Oil and gas in China [[electronic resource] ] : the new energy superpower's relations with its region / / Lim Tai Wei

• Autore: Lim Tai-Wei
• Pubblicazione: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.2/7280951
• Soggetto topico: Petroleum industry and trade - China
• Soggetto geografico: China Foreign economic relations; China Foreign relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acronyms, Initials, and Glossary; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; INTRODUCTION - BACKGROUND; POSSIBILITY OF CONFLICTS?; CHINA'S OIL NEEDS AND ASEAN; CHINA'S OIL NEEDS AND NORTHEAST ASIA; MARITIME RESOURCES; RENEWING OLD ENERGY RESOURCES; ISSUES TO BE EXAMINED; CHAPTER 2 The Emergence of the Chinese Oil Industry in Northeast Asia - Transition from Japan (1978 Daqing Crude Trade) to Russian Oil Relations (Sino-Russian Oil Communiqués 2002/3); INTRODUCTION; SINO-JAPANESE OIL RELATIONS; The Background; Factors that Superseded Sino-Japanese Oil Diplomacy ; Higher Valued-Added Economic TiesJapanese Domestic Priorities; The Transition to Russian Oil Diplomacy; Why and How the Chinese Oil Diplomacy Refocused from Japan to Russia?; Chinese Domestic Factors; Domestic Japanese Factors; Why Russia Then?; SINO-RUSSIAN OIL RELATIONS; PROBLEMS IN SINO-RUSSIAN OIL DIPLOMACY; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 3 The Emergence of the Chinese Oil Industry in Southeast Asia: China-ASEAN Sub-Regionalism - Pan Pearl River Delta (PPRD) Regionalism and Cooperation in Oil; ENERGY; Backdrop; China Reaches out to the ASEAN Mekong States; PPRD ; China's Increasing Need for Southeast Asian Energy - China Reaches Out to PPRD States in the Oil ResourceASEAN Energy Supply and Projects in the Pipeline; The Myanmar Equation - Charm Diplomacy; The Thai Connection; UTILIZING THE MEKONG; Reaching Out to Oil-Rich Brunei; Cambodia - The New Indo-Chinese Frontier; ECONOMIC MUTUALISM; The Case Study of Malaysia; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 4 The Emergence of the Chinese Oil Industry and Potential Flashpoints?; SENKAKU AS A CASE STUDY; CHUNXIAO; SPORADIC TENSIONS TO NAVAL CONFLICT?; NAVAL ARMS RACE?; JAPAN'S DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS ; MARITIME DISPUTES WITH SOUTHEAST ASIALIMITING MARITIME CONFLICTS; MUTUAL INTERESTS IN THE ISSUE OF PIRACY; CHAPTER 5 Seeking Energy Security: Cooperation and Competition between China, Japan, and India; POSSIBLE CONFLICT OF INTERESTS AND AREAS OF COOPERATION; Sino-Indian; India-Japan; Offshore Resources; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 6 Year 2004: China's Landmark Energy Crisis; APPENDIX A; CHAPTER 7 The New Energy Superpower's Internal Debates: Development or Environmentalism?; POST-INDUSTRIALISM; CHAPTER 8 Conclusion - Alternative Energy Trends, Conservation, and Renewing Old Resources?; Bibliography ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book looks at the emergence of China as a major importer and consumer of energy as well as examines contemporary issues within the Chinese oil industry. As China benefits from globalization, what is the impact on China's relations with countries in its neighbouring region when it seeks more oil importation from overseas sources? China's industrial growth in the Pan Pearl River Delta Region is outstripping its oil supply and China is turning to the ASEAN countries connected to its Pearl River tributaries to form a Pan region that acts both as a conduit for oil supply from other sources as
• Titolo autorizzato: Oil and gas in China
• ISBN: 1-282-75843-8; 9786612758430; 981-4277-95-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780893203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series on contemporary China ; ; v. 21.