Pragmatic Power: How China's Energy Security Drives Its Foreign Policy Strategy
プラグマティック・パワー：中国のエネルギー安全保障が対外政策をどう動かすか (AI 翻訳)
Olivia Pfaff
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日本語
中国は世界最大のエネルギー消費国であり、石油の約72%を輸入し、一次エネルギー供給の80%以上を化石燃料に依存している。本論文は、この構造的なエネルギー安全保障の脆弱性が中国の二国間関係と地政学的戦略を形成することを分析する。ロシア、イラン、米国との関係を事例に、資源アクセスが外交政策の論理を支配していることを示し、再生可能エネルギーへの移行が既存のエネルギー協力に与える含意も考察する。
English
China's heavy reliance on fossil fuel imports (72% oil, 80%+ primary energy from fossil fuels) drives a pragmatic foreign policy focused on resource access. Through case studies of Russia, Iran, and the US, the paper argues that China's non-interference policy, Belt and Road Initiative, and energy transition are coherent expressions of energy-driven geopolitics. It also discusses the managed shift from coal to renewables and its implications for global partnerships.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本もエネルギー輸入依存度が高く、中国のエネルギー安全保障と地政学的な分析は、日本のGX政策や国際的なエネルギー協調を考える上で参考になる。
In the global GX context
This paper contributes to understanding how major economies' energy security concerns shape their foreign policy and energy transition strategies, relevant for global climate cooperation and energy geopolitics under frameworks like TCFD/ISSB.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:This paper provides a framework linking energy security to foreign policy and renewable transition, useful for scholars studying geopolitics of energy.
🏛政策担当者:This paper offers insights into how energy security objectives can drive foreign policy, relevant for policymakers designing energy transition strategies.
📄 Abstract（原文）
China is the world's largest energy consumer, importing approximately 72% of its oil and relying on fossil fuels for over 80% of its primary energy supply. This structural dependency on physical energy resources — coal, oil, natural gas, and an expanding renewable portfolio — creates fundamental vulnerabilities in China's energy security that directly shape its bilateral relationships and geopolitical strategy. This paper examines how China's physical energy demands and supply chain dependencies drive its foreign policy decisions, analysing three bilateral case studies — China's energy relationships with Russia, Iran, and the United States — through a pragmatic energy security framework. The analysis demonstrates that China's engagement with energy suppliers is governed by the logic of resource access over ideological alignment: its non-interference policy, strategic use of the Belt and Road Initiative as an energy infrastructure instrument, and pivot away from the United States are all coherent expressions of an energy-driven foreign policy logic. Drawing on China's Five-Year Plans, renewable energy legislation, and fossil fuel import data, the paper further examines China's managed transition from coal dependency towards renewable energy, and the implications of that transition for its existing energy partnerships. The paper contributes to the scholarly debate on the relationship between physical resource dependency, energy infrastructure, and state behaviour, offering a case-study-grounded argument that energy security has become the organising principle of China's contemporary geopolitical strategy.
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