Barrak Almubarak

Barrak AlMubarak holds an MA in Political Science from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science. His research focuses on the Middle East's security complexes, great-power competition, and asymmetric dependencies in regional energy geopolitics.

Asymmetric Dependencies: China’s Electrostate and the Global South

Opinion - Mar 11, 2026
China Energy Engineering Corporation project has 8 hours of storage and can deliver power well into the night, cc csp.guru, modified, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:50_MW_molten-salt_power_tower_in_hami.jpg

China’s clean-energy exports are dominating in the Global South, such that it is now being called an ‘electrostate.’ But this economic success story is giving rise to new political dependencies that could restrict hedging options in an increasingly multipolar world order.

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