China became a net oil importer in the mid-1990s, and it is now one of the largest oil importers in the world. Chinese national oil companies have been implementing the “going-out strategy” globally, investing in oil resources in Canada, Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, the Middle East, and Latin America. Consequently, in response to this resource activism in search of energy security, there has been an outpouring of books on China's oil relations with the world. Most of these books have been written from either a Chinese or an American perspective.
This volume, by contrast, focuses on Asian contemporary oil and gas issues from a Southeast Asian perspective, which is relatively unusual. The author of this volume, Lim Tai Wei, chose to focus on the East Asian region, in particular Russia, Japan, and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), countries that China cooperates and competes with...
