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China's energy security: Domestic and international issues

2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 48; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00396330600594322

1468-2699

Daojiong Zha,

Global Energy Security and Policy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. A. Doak Barnett, China's Economy in Global Perspective (Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1981), p. 461. 2. Tian Chunrong, ‘Analysis of Oil Import and Export in 2000’, International Petroleum Economics, March 2001, p. 6 (original in Chinese). 3. Erika Downs, China's Quest for Energy Security (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2000), pp. 22–3. 4. Development Research Center of the State Council, China's National Energy Strategy and Policy 2000–2020, 2003, available at http://www.efchina.org/documents/Draft_Natl_E_Plan0311.pdf. 5. For this distinction, see Dennis O’Brien, ‘Mightier than the Sword’, Harvard International Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Summer 1997, pp. 8–13. 6. Zha Daojiong, ‘Interdependence and China's Energy Supply Security’, World Economics and Politics, no. 298, June 2005, pp. 15–21 (in Chinese). 7. See for example Amy Myers Jaffe and Steven W. Lewis, ‘Beijing's Oil Diplomacy’, Survival, vol. 44, no. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 115–33. 8. ‘China Oil Giant Dealt a Setback’, New York Times, 13 May 2003, p. C9. 9. Guo Sizhi, Oil Refining Business in China, Japan Energy Economics Institute, May 2005, available at http://eneken.ieej.or.jp/en/data/pdf/285.pdf. 10. Toshi Yoshihara and Richard Sokolsky, ‘The United States and China in the Persian Gulf: Challenges and Opportunities’, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Winter/Spring 2002, pp. 69–75. 11. Jin Liangxiang, ‘Energy First: China and the Middle East’, Middle East Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring 2005, available at http://www.meforum.org/article/694. 12. Steven R. Weisman, ‘U.S. to Broaden India's Access To Nuclear-Power Technology’, New York Times, 19 July 2005, p. A1. 13. Borzou Daragahi, ‘China Goes Beyond Oil in Forging Ties to Persian Gulf’, New York Times, 13 January 2005, p. C8; Howard W. French, ‘China in Africa: All Trade, With No Political Baggage’, New York Times , 8 August 2004, p. 1. 14. Off-the-record interviews reveal that only a small fraction of CNPC's Sudanese oil production gets transported back to China, due to its high sulphur level. The bulk is sold in the international market. Author interview with a CNPC researcher, Beijing, 10 July 2005. 15. Bernard Wysocki, Jr and Jacob M. Schlesinger, ‘For U.S., China Is a Replay of Japan; Washington Sees Parallels To ‘80s Battles With Tokyo, But Oil Changes the Stakes’, Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2005, p. A2. 16. See Chris Alden, ‘China in Africa’, Survival, vol. 47, no. 3, Autumn 2005, pp. 147–64. 17. Karby Leggett, ‘Staking a Claim: China Flexes Economic Muscle Throughout Burgeoning Africa; Beijing Forges Deep Alliances With War-Torn Nations, Countering U.S. Influence; A Dam Gets Built on the Nile’, Wall Street Journal, 29 March 2005, p. A1. 18. Such difficulties are partially discussed in Zha Daojiong, ‘Changes in China's Electricity Industry Governance: Implications for Energy Cooperation in Northeast Asia’, ERINA Report, no. 42, October 2001, pp. 31–7. 19. Pan Wei’er, ‘A Discussion about Our Country's Energy Management System’, China Energy, September 2002, pp. 9–12. (in Chinese) 20. Jonathan E. Sinton, et al., Evaluation of China's Energy Strategy Options, May, 2005, p. 4, available at http://china.lbl.gov/publications/nesp.pdf. 21. Philip Andrews-Speed, Energy Policy and Regulation in the People's Republic of China (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004). 22. ‘China's Nuclear Electricity to Hit 36 mln kw in 2020’, People's Daily, available at http://english.people.com.cn/200409/01/eng20040901_155568.html. 23. See International Energy Agency (IEA), Coal in the Energy Supply of China (Paris: IEA, 1999). 24. For an overview of China's environmental challenge, see The World Bank, Clear Water, Blue Skies: China's Environment in the New Century (Washington DC: The World Bank, 1997). 25. Liu Aihong, ‘How about Levying Fuel Tax instead of Road Tax?’, Liaowang, no. 37, September 1996, pp. 22–3 (original in Chinese). Additional informationNotes on contributorsZha DaojiongZha Daojiong is Director, Center for International Energy Security, School of International Studies, Renmin University of China.