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Why COP-29 Proved Nuclear Energy is Essential for a Green Future

Nov. 19, 2024 by Natia Gamkrelidze and Andrei Covatariu

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Back to Bipolarity: How China’s Rise Transformed the Balance of Power

Fall 2024 by Jennifer Lind
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Chinese Views of Strategic Stability: Implications for U.S.-China Relations

Fall 2024 by David C. Logan
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China’s Openness About its Latest Nuclear Missile Test Shows Growing Confidence Vis-à-Vis the United States

Oct. 16, 2024 by Hui Zhang

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Why COP-29 Proved Nuclear Energy is Essential for a Green Future

Nov. 19, 2024 by Natia Gamkrelidze and Andrei Covatariu

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from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Back to Bipolarity: How China’s Rise Transformed the Balance of Power

Fall 2024 by Jennifer Lind

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from International Security

A staff member gestures to a delegate during a session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, March 10, 2023.

Chinese Views of Strategic Stability: Implications for U.S.-China Relations

Fall 2024 by David C. Logan

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from International Security

Fu Cong, center, the director general of the Foreign Ministry's arms control department, attends a press conference on nuclear arms control in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022.

China’s Openness About its Latest Nuclear Missile Test Shows Growing Confidence Vis-à-Vis the United States

Oct. 16, 2024 by Hui Zhang

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from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Health Co-Benefits of Post-COVID-19 Low-Carbon Recovery in Chinese Cities

Aug. 28, 2024 by Chenxi Lu, Yingjian Huang, Ying Yu, Jiawei Hu, Huibin Mo, Yun Li, Da Huo, Xuanren Song, Xiaoting Huang, Yun Sun, Kai Liu, Shaohui Zhang, Karyn Morrissey, Jinpyo Hong, Zhu Deng, Zhuanjia Du, Felix Creutzig and Zhu Liu

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from Nature Cities

The Politics of China's Just Transition and the Shift Away from Coal

September 2024 by Weila Gong and Joanna Lewis

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from Energy Research & Social Science

Workers load coal from a truck at a process station for sale in Tangxian in China's Hebei province.

Let China Pay the Cost of Solar Energy and Electric Vehicles

Jun. 28, 2024 by Jeffrey Frankel

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A Just Transition for Coal Regions: Learning from Two Coal Cities in Western China

Jun. 18, 2024 by Yingxia Yang, Wenjuan Dong and Jiejie Hui

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from Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University

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