China’s Gas Tariffs Are a Permian-Size Problem for Oil

The latest bit of America’s energy sector to feel the over-the-shoulder lash is the liquefied natural gas-export business. On Friday, LNG joined the list of goods that China will hit with tariffs in retaliation for U.S. ones. This is...

Escaping China’s Parent Trap

Think Chinese SOEs' have little incentive to stray beyond China? That's far from the case. Just look at Britain's utilities

Caixin Media
05.19.15

Why Xinjiang’s Economy Is Sputtering

It has been almost one year since a terrorist bombing in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, shocked the nation and brought economic woes and social conflicts in the largely Uighur-populated area into the spotlight again.

I arrived...

Caixin Media
09.04.13

China’s Shale Gas Development Goals Just Pipe Dreams

China wants to reap the benefits of a shale gas revolution similar to the one in the United States, but there are many obstacles to this happening, experts say.

In the first half of 2013, fifty-six shale gas wells were in the exploratory...

Chinese Foot-Dragging

The South China Sea is one of the world’s most strategically important waterways. China has fanned hostilities with other nations with sovereignty claims and confrontations over disputed islands and even specks of rock.

Environment
03.13.13

Chinese Fracking Plans Prompt “Water-Grabbing” Fears

from chinadialogue

China has become one of Asia’s leaders in expanding unconventional shale-gas extraction in the name of energy self-sufficiency and national autonomy. Experiences of “fracking” worldwide, however, suggest the costs to China of joining this...