- ‘‘Taiwan Reportedly Tests Missiles Capable of Hitting Shanghai, Hong Kong,’’
Associated Press, March 6, 2007. - Chris Buckley and Ralph Jennings, ‘‘China Slams Independence Talk from Taiwan,’’
Reuters, March 5, 2007. - For a pithy explanation of the importance of Taiwanese self-defense, see Holmes,
‘‘‘Assassin’s Mace’ Is the PRC’s Key in New Race.’’ - Euan Graham,Japan’s Sea Lane Security, 1940–2004: A Matter of Life and Death?
(New York: Routledge, 2006). - Ibid.
- Peng and Yao,The Science of Military Strategy,67.
- Liu, ‘‘Theory of the Command of the Sea.’’
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The views set forth here are the author’s alone.
- Luo Ping, ‘‘National Oil, Nationally Hauled: China’s Energy Security Insurance Line’’
[Guoyou Guoyun: Zhongguo Nengyuan de Anquan Baozhang Xian],Maritime China,February
2005, 38–40. - ‘‘Hu Calls for Strong Navy’’; ‘‘Chinese President Calls for Strengthened, Modernized
Navy’’; ‘‘Chinese President Calls for Strong Navy’’; Lague, ‘‘China Airs Ambitions.’’ - See Information Office of the State Council,China’s National Defense in 2006.
- Li Jie, ‘‘China’s Oil Demands and Sea Lane Security’’ [Shiyou, Zhongguo Xuyao yu
Haidao Anquan],Jianquan Zhishi,September 2004, 10–13. - Wu Lei and Shen Qinyu, ‘‘Will China Go to War over Oil?’’Far Eastern Economic
Review169, no. 3 (April 2006): 38. - Qiao Enyan, ‘‘Petroleum Enterprises and Their Use in National Oil Security Strategy’’
[Shiyou Qiye zai Guojia Shiyou Anquan Zhanlue Zhong de Zuoyong],Modern Chemical Industry,
July 2005, 9–12. - Ibid.
- Yang Mingjie, ed.,Sea Lane Security and International Cooperation,(Beijing: Current
Affairs Publishing House, 2005), 123. - Luo Ping, ‘‘National Oil, Nationally Hauled,’’ 38–40.
- Ibid.
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for Economic Cooperation and Development, December 15, 2006, http://www.oecd.org/
dataoecd/18/38/37881499.pdf. - Li Shaojun, ‘‘Mahan’sSea Powerand its Influence on China’s Oil Security Strategy’’
[Lun Haichuan dui Zhongguo Shiyou Anquan de Yinxiang],International Forum6, no. 4
(July 2004): 16–20. - Chen Angang, ‘‘Malacca: America’s Coveted Strategic Outpost’’ [Malike Haixia: Mei-
guo Jiyu de Zhanlue Qianshao],Modern Ships[Xiandai Jianchuan], December 2004, 11–14. - Japan’s interest in the Indian Ocean stems from the fact that most of its oil imports
must also transit the Malacca Strait. - ‘‘China Gives Green Light to Myanmar Oil Pipeline,’’ Agence France Presse, April 18,
2006, http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/chinainstitute/nav03.cfm?nav03=45306&
nav02=43617&nav01=43092. - Yang,Sea Lane Security and International Cooperation,106.
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