美国日益成为全球能源生产大国,在石油需求领域和中国的竞争逐渐淡化。在中东地区,中国需要扮演美国的合作者,而非挑战力量。随着页岩气产量的不断增加,美国油气的自给程度不断上升。而美国能源供需动向,直接影响着国际能源市场和其他国家,美国对中东产油国的依赖逐步减弱,使得中国在中东地区扮演的角色正发生着微妙的变化。 The United States has increasingly become a major energy producer in the world and its competition with China in the field of oil demand has been gradually weakened. In the Middle East, China needs to act as a U.S. collaborator instead of a challenge force. With the increasing production of shale gas, the degree of self-sufficiency of oil and gas in the United States is on the rise. The U.S. energy supply and demand trends have a direct impact on the international energy markets and other countries. The United States’ reliance on the Middle East oil producers has gradually weakened, making a subtle change in China’s role in the Middle East.