By Leo Lester (eds.)
This quantity is going past a standard research of Asia’s power relationships and explores the idea that strength kinfolk in Asia within the twenty first century should still strengthen mutual interdependence. traditional analyses of overseas strength family members rigidity the uneven nature of the hazards and prices of disruptions to strength flows. power providers (net exporters) are excited about the price of a patron taking a look in other places; power shoppers (net importers) are preoccupied with the prices linked to an interruption of provide. this attitude displays the present transactional nature of strength kin and is obviously saw within the strength dynamics among international locations within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the economies of Northeast Asia (NEA).
As the economies of either the GCC and NEA have enlarged there's under-recognized strength for a circulation clear of slender transactional family to broader, interdependent ones. This number of essays from best power, strategic, and fiscal coverage imagine tanks keen on how power kin are forming within the twenty first century bargains power students and coverage makers solutions to what those more and more shut relationships suggest for foreign politics and trade.
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432,000 bbl each year from 2000 to 2012. China’s weakening demand has contributed to falling oil prices. In general, lower crude oil costs may help the Chinese government realize its targeted annual growth rate of 7 percent despite sluggish foreign demand and inefficient investment. The trade relationship between China and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates [UAE]) can be traced back to the late 1970s when China significantly increased its demand for crude oil to launch its economic reform.
Research Questions This study examines the effects of oil price volatility on bilateral trade between China and the GCC to demonstrate their economic interdependence. For this purpose, we employ a dynamic panel estimator to identify different kinds of oil price shocks, using an annual data set that covers the six GCC countries from 1994 to 2014. The specific objectives are: 1. To identify the relationship of oil price shocks on bilateral trade in China-GCC from the view of structure of oil price volatility.
Trade routes have linked what is now the GCC to the NEA economies since prehistory. The ancient routes flowed out of the Red Sea, going south and west round the Horn of Africa, and east to the Indies and beyond. Seasonal winds blew the trade in silk, spices, and incense, enabling places like Yemen to emerge as major trading hubs. Land routes also began to stretch further north. In the East, routes emanating from present day Malaysia linked up with southern China and, later on, round to the Gulf.