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Further Thoughts on China, Climate and Trade
January 26, 2010 4 min. read

I wrote, in the wake of the shameful Chinese performance in Copenhagen, about China, Climate and Trade.  A couple of days after that post, there was an excellent analysis in the “FT” and I wrote a letter to the editor, alas unpublished.  Here’s the letter now: Geoff Dyer rightly wonders “…whether China’s political system is […]

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China, Climate and Trade
January 2, 2010 4 min. read

If you know me or have been reading this blog with any regularity, you know I’m a skeptic.  Not about climate change but about China.  I made an analysis several years back that, in retrospect, seems mistaken.  I perceived that the economic and political pressures of the liberal democracies would push and pull China toward […]

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Bits and Bobs, March '09 Edition
March 22, 2009 3 min. read

China and Trade – Steven Chu suggested at a recent hearing in the House, as Reuters reported here, that “…once Washington develops a system limiting carbon emissions, if other countries do not impose a cost on carbon emissions the United States will be at a disadvantage.”  Chu said that one idea in the mix is […]

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