April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 41m
English
It should be clear from each of the previous examples just how far China will go to ensure its energy security. To end this chapter, it is useful to reflect on how China’s growing oil appetite might also put it into conflict with several of its key Asian neighbors. One such conflict is taking place in the South China Sea over oil reserves beneath the contested Spratly and Paracel island chains.
Just when it seemed China and Vietnam had buried their conflicting claims to the Spratly Islands, Beijing is contesting a new Hanoi-tendered, BP-led, U.S. $2 billion natural-gas project near the rocky group of islands and reefs in the South China Sea. The flare-up ...
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