China-U.S. Oil Rivalry in Africa

Authors

  • Zhao Hong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v26i2.2240

Keywords:

China, oil strategy, African oil, U.S., energy rivalry

Abstract

China is now the world’s second largest oil-consuming country after the U.S. Its global efforts to secure oil imports to meet increasing domestic demand have profound implications for international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. China’s rising oil demand and its external quest for oil have thus generated much attention. This paper looks at the possibility of China’s clash with the U.S. and other western countries’ interests in Africa as China’s overseas oil quest intensifies, and China’s perception of this impending rivalry that may lead to a disruption of the U.S. and its allies’ foreign policy and the world order.

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Published

2008-12-18

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