The rise of China and its energy supply
- Autores: Ignacio José García Sánchez
- Localización: Cuadernos de estrategia, ISSN 1697-6924, Nº. 166, 1, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Energy and Geostrategy 2014), ISBN 978-84-9781-976-3, págs. 221-288
- Idioma: inglés
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This chapter aims to go into one of the events with most geostrategic significance of the first half of this century that undoubtedly will shape the geopolitical future of its second half.
The international community follows and discusses in detail the plans and actions of the Chinese authorities to solve the �energy trilemma:
ensuring competitive energy supply, while providing universal access to energy and promoting environmental protection�, with a clearly marked target, �the Chinese dream�, the socio-economic welfare to the medium-level developed countries in 2049, the centenary of the foundation of the People�s Republic of China.
To achieve it, the Chinese government faces two basic challenges, economic continuous development and social unrest by environmental degradation.
Both have a common element, energy supply, thus becomes a key factor for the survival of the one party model, the Chinese Communist Party that requires the stability of an international scenario that must adapt and accept, peacefully, the appearance, to stay, of the new geopolitical giant.
This work intends to analyse this exciting geostrategic challenge, recognizing the limitations of space and time, but hoping to put into the geopolitical discussion one of those major events �bearers of the future� for the international relations.
