Abstract The most plausible justification for possessing nuclear weapons is deterrence – deterring the first use of the nuclear weapon by others and responding in…
Country or Region: China
Abstract Current policies and strategies related to the utilization of densified biomass fuel (DBF) in China are mainly focused on medium- or large-scale manufacturing modes,…
Continue reading Shan, Ming, Dingkai Li, Yi Jiang, and Xudong Yang
Abstract This paper examines the impact of increasing intra-state conflict in the Asia Pacific on domestic, regional and international security. It focuses on secessionist conflicts…
Abstract To help overcome the challenge of growing CO2 emissions, China is experimenting with market-based instruments, including pilot CO2 emissions trading systems (ETSs) in seven…
Continue reading Munnings, Clayton, Richard D. Morgenstern, Zhongmin Wang, and Xu Liu
Abstract China has made strategic choices favouring renewables over fossil fuels that are still not widely understood or appreciated. Hao Tan and I have been…
Abstract The USA is a leading country while China is an up-and-coming one in nanotechnology. We carried out a cross-country comparative study on policy and…
Abstract In China, the national target for energy intensity reduction, when integrated with target disaggregation and information feedback systems, constitutes a numerical management system, which…
Continue reading Li, Huimin, Xiaofan Zhao, Yuqing Yu, Tong Wu, and Ye Qi
Abstract America is learning that the South China Sea is called the South “China” Sea for a reason, despite patriotic efforts in various nations to…
Abstract Sino‐US relations are the most problematic of all the great power relationships in the Asia‐Pacific region, and in that relationship it is the question…
Abstract The link between energy, economic development and national security has often made governments reluctant to address energy in global governance. In the United Nations…
Abstract Following the revival of interest in a deliberate process of reduction in the nuclear arsenals, eventually to zero, this article looks at a dimension…
Abstract Space heating energy consumption in urban residential areas of the hot summer and cold winter zones (HSCW) in China has increased dramatically during the…
Abstract China hosts a large amount of building stocks, which is nearly 50 billion square meters. Moreover, annual new construction is growing fast, representing half…
Abstract Climate change presents much of the world, and possibly most of it in the long term, with chronic human insecurity. More than any other…
Abstract More than two billion people in India and China are only now emerging from a life of drudgery and abject poverty. A billion more…
