1. Energy Interests and Alliances: China, America and Africa
- Author:
- Danila Bochkarev, Angelica Austin, and Willem van der Geest
- Publication Date:
- 08-2008
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- EastWest Institute
- Abstract:
- In the strategic policy communities of both the United States and China, there has been a knee-jerk blurring between competition in commerce between U.S. and Chinese energy firms and the potential for strategic competition by one country to deny resources to the other. A senior State Department official has described this sort of reaction as “exaggerated”. But the suspicion is there and it is ill-founded. It serves the interests of neither country. On the contrary, as this EWI Policy Paper suggests, energy security can become a rallying point in an otherwise difficult relationship. The two countries are now intensifying their interest and activities not just in each other's domestic energy sector but also in each other's role in a system of global energy security.
- Topic:
- Emerging Markets, Energy Policy, Political Economy, and Treaties and Agreements
- Political Geography:
- Africa, United States, and China