第1个回答 2009-04-12
After World War I, as a result of excessive exploitation of the United States and a large number of veterans of the oil exports, making the post-First World War, the United States is faced with the depletion of oil resources in danger. In order to solve the oil crisis, the U.S. government to develop oil diplomacy, and so on through the open door policy to implement the expansion of oil policy, through diplomatic means to help the development of national oil companies in oil exploration to foreign, mainly in Asia have been open a long-term access to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands took the lead in oil production, effort over a period of time, the United States in Asia, oil production has firm foothold in the East India Islands, Mesopotamia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other places have their own mining areas, and expanding themselves in Asia's oil concessions to ease the oil crisis of the domestic. Of domestic energy security issues play a significant role in mitigation of the country's political, economic and even the world's political, economic, have had a great impact.
Key words oil diplomacy; oil expansion policy; red line agreement; Asia