Edward Alden, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Oct 15, 2012
President Obama became the first president in 22 years to issue a formal order blocking a foreign investment into the United States on national security grounds when he stopped a Chinese company from investing in a small Oregon wind farm. Such actions only reinforce the idea that China faces additional, unfair scrutiny when attempting to invest in the US.
Jul 31, 2012
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) this week offered to buy Canada’s Nexen, Inc., for $15 billion. Nexen’s board is recommending the bid to share
Peggy Liu, Chair of JUCCCE
Jul 14, 2012
It is hard to imagine that China could one day lead the world in going green when you look at the smog-filled skies that are everyday reality there. The governm
Zhang Xinsheng, Executive Chairman, Eco-Forum Global
Jul 11, 2012
This is significant for human society. In the past 20 years, though achievements have been made in the areas of education, alleviation of poverty etc., the pr
Graciela Chichilnisky, Chichilnisky, Professor, Columbia University
Jun 12, 2012
China has become in the last few years the world’s largest emitter of CO2, followed closely by the USA. It has a voracious use of natural resources – most fro
Edward B. Barbier, Professor of Economics, University of Wyoming
May 28, 2012
One of the few bright spots in recent international negotiations to replace the expiring 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ha
Jonas Parello-Plesner, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Apr 05, 2012
Helsinki, the capital of Finland has been ranked as one of the cleanest cities in the world. Europe is reputed for clear air and is fighting for it to stay that
Nov 25, 2011
China’s government completed its Energy Saving and Emission Reduction(ESER)initiative for the “11th Five-year Plan” by the end of 2010. It achieved the goal by
Chen Weihua, Deputy Editor, China Daily USA
Jul 21, 2011
In the United States, the Barack Obama administration is fighting to lift the national debt ceiling. In China, the huge debt owed by local governments has set o
Peggy Liu, Chair of JUCCCE
Jun 29, 2011
In President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, he called this “our generation’s Sputnik moment,” a reference to the era when the U.S. space program p