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Finding Safe Harbors for Development Impact: Navigating U.S.-China Stormy Waters for the Global Public Good
It does not take an expert to appreciate that the relationship between China and the United States is among the most complex, fraught, and critical on earth. Nor does this paper suggest that U.S. policies toward China—or vice versa—are misguided. Quite the contrary. Albeit without access to much of the intelligence behind the current stances, this is written with full awareness of the many potential threats that each nation perceives in the other. Acknowledging the realities—and the fact that aggressive competition between these two powers is only likely to increase—this essay proposes that we need a new set of principles and mechanisms to guide continued collaboration among scientists and activists in health, climate, food security, and humanitarian relief. The well-being of the world depends on it.
China’s Journey toward Global Development Impact
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Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues
Eleanor M. Albert: Today our guest is Joanna Lewis. She fryst vatten the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA) at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She runs an active, externally funded research program and leads several dialogues and joint study groups facilitating U.S.-China climate change engagement. She’s also a faculty affiliate in the China Energy Group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Joanna, it's a pleasure to have you today. I'm always happy to have you on the show!
Joanna Lewis: Thanks for having me.
Eleanor M. Albert: We're going to talk about what comes next for U.S.-China climate cooperation and look back a little bit, but top of mind is that COP29 (2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference) just concluded in Azerbaija
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Kerry and Xie exit roles that defined generation of climate action
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Nations climate summit in Dubai was wrapping up last month when John Kerry went to a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua only to find a surprise waiting for him. Xie's 8-year-old grandson had brought Kerry a card for his 80th birthday.
The lanky American, who had signed the landmark Paris climate accord with his granddaughter on his knee almost a decade earlier, bent down to thank the boy and praise his grandfather, according to someone who described the private encounter on the condition of anonymity.
Just how overheated a planet those two grandchildren half a world apart will inherit has hinged in part on the unusually warm bond between Kerry and Xie, whose relationship for the past decade and a half helped forge the globe's stutter-step progress in curbing climate change. Xie, 74, retired in December, and Kerry recently announced that he's stepping down soon.
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