The quest for energy: Competition and Cooperation between China and India

Energy security is of utmost strategic importance to China and India if they hope to continue to expand their economies, and both countries are increasingly forced to rely on the global oil market to meet their energy demands. By 2020, it is estimated that China and India combined will account for roughly one-third of the world’s GDP and, as such, will require vast amounts of energy to fuel their economies. The competition over energy resources is increasingly reported in the world’s media as a growing source of tension between the two countries. Empirically, however, both countries do cooperate with each other occasionally during their quest for energy at the global level. What energy policies are these countries pursuing? Why do the two countries cooperate while competing fiercely with each other? What are the implications for geopolitics and the global governance of climate change? A panel discussion with:

Sir Chris Llwellyn-Smith, Director of Energy Research, and Visiting Professor of Physics, Oxford

John V. Mitchell, Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment, and Resources, Chatham House

Fuzuo Wu, Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow, GEG

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