The China-Europe Partnership is Breaking Down
The souring of relations between European capitals and Beijing represents a strategic opportunity for the U.S.
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Climate Changers
With climate diplomacy deadlocked, researchers and policy makers are grappling with extreme warming scenarios and sobering choices — including tinkering with the global climate. Despite the many risks, the U.S. and China are both barreling forward with geoengineering research, and many experts warn there aren't...
Climate Consensus
Increasingly, Democrats and Republicans believe that climate change and China pose a single interconnected challenge. As a result — and for the first time ever — a window is opening for bipartisan cooperation on climate policy. Historically progressive ideas like a 'carbon border adjustment mechanism'...
The Ocean Edge
With its plans for seabed mining and the "blue economy," China is implementing a strategy for the world's warming oceans. The U.S. is trying to keep up, but just as climate change is heating up geopolitical competition, the scramble for ocean resources has also become...
Pole Position
In public, Chinese diplomats and climate negotiators deny that they see any link between climate change and geopolitics. But there is a deeply cynical consensus within China’s academic and policy communities that climate change creates geopolitical opportunities that China can exploit — and must exploit...
The Adaptation Advantage
China is mobilizing to adapt and thrive in a rapidly warming world. Under Xi Jinping, the country has undertaken thousands of projects — across industries and in every part of the country — that are clearly designed to protect the country against extreme climate impacts....
The Diplomatic Deadlock
For decades, climate change has been framed as a crisis that the international community needs to solve — and which it could solve if world leaders would only muster the political will to cooperate and share the burden. But the bonhomie of climate conferences and...
Carbon Border Adjustment is China’s Worst Nightmare
The EU is considering a tax on imports that would be good news for the world — and terrible news for China.
Asia Can’t Decarbonize Without China’s Help
Asia cannot fully decarbonize without becoming even more financially interconnected with — and dependent on — China.
Europe and America Still Don’t Agree on China
In Europe, Beijing is still seen as a competitor and partner — not a rival.
What If China Never Reopens?
Keeping the borders closed may make it easier to govern China near-term, but the broader consequences would be tragic and potentially dangerous.
The Sponge Revolution
By 2030, 70 percent of Chinese cities are scheduled to become “sponge cities” — a novel solution designed to prevent flooding while also “greening” China and making it more resilient to climate change. If it succeeds, it will be a major step forward in the...