CIGS Working Paper Series No. 24-014E

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the country faced the threat of the U. [...] In the Energy White Paper (Agency for Natural Resources and Energy 2023) approved by the Cabinet in June 2023, the word "Taiwan" appears only in part in the explanation of statistics and in the overview of the energy situation in each country. [...] What will be done to prevent people from starving to death in the event of an extreme shortage of energy due to the disruption of sea lanes to Japan? The first thing that would happen with energy scarcity would be that the transportation of food to the big cities would be disrupted and the big cities would starve. [...] One of the reasons Japan marched into the Pacific in the first place was to seize oil resources in Indonesia and Malaysia in the south because of the U. [...] In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, the globalization of the economy has led to the pursuit of short-term profit-oriented procurement for coal, oil and gas.