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Received: 2023/10/23 | Accepted: 2023/11/21 | Published: 2023/12/2
Received: 2023/10/23 | Accepted: 2023/11/21 | Published: 2023/12/2
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Keyvan H, Ranjbar Q, Souri H. An Analysis of China's Geopolitics and Energy Security in the Persian Gulf Region. GeoRes 2023; 38 (4) :523-531
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1- Department of Political Science and International Relations, Research and Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Political Science, Farabi University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Political Science, Farabi University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
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Aims: Energy geopolitics is a prominent sphere of competition that exerts a crucial and decisive influence on China's foreign policy. Within the diverse geographical regions of the world, the geopolitical domain encompassing the Persian Gulf has engendered substantial geopolitical pursuits among various actors due to its abundant reservoirs of oil and gas. In light of this circumstance, China, as a global hegemon, has delineated significant interests in this region for itself, deeming it necessary to augment and safeguard them all. In the context of this descriptive-analytical inquiry, the endeavor was made to scrutinize China's energy geopolitical interests and the objectives of this nation in protecting these interests, alongside the ramifications of geopolitical energy strategies in the Persian Gulf region on different actors, employing the approaches that govern the knowledge of political geography.
Conclusion: The establishment of collaboration among the nations situated in the Persian Gulf and China has emerged as the fundamental basis for the augmentation of China's economic and political sway in the region, thereby posing a threat to the national interests of the United States. The economic influence of China possesses the potential to render the competition between the two nations more intricate in the geopolitical dynamics. Consequently, within this process, any nation that can skillfully exploit the prevailing circumstances governing the rivalry between China and the United States through the utilization of multilateral diplomacy appears to be capable of reaping the utmost advantages for itself.
Conclusion: The establishment of collaboration among the nations situated in the Persian Gulf and China has emerged as the fundamental basis for the augmentation of China's economic and political sway in the region, thereby posing a threat to the national interests of the United States. The economic influence of China possesses the potential to render the competition between the two nations more intricate in the geopolitical dynamics. Consequently, within this process, any nation that can skillfully exploit the prevailing circumstances governing the rivalry between China and the United States through the utilization of multilateral diplomacy appears to be capable of reaping the utmost advantages for itself.
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