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The India–China Energy Dialogues of 2006 and 2007A Report
Abstract
The Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) and the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi, together with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, conducted a two India-China dialogs on energy issues in New Delhi and in Shanghai. The dialogs discussed issues relating to world energy markets, the international oil and gas markets, rising oil prices, increased resource nationalism, increased overseas oil and gas equity initiatives, the emergence of new oil ties and concerns with safety of transit routes. Faced with such issues, China and India agreed to cooperate on various fronts, including joint searches for equity oil and gas, investment across the oil and gas supply chain in the two countries, investment in conventional and non-conventional energy, and the management of demand and promotion of environmentally friendly fuels.
... Their potential cooperation in the energy sector includes joint bidding, energy efficiency, clean and renewable energy, civil nuclear energy, downstream and upstream cooperation, transmission and city distribution of gas, multilateral energy frameworks, pipeline networking etc (Singh 2010). Although the progress of energy cooperation has been slow with some slippery slopes, their energy cooperation has been widely supported by the two governments and other actors such as company leaders and think thanks (Kumaraswamy 2007;Noronha and Sun 2008 ...
National identity and national interest are useful explanatory tools of explaining India-China relations. The thesis argues that the dynamics of national identity and national interest defined by the current international and domestic structures determine the formulation of their foreign policy strategies and thus their bilateral relations. In the current international structure and under the condition of globalization, their national identities as rising power and emerging power and their national interest of economic development have become dominant themes defining their international positions and guide the foreign policy-making in China and in India, which lay the ground for their cooperative approach towards each other. This explains their increasing cooperative behaviours in many issue areas. However, their identities as modern states and regional powers prescribe the importance of national security interest. In current international system, the realist understandings of self-help and balance of power are still dominant in the security related issues in their bilateral relations, and have spill-over effect on other issues. This explains competition part of their relations. Regarding the future of India-China relations, it concludes that the cooperation prospects of India-China relations should be wide and positive. However, still hampered by historical mistrust, India-China relations are moving at variable speeds, with some sections faster than the others, this will continue in the near future. The thesis suggests that both countries should continue to promote mutual understanding and practical cooperation in their relations. Both sides should consolidate the existing institutional mechanisms and explore the possibilities of new mechanisms, at the bilateral as well as multilateral level. Moreover, the leaderships of the two countries should take the initiative to foster a shared culture between them that is based on reciprocity and ideas of win-win. This is the fundamental path through which India and China can get out of their current strategic stasis and bring their relations to a new level.
As two Asian giants and rising power, the interactions between India and China have global significance. This book analyses the multifaceted and multi-layered character of Sino-Indian relations since the beginning of the 21st century in a period marked by cooperation and competition. Positioned in a social constructivist framework that emphasizes mutual perceptions and socialization, the book draws analytical leverage from two core concepts - national identity and national interest - to form the basis of the research inquiry. The author argues that the dynamics of national identity and national interest play an important role in determining their relations and shows how and why in the current international structure, including a context of accelerated globalization, their national identities as rising power and emerging power coupled with national interest of economic development have defined and directed their international positions and foreign policy-making. A unique approach to analysing Sino-Indian relations, this book is of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Politics and International Relations.
India's emergence of a great power has sensitized its regional neighbours to its growing role as a key security actor in an increasingly interdependent world. Both Australia and ASEAN now view India as a major player in the formulation and application of their own broad security agendas. This emerging trilateral compendium is particularly evident in such policy areas as maritime security, climate change, energy security, law enforcement, "good governance" and the politics of security institutions or "architectures". This book represents one of the first systematic efforts to consolidate these diverse but important concerns into an overarching framework for ascertaining and cross-comparing how these three entities are approaching these policy challenges, individually and collectively. It argues that the dynamics underlying their intensifying security relations are sufficiently important to conceptualize them as a distinct analytical framework that needs to be understood in the larger context of Asia-Pacific security politics. © 2009 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. All rights reserved.
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