Since the beginning of the 21st century, China's energy diplomacy has been expanding rapidly and the country is searching for energy resources worldwide. This movement has not only improved China's energy security and international relations, but also enabled the Chinese national oil companies (NOCs) to access new investment markets and implement development strategies. The Chinese government and the NOCs need each other's support to realise their respective interests. The interaction between the government and the NOCs will have a critical influence on China's energy diplomacy. The Domestic...

This book provides a series of systematic theoretical results and numerical solution algorithms for dynamic optimization problems of switched systems within infinite-dimensional inequality path constraints. Dynamic optimization of path-constrained switched systems is a challenging task due to the complexity from seeking the best combinatorial optimization among the system input, switch times and switching sequences. Meanwhile, to ensure safety and guarantee product quality, path constraints are required to be rigorously satisfied (i.e., at an infinite number of time points) within a finite...

In diesem Buch wird untersucht, wie die Kommunistische Partei Chinas (KPCh) versucht hat, ihre Strategie zur Terrorismusbekämpfung in den Augen ihrer nationalen und internationalen Öffentlichkeit zu legitimieren. Ein wichtiges Element der KPCh-Politik in Xinjiang war der Einsatz gewöhnlicher chinesischer Bürger oder die "Massenlinie", um neue Realitäten vor Ort zu schaffen. Dieses Buch untersucht, wie die Geschichte des ideologischen Kampfes in der Volksrepublik China neue Züge angenommen hat, und bietet Einblicke in die Art und Weise, wie die KPCh ihre Legitimität in den Augen der...