
Steven Lewis
Head of the China Studies Program, Rice University
Steven W. Lewis is the C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow and head of the China Studies Program at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. He is currently conducting research on the potential for shale gas in China's localities, and has testified on energy and the South China Sea before the United States Economic Security Review Commission.
As some Asia energy experts have noted, the South China Sea (SCS) is like a thin donut with a very large hole: all of the hydrocarbons in oil and gas form are located along the periphery, while the [...] More