In recent years, China has emerged as the world's sixth largest oil producer and as Asia's largest oil exporter. As a result, attention has become increasingly focused on the prospects for the rapidly growing petroleum industry. Although much of this attention has been directed toward foreign involvement in the development of offshore resources, th

This book provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour. It draws together the various dimensions of China’s international energy strategy, and provides insights into the impact of this on China’s growing presence across the world.

This volume focuses on the establishment and development of China’s marine legal system in the context of the new law of the sea centered on the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which China ratified in 1996.

A road map for the novice researcher contemplating the broad field affected by and concerned with energy.