The exploration of China and Japan's foreign energy security strategy

Autor: Chun-Liang Kuo, 郭俊良
Rok vydání: 2016
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 104
Nowadays, both of China and Japan are net importer of oil. How to ensure security in oil supply is important for China and Japan, because petroleum supply-and-demand gap has been expending over the years, and oil still occupied high rate in energy consumption of Japan. However, there is the vulnerability in Chinese energy supply as the petroleum supply and demand get more and more increasing due to China’s rapid economic growth, and East Asia has led by the United States and Japan strategic alliance system. Besides, the growing demand of oil in China reflects not only its economic rise but also the increase of its national power. On the other hand, Japan has the same structure in region of East Asia. China's rising national strength is bound to be a threat for Japan. Japan would not like to see China becomes a hegemony, because there will be no country wants another powerful country to master them, or even to threaten its own safety. In the context of the perspective of structural realism, China's rise will inevitably lead changes in the power structure in East Asia. As a regional great power, Japan must respond to China’s revisionism. On the other hand, China faces the alliance between the United States and Japan in the East Asian region, with its oil supply sources mostly rely on principal fairway. Once the US-Japan-led coalition blockades channel, it would cause a huge impact on China and make China to take some actions to respond to this risk.
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