Organization Date Title Keywords
Natural Resources Defense Council 04.1.07 NRDC Partners With China on Energy Efficiency
China has launched the most aggressive energy efficiency program in the world to reduce pollution and protect people's health. NRDC is working with key partners at the central and provincial level to help China achieve its ambitious energy efficiency... 		Pollution, Energy Efficiency
Council on Foreign Relations 04.1.07 U.S.-China Relations
Carla A. Hills, Dennis C. Blair, Frank Sampson Jannuzi
The Council on Foreign Relations established an Independent Task Force to take stock of the changes under way in China today and to evaluate what these changes mean for China and for the US-China relationship. Based on its careful assessment of the... 		International Relations, U.S.-China Relations
Amnesty International 03.1.07 Internal Migrants: Discrimination and Abuse
Numbering just two million in the 1980s China's internal migrants are now part of the largest peacetime migration in history, with some experts estimating their numbers to swell to 300 million by 2015. While they have served as laborers fueling China's... 		Discrimination, Human Rights, Migration
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 03.1.07 Will India Be a Better Strategic Partner Than China?
Dan Blumenthal
The Joint Declaration signed on July 18, 2005, by President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been heralded in some quarters as the equivalent of President Richard Nixon’s opening to China. The opening to China under President... 		India, Strategic Partnership, U.S.-China Relations
Human Rights in China 02.1.07 China: Minority Exclusion, Marginalization and Rising Tensions
This report documents the serious impediments to the fulfillment of China's human rights obligations, in the areas of ethnic minority political participation, development, and preservation of cultural identity. Given the destabilizing levels of social... 		Ethnic Minorities, Human Rights, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang
Natural Resources Defense Council 02.1.07 Coal in a Changing Climate
Daniel A. Lashof, Duncan Delano, Jon Devine, Barbara Finamore, Debbie Hammel, David Hawkins, Allen Hershkowitz, Jack Murphy, JingJing Qian, Patrice Simms, Johanna Wald
The current coal fuel cycle is among the most destructive activities on earth, placing an unacceptable burden on public health and the environment. There is no such thing as “clean coal.” As the two largest coal consumers, the United States and China... 		Coal, Pollution, Energy, Energy Efficiency
Congressional Research Service 01.13.07 Is China a Threat to the U.S. Economy?
Craig K. Elwell, Marc Labonte
The rise of China from a poor, stagnant country to a major economic power within a time span of only twenty-eight years is often described by analysts as one of the greatest economic success stories in modern times. From 1979 (when economic reforms were... 		Economic Growth, Foreign Direct Investment, Imports and Exports, International Relations, Trade
World Wildlife 01.12.07 The State of Wildlife Trade in China
Xu Ling, Liu Xueyan, Meng Meng, Yin Feng, Dick Tong, Timothy Lam, Xu Hongfa, Joyce Wu
This edition aims to highlight wildlife trade trends in threatened and at-risk wildlife from the past year, with an emphasis on the impact of China’s consumption on globally important biodiversity ‘hotspots.’ Surveys in 2007 found that while illegal... 		Sustainability, Illegal Trade, Medicine, China-Africa Relations, Food
Congressional Research Service 01.4.07 China’s Trade with the United States and the World
Thomas Lum, Dick K. Nanto
As imports from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have surged in recent years, posing a threat to some U.S. industries and manufacturing employment, Congress has begun to focus on not only access to the Chinese market and intellectual property rights... 		Imports and Exports, International Relations, Trade, Currency, U.S.-China Relations, Antidumping
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 01.1.07 Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China
David Dollar and Shang-Jin Wei
Based on a survey that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China with firm-level accounting information for 2002-2004, the authors examine the presence of systematic distortions in capital allocation that result in uneven... 		Economic Growth, Economic Policy, State-Owned Enterprises