http://www.erasmusenergy.com en-us N/A dejong@kyos.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:49:09 CET 20 http://www.erasmusenergy.com/articles/102/1/China039s-Energy-Security-and-the-Taiwan-Factor/Page1.html Published in:
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China, the second largest energy importing country in the world is expected to exceed 100 million tones of oil import, i.e. about 35 percent of its domestic consumption by the end of the year 2004. Looking at this from a strategic platform, presents a frightening image about the rise of oil demand in Asia, with the major oil consumers in the region drawing notable quantity of the world oil production. Increase in demand for oil shows, other than the “economic growth”, a danger that has been haunting the import dependent countries in the post-Gulf War, post-Saddam period, i.e. a possible energy supply interruption due to the political volatility in the Middle East. While the major energy importers in the Asian region have been busy in diversification of the energy resources and making other attempts to secure energy supply, many political and economic interests of these countries have become less important. This shows how ‘energy security’ has become the prime concern in the national interest of any given import dependent country.]]> no@spam.com (J Nandakumar) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:28:09 CET http://www.erasmusenergy.com/articles/102/1/China039s-Energy-Security-and-the-Taiwan-Factor/Page1.html