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China’s search for expanded, more reliable, and more sustainable sources of energy to fuel its development has become a major driver of China’s foreign relations. Beijing’s recent agreement to purchase Russian natural gas via a new Siberian pipeline and its use of drilling platforms to assert sovereignty claims in the South China Sea demonstrate that energy contracts, exploration and production have become primary goals and tools of Chinese foreign policy. The challenges and opportunities of China’s rise cannot be understood without expert appraisal of its energy needs and strategies – and consideration of alternative policy responses.

China and its periphery will be the focus of the second in the Wilson Center’s series on Regional and Global Energy Issues, which was launched in July with a public program on Russia, Ukraine and Energy Security. Programs held throughout 2014 and 2015 will present a comprehensive overview and deep regional and policy analyses of energy issues based on the framework of Energy and Security: Strategies for a World in Transition, a 2013 book published by the Wilson Center and Johns Hopkins University Press which is now in its second printing.