Xi Attends White House Climate Summit Where Coal Is On The Menu
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Apr 23, 2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping virtually attended a White House climate summit, fueling hopes that Joe Biden’s policy of “extreme competition” will propel both countries to combat the climate crisis. Before the summit, Biden climate envoy John Kerry travelled to China. “We talked a lot about coal,” Kerry told the press. At The New York Times, Somini Sengupta wrote about
Coal is the lightning rod of climate diplomacy this year, as countries scramble to rebuild their economies after the coronavirus pandemic while at the same time, stave off the risks of a warming planet. The Biden administration has leaned on its allies Japan and Korea to stop financing coal use abroad. And it has repeatedly called out China for its soaring coal use. China is by far the largest consumer of coal, and is still building coal-fired power plants at home and abroad.
Think tanks attending BFA stress multilateralism, cooperation, and cyber security in post-COVID-19 era
By Dong Feng Published: Apr 22, 2021 08:58 PM
Delegates speak at the round-table talks in Hainan Province on Tuesday Photo: Courtesy of CIIS
Global governance is in definite need of Asia s wisdom and solutions in the post-COVID-19 era, which calls for regional cooperation and multilateralism, said scholars and experts at a round-table on the sideline of the 2021 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) in south China s Hainan Province on Tuesday.
Hosted by the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), the round-table attracted more than 40 experts and high-level delegates from institutes and peer think tanks based in Asia. Scholars find it important to foster multilateralism, enhance cooperation, and improve cybersecurity in the post-COVID-19 era.
The United States and China do not agree on much nowadays, but on climate change both countries are publicly pledging to do more to fight global warming. The problem will be working together on it.
OPINION / VIEWPOINT
By Cai Liang Published: Apr 15, 2021 09:20 AM
Combo photo shows U.S. President Joe Biden (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on different occasions. (Xinhua)Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is scheduled to meet with US President Joe Biden on Friday. According to Japanese media, the two leaders plan to affirm the importance of stability in the Taiwan Straits in a joint statement after the summit. Government sources also told the media that Japan and the US have agreed to closely cooperate in the event of a military clash between the mainland and Taiwan.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Japanese State Minister of Defense, Yasuhide Nakayama, said that as the US sent former senior State Department officials, like Richard Armitage, to Taiwan and decided to ease contact restrictions with the island, the Japanese government should carefully examine the same content and consider the same policy to be implemented as soon as possible.
China-U.S. Cyber-Nuclear C3 Stability
April 08, 2021
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Summary: Cyber threats to nuclear command, control, and communications systems (NC3) attract increasing concerns. Carnegie and partners have developed a platform of unclassified knowledge to enable U.S.-China engagement on this issue.
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This paper was produced through a three-year dialogue led by Carnegie and the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, with inputs and review provided by American and Chinese technical and military experts.
The Carnegie team consisted of George Perkovich, Ariel E. Levite, Lyu Jinghua, Katherine Charlet, Michael D. Swaine, and Wyatt Hoffman. The U.S. experts consulted included Robert Schmidle and John A. Davis. (Please note that the list of Carnegie experts includes some individuals that have since departed Carnegie.)