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The Chinese Scramble into Greenland Over-hyped

Jonas Parello-Plesner, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

Greenland believes its ticket to prosperity is the wealth of minerals and rare earths below its slopes. Jonas Parello-Plesner discusses the potential for China’s investment to turn Greenland into a successful resource economy.

China Must Exploit Its Shale Gas

Elizabeth Muller, Executive Director of Berkeley Earth

Awaiting confirmation to head the Energy Department, Ernest J. Moniz must balance the desire to develop and extract new sources of energy with the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions and minimize environmental damage. Elizabeth Muller explains the new energy secretary will have the duty of guiding emerging economies like China through the crucial switch from coal to natural gas.

America Can Help China Clean-up Its Environment

Tom Watkins, board advisor of the University of Michigan Confucius Institute

These days China is in the center of any conversation about sustainable development and environmental degradation, writes Tom Watkins. The country has much work to do in order to balance economic growth with environmental sustainability.

Shale Gas: The Key in the US’ Asia Pivot?

Elliot Brennan, Editor and Project Coordinator of research in resource security at the Institute for Security and Development Policy

Energy has long been both the bane and the favored instrument in the foreign policy of governments. Yet, for the US, fortunes are changing and the goal of former President Nixon’s Project Independence looks soon to be realized.

The Impact of the Changing Global Energy Map on Geopolitics of the World

Feng Zhaokui, Honorary Academician of the CASS

The shale gas revolution is unfolding, and is expected to have a profound impact on global geopolitics in the coming years, writes Feng Zhaokui.

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