Organization Date Title Keywords
United Nations 06.1.15 Demand-Driven Data: How Partner Countries are Gathering Chinese Development Cooperation Information
As China becomes one of the major development partners and South-South cooperation (SSC) providers globally, there is increasing demand from partner countries for more information on China’s financial flows. China has been taking initiatives to increase...
Foreign Aid, Development, Assistance
Mercator Institute for China Studies 06.1.15 Chinese FDI in Europe and Germany
Thilo Hanemann and Mikko Huotari
The authors have—on the basis of a unique transaction dataset—analyzed the newest trends of Chinese direct investment in Germany and the E.U. The study is able to clearly establish that the new wave of Chinese investment offers exceptional opportunities...
Foreign Direct Investment, Global Economy, Economic Policy, Europe, Germany
PEN International 05.20.15 Censorship and Conscience
Alexa Olesen
In this report, PEN American Center (PEN) examines how foreign authors in particular are navigating the heavily censored Chinese book industry. China is one of the largest book publishing markets in the world, with total revenue projected to exceed $16...
Censorship, Self-Censorship, Writers, Nonfiction Writing, Journalism
Greenpeace 05.1.15 Africa’s Fisheries’ Paradise at a Crossroads
Irresponsible Chinese Distant Water Fishing (DWF) companies, including China’s largest DWF company—China National Fisheries Corporation (CNFC)—are undermining the long-term sustainability of West Africa’s fisheries through persistent Illegal, Unreported...
National Committee on United States-China Relations 05.1.15 New Neighbors: Chinese Investment in the United States by Congressional District
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a vital component of the United States economy today and has been throughout the nation’s history. Investors from abroad are a source of growth, employment, competitiveness, and innovation, and their presence is living...
Foreign Direct Investment, U.S.-China Relations
China Water Risk 04.15.15 Towards A Water & Energy Secure China
Debra Tan, Feng Hu, Hubert Thieriot, Dawn McGregor
China’s waterscape is changing. Water risks in China, be they physical, economic or regulatory, have great social-economic impacts and are well recognized, especially those in China’s water-energy nexus. Today, 93 percent of power generation in China is...
Energy, Water Scarcity, Water
Paulson Institute 04.9.15 Power Play: China’s Ultra High Voltage Technology and Global Standards
As a matter of government policy and corporate strategy, China has been intensifying its effort to set indigenous standards for homegrown ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission technology. The country also aims to contribute to UHV standards...
Trade, Energy, Manufacturing, Technology
Paulson Institute 04.1.15 Can Carbon Taxes be Good for China and the United States?
Antung Anthony Liu
One way that China may meaningfully control its emissions is through the recent idea of a national carbon permit trading system, building on its carbon permit pilot programs. In China’s case, the internal debate about promulgating these actions centers...
Carbon, Carbon Trading, Environmental Regulation, Environment, Energy
Council on Foreign Relations 04.1.15 Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Robert D. Blackwill, Ashley J. Tellis
China represents and will remain the most significant competitor to the United States for decades to come. As such, the need for a more coherent U.S. response to increasing Chinese power is long overdue. Because the American effort to “integrate” China...
U.S.-China Relations, Global Politics, International Relations, Rise of China, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Harvard University 04.1.15 U.S.-China 21: The Future of U.S.-China Relations Under Xi Jinping
Kevin Rudd
We are, therefore, seeing the emergence of an asymmetric world in which the fulcrums of economic and military power are no longer co-located, but, in fact, are beginning to diverge significantly. Political power, through the agency of foreign policy,...
Xi Jinping, U.S.-China Relations, Rise of China, Global Politics, International Relations