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Eco-Cities in China: Fertile or Fallow?
What are eco-cities in China? Why are so many popping up in China’s second-tier urban locations? What are the main drivers for this trend and what makes a sound eco-city development project or zone?...
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Greater Philadelphia & 21st c. Energy Opportunity with China
A personal note: The Greater Philadelphia region stands on twin thresholds — as the new national innovation center for research and commercialization of energy efficient buildings in the U.S. and,...
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Global Leadership in Wind Energy will be a Marathon, not a Sprint
In 2008 China could be seen rapidly closing the gap with the traditional wind market leaders – the U.S., Germany and Spain. By 2009, China, riding a massive post-GFC stimulus program, became the...
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‘Shale Gas versus Renewables’ for Real World
I was asked during the UNEP Symposium in Philadelphia yesterday how I thought shale gas and ‘tight gas’ projects — which are at an early stage of operation in various parts of the world such as the...
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Post-Fukushima, Chinese nuclear power moving up on global pace-setters
Premise The Fukushima disaster in March has prompted all major nuclear powers to pause and reexamine their nuclear development programs. Germany and Italy reached decisions to phase out their nuclear...
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The Sun Shining Differently in the U.S. and China
I was asked today what accounts for China’s outsized role in solar PV , amounting currently to roughly 50% of global share of production despite having a Lilliputian share of global consumption. It...
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Brookings Touts Philadelphia’s Top 5 Strengths in U.S. Clean Economy
On October 11th, Mark Muro, Policy Director of The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, presented the national-level chapter of the story of ‘Greater Philadelphia’s 21st century Clean...
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ARPA-e and New Energy Hubs Survive Budget Battle
In the spirit of sharing news while it’s fresh, I’m copying verbatim a report on the gold nugget in the pile of dross that has passed for this year’s national budget process. For those of you who took...
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How do you say ‘Jon Huntsman’ in Mandarin?
This is the first of regular weekly Cooketop News blog posts (scheduled to appear each Monday). By reviewing the previous week’s top stories involving — broadly speaking — China clean energy, the idea...
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Happy Year of the Snake – Update 1
Happy Year of the Snake! I have some major catching up to do so let me begin here with a link to my book which the Wilson Center launched on September 24, 2012. (Note: if you want to download the PDF...
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Time For Xi to Reform His Reforms
by Elizabeth C. Economy February 6, 2015 ( Photo: Stringer/Courtesy Reuters). As Xi Jinping nears the two-year mark of his tenure as president of China, he might want to take stock of what is working...
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Q & A with Author Mark Clifford on “The Greening of Asia”
The following post comes courtesy of Sinosphere, the China blog for The New York Times. Like a flower poking out of the cracked pavement of a concrete jungle, this is another hopeful sign that ‘The...
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Sustaining U.S.-China Cooperation in Clean Energy
The motto of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is ‘knowledge in the public service.’ This publication of mine from September 2012 is made available to the public free of charge here...
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U.S./China Tech De-Coupling: 4 Levels of Risk
Volume 2, Number 2 in Global TECHtonics: U.S./China Fault-line series One of the most memorable moments from the two months of A-100 training I received upon entry into the U.S. Foreign Service was a...
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1.5° Is Where The U.S. & China Must Meet
The global scientific consensus, most prominently supported by the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), assesses with high confidence a global warming increase...
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Fiddling Around with U.S.-China Tech
Volume 2, Number 3 in Global TECHtonics: U.S./China Fault-line series A U.S.-led initiative to reach out to China and to welcome it into the community of Western nations began with President Nixon trip...
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TikTok Endgame Up Against the Time-Clock
Volume 2, Number 4 in Global TECHtonics: U.S./China Fault-line series The weekend’s big development in the technology arena is Beijing’s eleventh-hour move to alter the timing and trajectory of the...
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G7 Leaders Eye China with Symbolism-Heavy, Substance-Light Announcements
President Biden’s first in-person appearance on the world stage included a tense but business-like meeting with Vladimir Putin, a NATO meeting in which NATO solidarity was vociferously reaffirmed and...
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Global TECHtonics – Taiwan Straddles U.S.-China Microchip Supply Chain...
On June 8th, the Biden Administration announced immediate actions it was taking to address near-term vulnerabilities in four critical supply chains as identified by a 100-day America’s Supply Chains...
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