The Economics and Politics of China’s Energy Security Transition

The Economics and Politics of China’s Energy Security Transition clarifies China’s energy and foreign policies through a comprehensive examination of energy sources, providing an insider’s unique perspective for assessing China’s energy policies. China’s historic decline in coal consumption since 2013-2014 and a plateauing of its carbon dioxide emissions have given China an unprecedented opportunity to decarbonize while growing its economy. In response to global questions about China’s institutional, administrative, and political challenges and risks, this book provides the answers that everyone is asking.

• Provides a rare assessment of China’s energy policies and reveals insights into the Chinese government
• Devotes attention to issues of global energy governance and energy sanctions
• Includes data and reference content suitable for researchers in economics, sustainability, energy policy, geopolitics and political science

Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals working in energy economics and in China economics studies

1. Will Resources Be Exhausted?-“Infinite” Supply of Finite Resources
   2. “Resource War”: Will Mankind Fight for Resources?
   3. Resource Contention: Resource Control or Market Competition?
   4. Energy Crisis: “Natural Disaster” and “Man-Made Calamity”
   5. Energy Security: From Energy Independence to Energy Interdependence
   6. Energy Diplomacy: From “Bilateral Diplomacy” to “Global Energy Governance”
   7. Energy: The “Achilles’ Heel” of China?
   8. Overseas Investment: “Going-Out” Not Equal to “Taking-Back”
   9. Maritime Transportation Security: “Malacca Dilemma” and “Strings of Pearls”
   10. “China Energy Threat Theory”: Strategic Mutual Suspicion and Interaction
   11. China’s Energy Strategy: From “Self-Reliance” to “Energy Revolution”
   12. Climate Change and Sustainable Development
   13. International Energy Transformation: Bright Future and Tortuous Road
   14. “Beautiful China”: “Chinese Dream” of Green Development