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China’s Oil Diplomacy is it a global threat.pdf
Third World Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2007, pp 519 – 537
China’s Oil Diplomacy: is it a global
security threat?
HONGYI HARRY LAI
ABSTRACT China is now the world’s second largest oil consuming nation.
China’s external quest for oil has thus generated much attention and is believed
by many to destabilise the world order. This article attempts to provide an
overview of China’s external initiatives for satisfying domestic oil demands and
to examine the implications of China’s oil diplomacy on regional and global
political stability. The article suggests that China has taken three steps to
satisfy its growing domestic demand for oil—expanding overseas oil supplies
from the Middle East, diversifying its importing sources by reaching out to
Africa, Russia, Central Asia and the Americas, and securing oil transport
routes. This article argues that China’s oil diplomacy strengthens its ties with
oil-producing nations and complicates those with oil-importing nations.
Nevertheless, contrary to pessimistic predictions, China’s oil diplomacy has
neither upset the USA’s fundamental policies towards Iraq and Iran, nor has it
generated armed clashes in the South China Sea. China has largely
accommodated the USA in these areas and has forged joint efforts in energy
exploration with its Asian neighbours, except for Japan. China’s benign oil
diplomacy can be explained by the minor role of oil imports in its energy
consumption and, more importantly, by China’s peaceful-rise strategy.
Oil has long been viewed as a strategic resource for nations. China is now the
world’s second largest oil-consuming nation. Its global efforts to secure oil
imports have profound implications for international relations in the Asia –
Pacific. China’s rising oil demand and its
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