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Introduction -- 1 State-Managed Marketization Approach and Role Compatibility: A Theoretical Framework -- 2 Energy Security: Perceptions and Realities -- 3 Institutional Reform in the Lens of State-Managed Marketization Approach -- 4 Energy Policies from the Angle of State-Managed Marketization Approach -- 5 Use of State-Managed Marketization Approach in Domestic Market -- 6 Foreign Energy Quest in the Lens of State-Managed Marketization Approach -- 7 Use of State-Managed Marketization Approach in Foreign Market -- 8 Is China's Approach to Energy Security Distinctive? Comparative Analysis with the US and India -- 9 State-Managed Marketization Approach and State-SOEs-Market Relations -- Conclusion. .

Southeast Asia has sat atop China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI). By and large, most Southeast Asian countries hailed China's MSRI, but their responses to it have some variances. The article aims to analyze why they have differing responses. It contends that the primary determinant is changing domestic politics, specifically, ruling elites' policy priority, degree of trust of China, leaders' ideology and preference, and social response. While rejecting the impact of trade imbalance and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from China, the influence of the South China Sea dispute and America's Asia policy have been partially verified. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

The implementation of a free trade area between China and ASEAN has enhanced economic links between them. In spite of this, China's Southeast Asian neighbours still have strong strategic misgivings about the country's growth in wealth and power. China's energy rise, in the form of surging demands and an expanding presence, has added a new ingredient in Sino-Southeast Asian relations. From the combined perspectives of both economic mercantilism and economic liberalism, this article analyses the implications of China's energy rise on its Southeast Asian neighbours, and the doubts and debates that surround them. Such impacts arguably are mixed, and the more important aspect of such impacts arises not from China's surging demand per se, but rather from the policies it created to deal with it. (China/GIGA)

AbstractIn recent years China's national oil companies (NOCs) have proactively ventured abroad to look for more fossil fuel supply. Despite the divided views on their foreign energy quest, previous studies tend to consider the Chinese government and its NOCs to be a monolithic organism, and explicitly or implicitly presuppose that the Chinese NOCs' foreign energy quest could enhance China's energy security. This is, however, an untested hypothesis. To fill the gap, this article assesses the impact of Chinese NOCs' foreign energy quest on the country's energy security. Findings show that the Chinese NOCs have made some progress in their foreign energy quest, which contributes to their coffers and reserves, but that does not mean that China's energy security is greatly enhanced; in particular, the diversity and reliability of China's foreign oil sources are questionable.