Powering The Future: Sino-Arab Relations And Global Energy Security (Geopolitics)

Powering the Future opens a wide-angle lens on China's emerging partnership with the Arab oil states, a relationship moving almost silently under the public radar. The book asks how the modern tide of crude and liquefied gas is refashioning the balance sheet of global energy and, in a larger sense, the balance of power itself. Quietly, almost on the same schedule as the country's breakneck industrial expansion, China has climbed to the top of the import league table, pulling in tankers and ...