China’s pursuit of overseas oil resources to meet its rapidly rising economic development has given rise to global concern about its intentions and the implications for the world energy market and global energy geopolitics. Yet, while security challenges posed by Chinese energy diplomacy have been well debated, most of the analyses have ignored the fact that China’s apparently unscrupulous search for oil resources is factually restrained by the fundamental principles of its strategic presumptions, which are based on the necessity to maintain a stable international and regional environment, reduce th
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