... from hindering its other policy objectives. For example, China is involved with energy investment in Chad, but Chad still maintains good diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Essentially, China’s interests are driven by market and resource considerations.2 Chinese involvement in Africa today...

... of the area directly hits Chinese trade and energy supplies, the diffusion of radical Islam and its connections with the separatist movements of the restive Xinjiang province might threaten the security of China from within. Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2011, Chinese internal academic...

.... Energy Resources and Chinese Global Influence China’s growing economy has required substantially increased energy resources. For example, from 1995 through 2003 China accounted for around 68 percent of the global increase in consumption of energy resources. China’s domestic energy...

... energy Chinese energy US energy world energy energy politics Copyright 2017 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2017 Gawdat Bahgat is professor of national security at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, DC. ...

... 1990s, Chinese oil com- panies have cemented large deals with producing states from Africa and the Middle East to Latin America.1 Whereas Russia seeks primarily to expand its energy output, China, like the United States, seeks more diverse energy sources to fuel the rapidly grow- ing Chinese...

... to China, a number of protocols and cooperation agreements were also signed between the two sides to promote, among other things, investment in tourism, real estate, telecommunications, energy, and finance. A particular Chinese interest was also expressed in the Greek infrastructure sector.4...

... Speed Railway, telecommunication infrastructure, infrastruc- ture projects in energy and mining sectors as well as through investments in a number of industries including automotive, machinery, electrical products, steel, and chemical industries. Turkey is willing to host even more Chinese...

.... eastern Mediterranean southern Europe rimland Turkey and energy Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Petros Vamvakas is associate professor of political science at Emmanuel College, Boston. Global Stability and the Geopolitical Vortex of the Eastern Mediterranean...

.... 6. Ruchir Sharma, “Broken BRICS: Why the Rest Stopped Rising,” Foreign Affairs (November-­ December 2012), www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138219/ruchir-sharma/broken-­ brics.­ 7. Li Wei, “China’s Future Energy Strategy” [in Chinese], People’s Daily, 12 February 2014. 100  Mediterranean...

... as the eye could see, interspersed with an occasional black government car. Today, of course, like Shanghai and so many other coastal Chinese coastal cities, Beijing is a modern metropolis with an abundance of new soaring skyscrapers, congested roadways, luxury consumer stores, and the bustling energy...

... allied 17. Terms such as deepening, improving, approach, and pivot are used in the text to describe the possible evolution of Greek- Russian and Greek- Chinese relations in strategic sectors such as secu- rity, defense, energy, and infrastructure. They highlight a desire to establish closer...

... recently, the center of nuclear and missile tests by the Chinese armed forces. With the escalation in China’s energy imports, the salience of this province as a strategic junction of international energy corridors has risen steeply in recent decades, a trend set to be reinforced by the forthcoming...

... withdrawn in the face of strong congressional opposition, which viewed the Chinese takeover of an American oil company as a threat to US energy security.26 25. Peter S. Goodman, “Cnooc Buys Oil Interest,” Washington Post, 10 January 2006. 26. Shai Oster, “Cnooc Shows Interest in Yukos,” Washington...

... with time and partnering with Russia in regional security and energy arrangements. China’s main concerns will be the long-term presence of a U.S. military base in Kyrgyzstan, not far from the Chinese border. Continued cooperation with China over monitoring of pan-Islamic groups may delay...

... that, if there are sanctions, [the Chinese] won’t be negatively affected.”48 Despite Washington’s promises, Beijing continued to oppose oil sanctions. Such sanc- tions would negatively impact its investment in the Iranian energy sector. Judging from past experience, US officials knew that China would drive a hard...

..., but this is done in order to address common Chinese and Indian concerns about the US military posture in the greater Middle East. They are also advanc- ing cooperation on matters of energy. India and Pakistan, too, are getting together in order to transport gas from Iran. Russia and China, inside...

... the accelerating regional competition to develop offshore energy resources; the related pursuit of major foreign investment for upstream energy development; consequences for regional gas export markets, notably the European Union; the influence of regional rivalries and conflicts on regional energy development...

... — an assessment that reinforced the arguments of critics of any military action against Iran but one that also came into question during the following weeks. The subsequent concern originated not only from advocates of a tougher, unilateral US action but also from the International Atomic Energy Agency...

... cancellation of the S-300 surface-to- air missile contract with Iran, Russia’s 2010 support for United Nations Secu- rity Council sanctions directed against Iran, and its ongoing efforts to bring Iran back to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) supervisory framework.1 Is this optimism...

... some of the key issues driving political wedges between Greece and its western partners, opening Greece up to Russian and Chinese machinations. Both essays amply demonstrate the deleterious effects to Europe and the West if a satisfactory resolution to the Greek debt crisis is not found quickly...