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?

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