The energy transition could create unexpected linkages in Asia

By Dominic Ziegler

To focus only on China’s great-power contest with America risks missing other shifts that will prove every bit as important to Asian nations. The biggest has to do with the region’s energy transition. In 2024 burgeoning energy linkages across Asia could rewrite the way the region deals with itself, in ways that both reinforce and undermine a narrative of China’s dominance.