Energy, security and economic development in East Asia

Book · Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5249776

Keith, R

Politics plays a supremely important role in the energy supply of the countries of East Asia. The USSR and the People's Republic of China (PRC) are the two greatest suppliers of energy in the region-whilst the strong industrial economies of Japan, Taiwan and Korea are energy-deficient. These simple facts give rise to extraordinarily complex and often delicate political situations. China, for example supplies oil to Japan and imports Japanese technology and thereby manipulates Japan's relationship with the USSR. The Chinese capacity to generate energy surplus to its own developing domestic economic needs may also have a significant impact on the availability of new options for the energy supply of the Taiwanese and Korean economies. Taking the energy politics of the USSR and the PRC as its starting point this book goes on to consider the economic and political dilemmas of each of the major industrialised nations in the region. The authors also address wider issues such as the zoning of the South China Sea and the United States' perspective on the development of this region.

• OSTI ID: 5249776
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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