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Southern California International Review, 2022
China has faced multiple milestone challenges in recent years. With U.S.-China decoupling underwa... more China has faced multiple milestone challenges in recent years. With U.S.-China decoupling underway and ambitious domestic energy transition goals, this paper looks at how China is tackling these two dynamic challenges at once, looking to liquified natural gas (LNG) as a proxy for China's strategic change. LNG is key to Beijing's energy transition goals, with China being the largest LNG importer in the world. However, most of Beijing's current LNG sources are from China-unfriendly exporters (Australia) and shipping routes (South China Sea). This paper finds that China is diversifying its current energy portfolio, shifting its focus from offshore gas imports to more secure, onshore gas pipelines from its Eurasian neighbors, particularly in Central Asia and Russia. Gas deals are key in many of China's signature Belt-Road Initiatives, where, through closer intertwining of salient infrastructure, China is looking to Eurasian regionalism to balance the U.S.-hegemony and engage with its domestic energy transition goals. These tropes are met with enthusiasm from its counterparts in Central Asia and Moscow, who have either been neglected from the U.S. sphere of influence or antagonized since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Apollon Undergraduate Journal, 2022
This article looks at how Romans had diets similar in nutritional function and aesthetic form to ... more This article looks at how Romans had diets similar in nutritional function and aesthetic form to modern cosmopolitan societies. Most citizens had regular access to a well-balanced diet containing a variety of foods like fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, and grain, cooked with exotic spices such as Indian black pepper that was regularly affordable to the masses. The difference between the culinary condition of the classes was rather, in form than in function, similar to contemporary post-industrial revolution class societies. Here, elites distinguished themselves through the aesthetic value of food, rather than function.
Southern California International Review, 2022
China has faced multiple milestone challenges in recent years. With U.S.-China decoupling underwa... more China has faced multiple milestone challenges in recent years. With U.S.-China decoupling underway and ambitious domestic energy transition goals, this paper looks at how China is tackling these two dynamic challenges at once, looking to liquified natural gas (LNG) as a proxy for China's strategic change. LNG is key to Beijing's energy transition goals, with China being the largest LNG importer in the world. However, most of Beijing's current LNG sources are from China-unfriendly exporters (Australia) and shipping routes (South China Sea). This paper finds that China is diversifying its current energy portfolio, shifting its focus from offshore gas imports to more secure, onshore gas pipelines from its Eurasian neighbors, particularly in Central Asia and Russia. Gas deals are key in many of China's signature Belt-Road Initiatives, where, through closer intertwining of salient infrastructure, China is looking to Eurasian regionalism to balance the U.S.-hegemony and engage with its domestic energy transition goals. These tropes are met with enthusiasm from its counterparts in Central Asia and Moscow, who have either been neglected from the U.S. sphere of influence or antagonized since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Apollon Undergraduate Journal, 2022
This article looks at how Romans had diets similar in nutritional function and aesthetic form to ... more This article looks at how Romans had diets similar in nutritional function and aesthetic form to modern cosmopolitan societies. Most citizens had regular access to a well-balanced diet containing a variety of foods like fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, and grain, cooked with exotic spices such as Indian black pepper that was regularly affordable to the masses. The difference between the culinary condition of the classes was rather, in form than in function, similar to contemporary post-industrial revolution class societies. Here, elites distinguished themselves through the aesthetic value of food, rather than function.