The Limits to US-China Climate Cooperation — Minxin Pei

A rather balanced assessment from a person with sterling US establishment credentials. It doesn't take a genius to see that as long as the US and China are competing for military and economic advantage, real cooperation in addressing climate change is on hold. There will be lip service but no commitments.

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The Limits to US-China Climate Cooperation

Minxin Pei | Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, a non-resident senior fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and formerly a senior associate with the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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