A Crisis is Looming: China's energy challenge in the eyes of university students

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 17, Issue 55, 2008, Pages 273-296

  Zweig, David ^a   Ye, Shulan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY USE;

ASIA; CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 42049118007     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: 14699400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670560701809510     Document Type: Article

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29. The hawkish position against Japan may have been generated because for Japan, we raised a specific foreign policy dispute, while for the US we asked about the broader principle of cooperation.
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