Energy security through a financial lens: Rethinking geopolitics, strategic investment, and governance in China’s global energy expansion

Central Asia has gained extraordinary importance in recent years in the framework of global energy security. China is the most significant example of a power that looks to its periphery as a viable option for energy supply. In Central Asia, Chinese companies are dynamic players having even broken the long Soviet and Russian monopoly over regional pipelines. This chapter examines the importance of the region within China's energy security, while not overlooking the potential contribution of the China-Pakistan economic corridor in the energy transit. In addition, Central Asia is likely to help China reduce the energy deficit in Xinjiang, through the import of hydroelectricity generated in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Although Central Asia's contribution to global energy security is low, it matters in a context of energy diversification, in which China's One Belt One Road brought a more promising dynamics to the cooperation between Beijing and Central Asian countries.

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Lessons Learned for Regional and Global Energy Security

Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security ◽

10.1002/9780470087923.hhs099 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Yaroslav Minullin ◽

Leo Schrattenholzer

Keyword(s):

Energy Security ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Global Energy

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New Directions in Iranian Foreign Policy: Impact on Global Energy Security

Strategic Analysis ◽

10.1080/09700161.2014.895226 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 259-264

Author(s):

Chintamani Mahapatra ◽

Shebonti Ray Dadwal

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Energy Security ◽

Policy Impact ◽

Global Energy ◽

New Directions

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Ensuring energy efficiency and ways to develop energy security

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202016411047 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 164 ◽

pp. 11047

Author(s):

Alexey Efimiev ◽

Olga Kutsygina ◽

Margarita Agafonova ◽

Andrei Chugunov

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Energy Security ◽

Global Economy ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Electricity Consumption ◽

Energy Markets ◽

Energy Market ◽

Global Energy ◽

World Energy ◽

Fuel And Energy Sector

The paper assesses the relevant problems of the global energy paradigm, with emphasis on ensuring energy security. To solve this problem, the state and prospects of world energy markets and the forecast for their development are analyzed. The paper substantiates the importance of improving energy efficiency in Russia. It also analyzes and displays the most important aspects of global energy problems, highlights the dynamics of the global balance of energy consumption, analyzes the development of renewable energy sources. The study determined the place of fuel and energy sector in the global economy. Forecasts of global electricity consumption are presented. The paper focuses on the need for measures that contribute to overcoming energy threats in the global energy market.

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