In Beijing, Political Pomp Abounds as China Kicks off 'Two Meetings'
on March 4, 2015
The dual sessions do telegraph the general national agenda for the coming year.
Sierra Club
on March 4, 2015
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Founded by legendary conservationist John Muir in 1892, the Sierra Club is now the nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization -- with more than two million members and supporters. Our successes range from protecting millions of acres of wilderness to helping pass the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act. More recently, we've made history by leading the charge to move away from the dirty fossil fuels that cause climate disruption and toward a clean energy economy.
China’s Military Budget Increasing 10% for 2015, Official Says
on March 4, 2015
Increase would put the budget around $145 billion, the world’s second-largest, though still far behind the United States,
Clearing Skies
A Journalist Who Fled China’s Air Pollution Looks Back and Sees Rays of Hope
on March 4, 2015
After dark is when the pollution arrives on the outskirts of Shanghai. On a bright night, when moonlight refracts through the smog, you can see black clouds of soot pouring out of small workshop smokestacks silhouetted against the sky. In case you miss it in the dark, there's always the morning's first deep breath and the feeling of something raw in your throat.
China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear From Anti-terror Law
on March 4, 2015
Obama this week said China would have to change the draft law if it were "to do business with the United States".
The Other China
ChinaFile Presents
on March 4, 2015
Writers Michael Meyer and Ian Buruma engage in a discussion co-sponsored by The New York Review of Books centered on Meyer’s new book, In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, which combines immersion journalism, memoir, and historical research to create a portrait of the momentous changes underway in China’s often-overlooked countryside.
A Vital Partnership
California and China Collaborating on Clean Energy and Combating Climate Change
on March 4, 2015
As the two largest global emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the United States share the challenge of transforming each of their current fossil fuel–based energy systems into clean twenty-first-century energy systems that remain cornerstones of our vigorous economies while protecting our shared climate, along with our clean air, clean water, and other precious natural resources. This report outlines the types of activities already underway involving agencies in the California state government as well as California-based non-governmental actors and China. As California has taken on some of the functions of a nation-state (in the sense of forming direct relations with foreign governments in sectors of key interest to Californians), it has also helped create something of a state model for subnational international cooperation on climate change and energy issues. We think it is a model worth studying, supporting, and celebrating on both sides of the U.S.-China divide. If we are going to collectively arrive at any kind of meaningful solution to the urgent challenge of climate change, it will most certainly involve active participation by both subnational governmental entities and non-governmental, civil society institutions.
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Sam Geall
on March 3, 2015
Sam Geall is CEO of China Dialogue Trust, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and associate faculty at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on climate policy and politics, energy transition, and environmental governance in China, as well as the impact of Chinese investment through the Belt and Road Initiative. He edited China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (Zed Books, 2013).
Why Has This Environmental Documentary Gone Viral on China’s Internet?
A ChinaFile Conversation
on March 3, 2015
[Updated: March 6, 2015] Our friends at Foreign Policy hit the nail on the head by headlining writer Yiqin Fu's Monday story "China's National Conversation about Pollution Has Finally Begun." What happened?
Stefani Kim
on March 3, 2015
Stefani Kim recently completed her Master’s in Journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to graduate school, she covered community news in Westchester County, New York. As an editor for AOL Patch, she was responsible for sourcing, authoring, and editing community-relevant content on a daily basis as well as breaking news relevant to the greater New York community. In addition to having editorial oversight, she was also responsible for maintaining an active presence in the community, as well as on social media. Kim also contributed to educational research projects for the New York University Child Study Center and was a visiting writer at Native People’s Magazine in Phoenix. She is interested in issues affecting recent immigrants and low-income, urban communities.