Could China’s Very Hot Summer Revive Action on Climate Change?
For more than two months, China—along with the rest of the globe—has been struggling with extreme heat and severe droughts. Hundreds of cities are facing temperatures in the 90s and higher, and Beijing last month issued its first nationwide...
When Will China Get off Coal?
As China looks to meet its energy demands, there has been a rush for coal, with prices hitting record highs in October. Despite pledges by Beijing to pull back from fossil fuels, the power crisis has exposed shortfalls in the country’s ability to...
How Should the U.S. Approach Climate Diplomacy with China?
As China continues to emerge as a superpower and move forward with its colossal Belt and Road Initiative amid the climate crisis, American climate engagement with China is more critical than ever. What would an effective climate diplomacy for the...
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French President Emmanuel Macron will head to China next week to strengthen commercial ties with the world's second-largest economy.
Rich Countries Are Reducing Their Emissions—by Exporting Them to China
Historical greenhouse-gas emissions data make clear that much of the burden of climate change lies with rich countries. The US, the UK, Germany, and others built their economies burning fossil fuels without thinking about the consequences.
China in Pole Position amid 'Desperate' Global Race to Secure Lithium Supplies
China is outpacing the U.S. and other countries in a global race to secure supplies of an all-important element for electric cars.
Why China Wants to Lead on Climate, but Clings to Coal (for Now)
Barely a month ago, in a landmark speech to the Communist Party Congress, President Xi Jinping of China promised that his country would take a “driving seat in international cooperation to respond to climate change.”
China Recovery Pushes Greenhouse Emissions to Global Record
Stronger Chinese economic growth will push global greenhouse gas emissions to a record high in 2017 after remaining flat for three years, dashing tentative hopes of a turning point in the world’s efforts to curb climate change.
While U.S. Moves toward Coal, China Bets Big on Solar
In southern China, the country flipped the switch on the world's largest floating solar installation - built on top of a lake created by an abandoned coal mine. Projects like these helped China double its solar capacity last year. It is now twice...
China Enters the Garden of Eden
from chinadialogueBuilt on the site of an abandoned clay pit, the Eden Project has never been short of grand vision.
Its iconic biomes house the world’s largest captive rainforest and...
Top U.S. Diplomat David Rank on Why He Resigned to Protest Trump
from Sinica PodcastDavid Rank became the leading diplomat for one of America’s most important embassies during the transition when Iowa governor Terry Branstad formally succeeded former Montana senator Max Baucus as U.S. Ambassador to China on May 24, 2017. He soon...
China Is Now Looking to California–Not Trump–to Help Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
Governor Jerry Brown met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a rare diplomatic coup that catapults California into quasi-national status as a negotiator.
Turning against Trump: How the Chinese Covered the Climate Pact Exit
Mr. Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement gave fresh material to one of the Chinese state media’s favorite propaganda themes: the idea that Western democracy is flawed, chaotic and prone to social strife.
Trump Hands the Chinese a Gift: The Chance for Global Leadership
The Chinese are eager to fill the void that Washington is leaving around the world on everything from setting the rules of trade and environmental standards to financing infrastructure projects.
China and Europe Are Moving Forward without Trump
Beijing is in prime position to capitalize on major policy fissures that have emerged between Europe and the Trump administration on climate, trade and defense. The new dynamic will be on full display on Thursday in Brussels, when Chinese Premier...
China’s Xi Positions Himself as Free Trade and Climate Champion
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for the world to reject protectionism and promote free trade in the latest attempt by Beijing to take up the mantle of globalization since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.
How a U.S.-China War Could Begin
President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping sat down for their first superpower summit in Florida earlier this month, and by all accounts, things went well. Still, it is time to consider the sheer magnitude of problems dividing America and...
China Conducts Foreign Policy in Africa without Judgment
In this edition of the China in Africa podcast, we pull the focus back to look at China’s rapidly evolving foreign policy agenda in this new era of Western populism led by Donald Trump in the United States.
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As the U.S. Steps Back, China Must Step up on Climate Leadership
from chinadialoguePresidents Trump and Xi are scheduled to meet today at Mar-a Lago, Florida, and given the tense state of U.S.-China relations and the political leanings of the Trump administration there is much at stake for cooperation between...
What Should We Expect When Trump and Xi Meet in Florida?
On April 6-7, U.S. President Donald Trump will host Xi Jinping in their first face-to-face meeting when China’s President arrives at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The meeting comes early in Trump’s presidency, after a campaign in...
Climate Change: China Calls U.S. ‘Selfish’ after Trump Seeks to Bring back Coal
State-run tabloid says Beijing cannot fill vacuum left by U.S. and urges west to pressure Trump on global warming
China Poised to Take Lead on Climate After Trump’s Move to Undo Policies
President Trump’s signing of an executive order on Tuesday aimed at undoing many of the Obama administration’s climate change policies flips the roles of the two powers.
Trump’s First Test in Asia
from Carnegie ChinaWhile President Trump appoints new officials to his administration and reviews policy frameworks, Asia-Pacific leaders are moving ahead. Since taking office, Trump has grappled with consequential developments in the region,...
