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China's rapid development has drawn worldwide attention and has been referred to as a "peaceful rise" in recent years. The country's booming economy feeds Beijing's insatiable thirst for sufficient, stable, and secure energy sources. This article argues that Iran's plentiful oil reserves and its capacity to produce and export vast quantities of oil make Tehran a natural partner as China pursues its goal of rising to global‐power status. Furthermore, Iran's location on the "Energy Silk Road" to China is potentially of great significance for Beijing as it seeks to break out of the "Malacca predicament." This article suggests that China sees an important role for Iran in securing its oil supply and pursuing a "westward oil strategy." The article also demonstrates that China's energy ties with Iran are constrained and conditioned by Sino‐U.S. cooperation and competition and by the Middle Eastern power structure.

China's rapid development has drawn worldwide attention and has been referred to as a 'peaceful rise' in recent years. The country's booming economy feeds Beijing's insatiable thirst for sufficient, stable, and secure energy sources. This article argues that Iran's plentiful oil reserves and its capacity to produce and export vast quantities of oil make Tehran a natural partner as China pursues its goal of rising to global-power status. Furthermore, Iran's location on the 'Energy Silk Road' to China is potentially of great significance for Beijing as it seeks to break out of the 'Malacca predicament.' This article suggests that China sees an important role for Iran in securing its oil supply and pursuing a 'westward oil strategy.' The article also demonstrates that China's energy ties with Iran are constrained and conditioned by Sino-U.S. cooperation and competition and by the Middle Eastern power structure. Adapted from the source document.

The family is an important agent of political socialization. Parents are undoubtedly the primary source of a child's political learning. Political values, like genes, are transmitted from parents to children. Not only do individuals acquire political values & attitudes from their parents, but at the same time the political system is also sustained & developed. This paper investigates the content of political attitudes & values that elementary school students acquire in the socialization environment of the family, measures the extent of correspondence in parent-child political attitudes & values, & examines aspects of family structure that conceivably affect transmission flows. The preliminary findings of this paper are that elementary school students in Taiwan already possess attitudes regarding the political world. The rate of parent-child agreement, measured in 11 sets of variables reflecting political attitudes & values, ranged from 22.87% to 56.93% -- of which only one set was less than 30%. In regard to the correlation of correspondence, the chi-square test of national identity, national loyalty, & party preference all held statistical significance. With the exception of majority rule & sense of political efficacy (which both had less correlation of agreement), the other six sets of variables of democratic attitudes & values all held at least a 0.05 tau-b coefficient. Additionally, in comparing the six familial socialization factors of correspondence in parent-child political attitudes & values, we find that the familial politicization factor was the most influential socialization factor. In total, out of 48 tau-b correlation coefficient tests of eight sets of variables of democratic values & attitudes, there are 39 tests that had statistical relations with tau-b coefficient above 0.05. Therefore, this research demonstrates that in the political learning of children in Taiwan, political attitudes & values are indeed transmitted from parents to children. 13 Tables, 1 Appendix. Adapted from the source document.