It is hard to imagine that China could one day lead the world in going green when you look at the smog-filled skies that are everyday reality there. The governm

This is significant for human society.  In the past 20 years, though achievements have been made in the areas of education, alleviation of poverty etc., the pr

China has become in the last few years the world’s largest emitter of CO2, followed closely by the USA. It has a voracious use of natural resources – most fro

One of the few bright spots in recent international negotiations to replace the expiring 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ha

China’s government completed its Energy Saving and Emission Reduction（ESER）initiative for the “11th Five-year Plan” by the end of 2010. It achieved the goal by

In the United States, the Barack Obama administration is fighting to lift the national debt ceiling. In China, the huge debt owed by local governments has set o

In President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address, he called this “our generation’s Sputnik moment,” a reference to the era when the U.S. space program p

Climate change presents the world with massive and potentially devastating challenges. As the world’s two leading economic powerhouses, China and the United St

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s visit to China generated many stories in the press. His trip did not appear to be centered on “business”, but was v

Reactions worldwide to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accidents in Japan are another reminder that in the era of globalization a nuclear accident anywhere is a n