『Abstract
　China, now the world's second -largest economy is worried about energy security, which underpins the core objectives of Beijing and the political legitimacy of the Communist Party of China. The purpose of this study is to explore certain popular myths about China's energy security. The study consists of six parts. After the introduction, it formulates the obscure concept of “energy security” and attempts to contextualize it with “Chinese characteristics.” Then it explicitly points out that the largest driver of oil demand by China as the “World's Factory” is transport instead of industry. Next, it explores the effectiveness of transnational pipelines as a measure of energy security and explains why they are less effective than many observers have previously assumed. Furthermore, it investigates the global expansion of Chinese national oil companies and questions that actual contribution to energy security. A few concluding remarks then follow.

Keywords: China; Energy security; Oil』

1. Introduction
2. Conceptualization of energy security with Chinese characteristics
3. Actual drivers of China's oil demand
4. Overstated effectiveness of China's transnational oil pipelines
5. Contribution and impacts of Chinese NOCs' global expansion
6. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgement
References

Fig. 1. China's existing, planned and speculative cross-border oil pipelines, 2010. Source: The author's production. Leung(2011)による『China's energy security: Perception and reality』から