China, Brazil and Petroleum

This book explores how China-Brazil relations have been impacted by the oil-related bilateral trade, investments, infrastructure projects and financing - an increasingly consequential aspect of Sino-Brazilian relations, which sheds light on China's energy security concerns and its relationship with oil-rich countries more generally. This book depicts in detail how China's quest for petroleum has been helping Brazil become an oil power. Written by a Brazilian career diplomat that completed a PhD in Mandarin on the topic of this publication and whose insights into Chinese economics, politics and energy policies are deep, this book will interest scholars, diplomats, economists and professionals in the oil sector.

Chapter 1. The evolution of the chinese oil sector: from self-sufficiency to increasing external dependence. - chapter 2. The expansion of the brazilian oil sector: from external dependence to oil self-sufficiency. - chapter 3. Breaking records: the sino-brazilian oil trade. - chapter 4. In search of el dorado: chinese investments in the brazilian oil sector. - chapter 5. Made in china: chinese constructors role in the expansion of the brazilian oil infrastructure. - chapter 6. Sailing against the tide: china s countercyclical lending in times of brazilian internal crisis. - chapter 7. Four pillars in four stages: the phases of the sino-brazilian oil relationship. - chapter 8. A look into the future.