China Pushes to Dig More Coal
With the U.S. expected to retreat from its role as a climate leader in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, many are hopeful that China will step in and lead the global emission reduction effort in the...
View ArticlePolluting Plants Shut by Officials Found Still in Use
A recent round of inspection checks by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has found that a number of factories that were ordered to shut down due to environmental violations have...
View ArticleThousands in Wuhan Protest Against Waste Incineration
Zhuang Pinghui at Inkstone News reports that thousands of residents in Wuhan’s Yangluo subdistrict have taken to the streets to protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant near...
View ArticleA Plenum, a Plan… and a Paramount Leader?
The fifth plenum of China’s 19th Party Congress, a gathering of leaders on the Party’s Central Committee, ended today, October 29. The proceedings happened behind closed doors but early reports suggest...
View ArticleChina’s Top Officials Clash Over Environment and Economics
China’s economic planners have wrested control over climate policy from bureaucrats in the environmental department, potentially jeopardizing efforts to meet emissions pledges made by Xi Jinping before...
View ArticleFloods Bring Disaster to Henan
At least 33 people have died due to flooding in Henan province. Hundreds of thousands more have been displaced, millions otherwise affected, and many remain missing. 24 inches of rain fell in the...
View ArticleU.S.-China Climate Change Talks Founder Over Xinjiang Sanctions
Chinese officials have warned John Kerry that deteriorating U.S.-China ties will impact bilateral cooperation on climate change. Kerry, who was in Tianjin for preliminary talks with his Chinese...
View ArticleNew Report Documents Human Rights Abuses in China’s Global Fishing Practices
The Environmental Justice Foundation, an environmental NGO based in London, released a new report, titled “The Ever-Widening Net: Mapping the Scale, Nature and Corporate Structures of Illegal,...
View ArticleZhengzhou Flood Anniversary: Censored Memorials and More Extreme Weather
This Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of floods in Henan on July 20, 2021, when historic levels of rainfall left almost 400 people dead and caused billions of dollars in property damage....
View ArticleSigns of Sino-U.S. Cooperation at COP27, But Climate Pledges Still Fall Short
At the halfway point of the COP27 international climate-change summit, there are encouraging signs that China and the U.S. may put aside geopolitical tensions in order to collectively stave off...
View ArticleInterview: Jeremy Wallace on the Chinese State’s “Limited, Quantified Vision”
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his new book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China. In a...
View ArticleLithium Mining Crackdown Highlights Environmental Woes
A crackdown on rural Jiangxi’s lithium sector that might snarl global supply chains has cast a spotlight on the conflict between rural economic development and environmental protection. Earlier this...
View ArticleCCTV Lauds Workers “Battling the Heat” For Xi Jinping’s Pet Project
A CCTV report posted to Bilibili celebrating construction workers laboring in extreme heat came under severe criticism online this week. The report focused on workers in Xiong’an, Xi Jinping’s pet...
View ArticleTranslation: Lu Dewen—“Bureaucratic Formalism Has Made It Impossible for...
In a recent essay, Lu Dewen (吕德文, Lǚ Déwén)—a sometimes controversial Wuhan University sociologist whose research focuses on rural governance—argues that bureaucratic formalism, meaningless busywork,...
View ArticleChina, COP28 Post Mixed Progress in Curbing Climate Change
This week in Dubai, after two weeks of negotiations among representatives from almost 200 countries, the COP28 climate summit closed on a “historic” note: an agreement that calls for “transitioning...
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