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A Southward Thrust for China's Energy Diplomacy in the South China Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Michael Richardson
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China and Vietnam have outlined new steps to resolve their long-running territorial disputes in the South China Sea in an effort to avert further conflict and put their relations on a steadier footing for the future. Although both countries are ruled by Communist parties and share extensive land and sea borders, they have had a tense relationship. But they now face political challenges at home as their export-oriented economies and investment slow under the impact of global financial turmoil and deepening recession. They have evidently decided to give primacy to strengthening bilateral party, trade and investment ties to offset the wider economic downturn.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 11 , November 2008 , e13
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Notes

1. China-Vietnam Joint Statement, 25 October 2008.

2. The directive.

3 The statement.

4. Asia's Energy Future, East-West Center, 2007, page 126.

5. World Energy Outlook 2007, International Energy Agency, page 325.

6. US Energy Information Administration, Country Analysis Briefs, South China Sea, March 2008, page 4 & 6.

7. BP Statistical Review of World Energy, June 2008, pages 6 & 23.

8. See text.