Clean Energy Could Spark a Trade War between the U.S. and China
In the past few years, China has surpassed the U.S. in electric vehicle sales, renewable energy capacity, and recently announced it was investing $365 billion to keep the momentum going. That investment puts China in a prime position to lead the...
Cities and Data: China’s Weapons in the Battle for Clean Air
China is proud of the fact that its air quality readings have improved in recent years, if only slightly, with lingering smog in industrial areas.
‘Irrational’ Coal Plants May Hamper China’s Climate Change Efforts
A certain coal plant near the rugged Kazakhstan border and others like it undermine China’s aim of being a global leader on efforts to limit climate change.
U.S. Policy Toward China
The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy generated the following report and set of recommendations to assist the 45th U.S. presidential administration in formulating a China strategy that will protect and further U.S. national interests. This report...
A U.S.-China Role Switch: Who’s the Globalist Now?
Xi Jinping sees a window as Donald Trump stirs masses with slogans
A Communist Party Man at Davos
Xi Jinping tries to charm the capitalist elite
China Builds World’s Biggest Solar Farm in Journey to Become Green Superpower
Vast plant in Qinghai province is part of China’s determination to transform itself from climate change villain to a green energy colossus
Trump Warming to Reality of Climate Change, Says Senior Chinese Official
Beijing’s chief climate negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, talks down fears that joint leadership shown by China and the US will be reversed under new president
China Wants to Be a Climate Change Watchdog, but Can It Lead by Example?
Like some other nations, China, the world’s biggest polluter, has refused to accept international monitoring of its emissions and says it will provide data to outside observers.
China to Plow $361 Billion into Renewable Fuel by 2020
China will plow 2.5 trillion yuan ($361 billion) into renewable power generation by 2020, the country's energy agency said on Thursday, as the world's largest energy market continues to shift away from dirty coal power towards cleaner fuels....
China’s Largest Freshwater Lake Is Shrinking
China’s largest freshwater lake is under serious threat, and it seems no one can agree on how to save it. Poyang Lake can swell to over 1,700 square miles, an area larger than Rhode Island. But photographs released by China’s state-run Xinhua...
China Gets Tough on Smog Offenders
China has slapped millions of dollars worth of fines on alleged offenders for violating anti-pollution rules, according to state media.
China Rises to Challenge of Battling Climate Change
from Carnegie ChinaWith the U.S. leadership role in the fight against climate change now being called into question, China has found itself in the unique position of being a global leader of the cause. In this podcast, nonresident Carnegie-Tsinghua...
Chinese Consumers Adopt Greener Lifestyle
from chinadialogueFor the last two years, Helen Ni has hosted low-carbon technology workshops for local kids and their parents. The informal gatherings take place at her ground-floor apartment in the Shanghai suburb of Minhang, close to Jiaotong...
Going Green in China, Where Climate Change Isn’t Considered a Hoax
Chinese leaders want to improve the quality of life in their nation's cities
China is Outsourcing Its Pollution
Beijing's diplomacy is increasingly green, but its international trade is getting ever more coal-black
Through Climate Change Denial, We’re Ceding Global Leadership to China
Remember when China was the climate change outcast? What a difference a few years — and an election — can make
Despite Climate Change Vow, China Pushes to Dig More Coal
Desperate to deliver coal before power stations run out, China mobilizes trains and half-mile lines of trucks
Will China Take the Lead on Climate Change?
As Trump Tweets about SNL and Hamilton, China’s Xi Embraces a New, Powerful Role
Trump’s talk of increasing trade barriers and disdain for global organizations and agreements could create a more isolationist US, leaving China to fill the gap
China Tells Trump Climate Change is Not a Hoax
Trump’s Twitter claim that China created the “concept of global warming” to undermine U.S. manufacturing has elicited a response from the Chinese government
China’s Arctic Ambitions Take Shape in Remote Iceland Valley
In a valley near the Arctic Circle where the wind whips the coarse yellow grass, China and Iceland are preparing to look to the sky — and a shared future
Trump Win Opens Way for China to Take Climate Leadership Role
Trump's election is likely to end the U.S. leadership role in the fight against global warming, and may lead to the emergence of an unlikely champion: China.
In a Rare Move, China Criticizes Trump Plan to Exit Climate Change Pact
"I believe a wise political leader should take policy stances that conform with global trends," China's veteran climate chief said
In China, It’s Always Greener on the Other Side
China is making the difficult transition to cleaner energy, but their efforts will help mitigate climate change
Resettling China’s 'Ecological Migrants'
These are the people the government has relocated from lands distressed by climate change, industrialization, and poor policies to hastily built villages
Living in China’s Expanding Deserts
People on the edges of the country’s vast seas of sand are being displaced by climate change
US and China Release Fossil Fuel Subsidy Peer Reviews
With public assessment of their subsidies, China and the US take a big step on transparency, but inch forward on reform
China Climate Goals Trigger Launch of New Derivatives
China’s clean energy pledges are prompting a supply of new financing tools to fund the estimated $6.53 trillion needed to switch from heavy, polluting industries to clean projects.
China Says Important Glacier Is Melting Due To Climate Change
China promises greenhouse gas emmissions will “peak around 2030,” while mountains melt....