INFORMATION ABOUT THE MASTER'S THESIS
1. Student's full name: NGUYEN THI LOAN 2. Gender: Female
3. Date of birth: February 27, 1977
4. Place of birth: Thanh Hoa
5. Decision No. 2797/QD-XHNV-SDH dated December 28, 2012, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, recognizing the student's admission.
6. Changes in the training process:
(Note the types of changes and the corresponding times)
7. Thesis Title: China's Energy Diplomacy in the Early 21st Century
8. Major: International Relations; Code: 60310206
9. Scientific supervisor: Dr. Le Van My
Institute of Chinese Studies – Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
10. Summary of the thesis results:
This research paper clarifies three key aspects: China's energy security needs, current situation, and strategy; China's energy diplomacy strategy in the first decade of the 21st century; and China's energy diplomacy strategy for the next 10 years, along with its impacts on the region and Vietnam. The research results provide a comprehensive overview of China's energy diplomacy in the early 21st century.
Although China possesses abundant natural resources, its rapidly developing national economy in recent years has led to increasingly high energy consumption. Meanwhile, domestic supply cannot meet this growing demand. Besides coal and natural gas, oil is extremely important to China's development. Due to excessive energy extraction and consumption for economic development, China's energy resources are gradually depleting. Therefore, China has devised an energy security strategy that prioritizes domestic production and supports external investment. To compensate for the domestic energy shortage, China has been actively seeking external energy sources to ensure its "rise" through an "energy diplomacy" strategy. China is targeting neighboring countries such as Russia and countries in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and further afield, countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Energy diplomacy is a new direction in China's foreign policy, initiated by the fourth generation of Chinese leaders, headed by President Hu Jintao, and continued by the fifth generation led by President Xi Jinping. This represents a major strategic shift for China aimed at securing a stable energy supply from abroad, while simultaneously establishing and strengthening China's position on the international stage.
11. Practical applications:
Vietnam can learn from China's energy security strategy in formulating its own energy security policies.
12. Future research directions:
China's energy diplomacy is a topic that has been addressed to varying degrees in research in Vietnam, China, and around the world. However, to date, there has been no in-depth study on China's energy diplomacy in the early 21st century. Therefore, further research on this issue is needed.
13. Published works related to the thesis:
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: NGUYEN THI LOAN 2. Sex: Female
3. Date of birth: February 27, 1977 4. Place of birth: Thanh Hoa,Vietnam
5. Admission decision number: 2797/QD-XHNV-SDH, Dated 28thDecember 2012
6. Changes in academic process: .........................................................................................
(List the forms of change and corresponding times)
7. Official thesis title: China's energy diplomacy in the early years of the 21ststDANCE.
8. Major: International Relations 9. Code: 60310206
10. Supervisors: Le Van My, Dr – China Research Institute – Vietnam Social Sciences Institute
11. Summary of the findings of the thesis:
This thesis is divided into three parts: Needs, current situation and the energy security strategy of China; its strategy for energy diplomacy in the first decade of the 21ststcentury; its strategy for energy diplomacy in the next decade and its impacts on the region and Vietnam. This document provides the comprehensive examination of China's energy diplomacy in the early years of this century.
In spite of the fact that China owns abundant natural resources, owing to its dramatic economic growth in recent years, its energy consumption volume has been increasing. Meanwhile, its domestic supply could not satisfy its highly expending requirement of energy in the present. Besides coal and gas, oil is also very important to China's development. Due to over-exploitation and over-use of energy for its economic development, the energy supply in China has been running out. This leads China to establish a new energy security strategy which emphasizes the major role of the domestic supply and the supporting role of the external sources. China has been determinedly seeking for the external energy supplies to fuel its “rising” through its energy diplomacy in order to compensate for the shortage of its domestic capacity. China has been looking at its neighbors such as Russia and the Middle Asian nations, the Southeast Asia and the further distant regions like the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. The energy diplomacy is its new diplomatic approach initiated by its 4thgeneration of leadership under the Ex-President Hu Jintao and being continuously promoted by its 5thgeneration under the leadership of thePresidentXi Jinping. This is considered to be a significant strategic transformation of China to maintain its external energy supply sources as well as set up and improve its international status.
12. Practical applicability, if any: China's energy security strategy would be a good reference to Vietnam in making its energy security policy.
13. Further research directions, if any: To a certain extent, China's energy diplomacy has been mentioned more or less in some research works in Vietnam, China and around the world. However, up to date, there has not been any full-study of China's energy diplomacy in the early years of the 21stcentury. Therefore, it is necessary to further research it.
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