Organization Date Title Keywords
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
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
Overseas Development Institute 04.1.15 Can Fracking Green China’s Growth?
Ilmi Granoff, Sam Pickard, Julian Doczi, Roger Calow, Zhenbo Hou, & Vanessa D’Alançon
This paper analyses the best available technical, scientific, and engineering literature on the risks and opportunities posed by shale gas, and also what policy environment could maximise the opportunity and minimise the risk. It also analyses China’s...
Greenhouse Gases, Fracking, Shale Gas, Water Pollution, Energy, Clean Energy
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 03.31.15 Navigating Choppy Waters
Matthew P. Goodman, David A. Parker
China faces increasing economic headwinds that call into question not only its near-term growth outlook but the longer-term sustainability of its economic success. At a time of leadership transition in Beijing, global markets and policymakers alike are...
Economic Development, Economic Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, U.S.-China Relations, International Relations
Paulson Institute 02.25.15 Double Impact
Valerie J. Karplus
This paper makes the case for establishing a national CO2 price in China as soon as possible. End-of-pipe pollution control technologies—a core component of China’s Air Pollution Action Plan (APAP)—can address local air pollution but not CO2 emissions....
Carbon, Environment, CO2 Emissions, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection, Environmental Regulation
Paulson Institute 01.6.15 Rebalancing China’s Energy Strategy
Damien Ma
At a high-level meeting of China’s top finance and economics body in June 2014, President Xi Jinping called for a sweeping energy revolution in China, centered on five areas: demand, production, technology, institutional governance, and global markets....
Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Environment
The Conference Board 10.20.14 The Long Soft Fall in Chinese Growth
David Hoffman and Andrew Polk
As recently as the fourth quarter of 2013, there were few detractors from an optimistic assessment of China’s prospects to achieve a “soft landing” and continue to enjoy relatively stable growth in the 7 to 8 percent range for the next 10 years and more...
Economic Growth, Economic Development, Economic Downturn
Asia Society 10.1.14 Avoiding the Blind Alley: China’s Economic Overhaul and Its Global Implications
Daniel H. Rosen
President Xi Jinping announced a sweeping overhaul for China’s economy in November 2013, with pledges to make market forces decisive, treat homegrown and foreign investors with the same laws and regulations, and change the mission statement of the...
Investment, Foreign Direct Investment, Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 06.1.14 Decoding China’s Emerging “Great Power” Strategy in Asia
Christopher K. Johnson, Ernest Z. Bower, Victor D. Cha, Michael J. Green, Matthew P. Goodman
The course charted by China’s reemergence as a great power over the next few decades represents the primary strategic challenge for the U.S.-Japan security alliance and for the East Asian security landscape writ large. If China’s economic, military, and...
U.S.-China Relations, U.S. and Japan, China-Japan Relations, Global Politics
Asia Society 04.1.14 High Tech: The Next Wave of Chinese Investment in America
Thilo Hanemann and Daniel H. Rosen
In this report, we explore the advent of Chinese investment in U.S. high-tech sectors in order to provide an objective starting point for debate about this nascent trend. We use a unique dataset on Chinese FDI transactions in the United States to...
U.S.-China Relations, Global Economy, Technology, High-Tech Industry, International Trade