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Oil has long been viewed as a strategic resource for nations. China is now the world's second largest oil-consuming country after the U.S.. Its global efforts to secure oil imports to meet increasing domestic demand have profound implications for international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. China's rising oil demand and its external quest for oil have thus generated much attention. As China's overseas oil quest intensifies, will China clash with the U.S. and other western countries' interests in Africa, and how dose it look at this rivalry? Will China disrupt the U.S. and its allies' foreign policy and the world order? This article tries to provide an overview of China's initiatives in developing oil in Africa. It examines factors for Chinese oil companies going to Africa and China's oil strategy there. Finally, it argues that even though China's practices of energy diplomacy in Africa seem to undermine U.S. goals of isolating or punishing "rogue states", contrary to those pessimistic views, China has largely accommodated the U.S. and is willing to forge joint efforts with the U.S. in energy exploration in Africa.
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080461
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Japan is seeking to project its "soft power" through the allure of manga and anime in its public diplomacy. The production, diffusion and global consumption of manga and anime are driven by market forces and consumer tastes and not by the Japanese state. However, the latter is seeking to harness this popular culture to burnish Tokyo's international image. Despite the attractiveness of Japanese pop culture and other more traditional forms of public diplomacy, Tokyo's pursuit of "soft power" and a good international image is undermined by its failure to overcome its burden of history
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080462
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2007.
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Japanese women have been assigned to the private role of caretaker, but the Japanese government has made prominent efforts in constructing a "gender-equal" society during the past decade. This policy development has come under the context of falling birth rate. The Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society and the measures taken by the government so far still fall short from enforcing gender equality and do not affirm equality as a human right. Since the pursuit of gender equality is a means to boost the birth rate, when there is a contradiction between these two goals, the former will be conceded
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080463
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2007.
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This paper explores whether Taipei is an innovative city by critically examining Taipei's industrial and economic performance, developmental visions and spatial planning, as well as institutional settings and political contexts. With the aid of institutionalist perspective, the author argues that Taipei's innovative efforts are mostly policy innovation, rather than institutional innovation. The author also describes the institutional dynamics that have caused the lack of Taipei's institutional innovation. The case study of Taipei could be helpful in conducting comparative studies on urban innovation
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