Financing Energy Efficiency in China

Removing barriers to clean energy investment in China may contribute more to climate protection than any global climate treaty. The incentives and rules of such a treaty will be blunted and frustrated by distortions of the world’s largest potential clean energy marketplace unless policy makers recognize and deal with the realities of that market.This paper describes problem areas and suggests policy adjustments for domestic and international cooperation to reduce the growth of greenhouse gas emissions in China.

Source: 3103book.p65 – chandler_clean_energy_final.pdf

 

Chinese Corporate Governance: History and Institutional Framework

Yong Kang, Lu Shi, and Elizabeth D. Brown review the history of Chinese corporate governance; discuss eight pillars that make up the institutional framework for Chinese corporate governance; and identify problems associated with Chinese corporate governance, their policy implications, and areas for further research.

Source: Chinese Corporate Governance: History and Institutional Framework | RAND

“The People of the PLA 2.0” by Roy Kamphausen

To succeed in future “informatized” wars, the PLA recognizes it must improve its members’ education level. It seeks to leverage better China’s civilian education system while also addressing legacy issues that frustrate professional military education and the care of its veterans. The PLA is also reforming joint education and seeking insight from its exchanges and interactions with other nations’ militaries. The revamping of its academic institutions to support better its most technical and advanced entities for network warfare and other operations is indicative of the PLA’s fast-paced evolution.

Source: “The People of the PLA 2.0” by Roy Kamphausen Mr.

Communist China’s Policy Toward Laos: A Case Study, 1954-67

Link: Communist China’s Policy Toward Laos: A Case Study, 1954-67

A 1970 study of Laos and its historically fraught position in Southeast Asia. As the single most formative period in the tiny nation’s modern history, this work is essential in understanding the country’s prospects and the role it plays in the region today.

China: The Next Science Superpower

Certain slogans and concepts have defined different periods in China’s history:‘serve the people’ in Mao’s time; ‘reform and opening’ and ‘the four modernisations’ during the Deng Xiaoping period; ‘the three represents’ of Jiang Zemin; and under Hu Jintao phrases like ‘the peaceful rise’ and ‘the harmonious society’. Zizhuchuangxin looks set to become another period-defining mantra. Policy-makers have decided that independent innovation is what China needs. It is no longer enough to import or copy high-end technologies from the US and Europe. If China is to find the place it wants in the world economy it needs to create its own technologies that can support future waves of economic growth.

Source: untitled – China_Final.pdf

A little old but there are still some good nuggets to be mined within. Eds.

Contemporary Chinese Views of Europe

This study aims to highlight, in particular, that:The Chinese feel Europe lacks a strategic vision and suffers from internal discord, which impedes its credibility in world affairs. Europe simply does not exist as a political centre of power, especially compared with the United States.

Source: Contemporary Chinese Views of Europe

Conflict with China

RAND Report: Conflict with China: Prospects, Consequences, and Strategies for Deterrence