Dr. Joshua Busby, Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar and CEPSA lead researcher, recently co-authored a journal article forEnergy Research & Social Science titled, “Turning the Carbon Supertanker: Sectoral Feasibility of Climate Change Mitigation in China.”
In the article, Dr. Busby and his colleagues, LBJ PhD candidate Xue Gao, and Sharang Shidore examine nine of the most carbon-intensive sectors in China’s economy, and assess the feasibility of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in each sector.
The authors analyzed the “techno-economic feasibility” as well as “political and organizational feasibility” for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the following sectors: steel, cement, coal, nuclear, renewables, fertilizers, buildings, oil refining, and transportation. The article describes a coding process for each sector that allowed the researchers to compare them based on factors such as costs of emission reduction and market fragmentation. The authors conclude that “collective action” to reduce emissions is most favorable in the oil refining sector as well as cement and steel sectors due to high techno-economic feasibility as well as political and organizational feasibility.
In partnership with UT Austin’s Asia Policy Program (APP), the Intelligence Studies Project’s (ISP) Tearline team published a report on Chinese construction of police training infrastructure in at least four countries — Nepal, Costa Rica, Samoa, and Uzbekistan — over the past 12 years. Construction of a police training facility is usually part of a wider, latticed outreach effort by...
Rana Siu Inboden, a Strauss Center Senior Fellow, co-authored an article with Anouk Wear in the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief Notes titled "'We're Coming For You': PRC Influence in UN Rights Bodies." The article examines how the PRC is placing its nationals on UN human rights bodies and directing funding toward mandates that align with its views. "Beijing is seeking greater influence in the...
Asia Policy Program Director Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens recently co-authored a paper for The Carnegie Endowment of International Peace examining how China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has transformed into a major global security actor. Since 2006, China has signed at least 205 police and security cooperation agreements with over seventy-four countries. Utilizing a new dataset of 170 bilateral and...