Month: September 2012

Michael Klare on China’s resource hunger

  In this month’s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique, Michael Klare of Amherst College discusses a critical element of China’s foreign policy: its increasing dependence on foreign providers of resources such as oil and gas to underpin its spectacular economic growth. In a world of depleting resources, what are the implications for China’s future stability, and what does it mean for the often unstable regimes it does business with? To listen to the podcast, click here.