“China’s energy security strategy is working better than many expected. Not because China has escaped dependence, and not because it can control the Gulf. It cannot. Another prolonged Hormuz closure would still hurt China badly. But Beijing has bought itself time, flexibility and bargaining room. That is no small achievement, and it will surely continue to build on this success. While China has not escaped the Middle East, it has learned to live with the risk and to make that risk less strategically decisive.”
Andrea Ghiselli (T.wai & University of Exeter) is author of the article “China Has Not Escaped the Middle East. It Has Learned to Live with the Risk” for the The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.
Research Fellow
Andrea Ghiselli is a non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai, and serves as the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project. He is also a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Exeter.
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