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A couple of days after that post, there was an excellent analysis in the “FT” and I wrote a letter to the editor, alas unpublished.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 […]
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 […]
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 […]