Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Sino-US energy competition in resource rich states; PART I Conceptual frameworks; 1 Modelling 'resource diplomacy' under hegemony: the triangular nature of Sino-US energy relations; 2 China's energy needs and energy security; 3 US energy security strategy and China's energy diplomacy; PART II US and its allies; 4 Sweet and sour: Sino-Saudi crude collaboration and US-crippled hegemony; 5 Resourcing Sino-Australian relations
12 The case of Darfur: diplomacy under influence of Sino-US resource rivalry13 Resource diplomacy under hegemony: the peculiar case of Venezuela under the Bolivarian Revolution; 14 Conclusion: China's 'energy anxiety'; Index
6 The true north
strong and full of energy: China's resource diplomacy and Canada-US relationsPART III America's neutrals; 7 Angolan agency and Chinese and US oil politics, 1975-2014; 8 Triangular or parallel?: China's relations with Nigeria in the context of the US's ties with Abuja; 9 Perspectives and limits on Sino-US competition: the Kazakhstan case study; 10 The impact of Brazil's expanding hydrocarbon reserves on its relations with the US and the PRC; PART IV America's 'pariahs' and China's energy supply; 11 The US factor in Sino-Iranian energy relations