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Building the Chinese Carbon Market and Its Regional Connections

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The Avoidable War: The Decade of Living Dangerously

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Nature and Nurture: How the Biden Administration Can Advance Ties with India

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Building the Chinese Carbon Market and Its Regional Connections

Xi Jinping's Pivot to the State

Southeast Asia and COVID-19

Reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic and its political, economic, and strategic implications for Southeast Asia.

Catalyzing India’s Climate Ambition

Developing Effective Benchmark-Based Allocation for Industrial Sectors: The Case of the Korean ETS

The Avoidable War: The Decade of Living Dangerously

Short of War

How to Keep U.S.-Chinese Confrontation From Ending in Calamity

The China Dashboard | Winter 2021
Tracking China’s Economic Reform Program

Nature and Nurture: How the Biden Administration Can Advance Ties with India

New Interactive Website

A Partnership to Save the Planet:

Rebuilding U.S.-China Climate Cooperation
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China Wants to Join the Trade Pact Once Designed to Counter It

Wendy Cutler writes in Foreign Policy about China's bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
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America Must Return to the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Wendy Cutler writes in Foreign Affairs about the need for the Biden Administration to re-engage with the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Xi Jinping's Pivot to the State

Kevin Rudd's remarks on the impact of ideology, demography, and decoupling on China’s new economic policy framework
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Kevin Rudd Remarks to a Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs Virtual Seminar

Kevin Rudd delivered remarks in mandarin to a virtual seminar hosted by the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs.
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Ideological Competition With China Is Inevitable—Like It or Not

Nathan Levine writes in Foreign Policy about the inevitable ideological competition between China and the U.S.
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Why the Quad Alarms China

Kevin Rudd writes that the Quad's success poses a major threat to Beijing's ambitions.
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China’s Carbon Market Launch: Foundations, First Impressions and Future

Jackson Ewing, Environmental Defense Fund's Xiaolu Zhao, and SinoCarbon's Zhibin Chen discuss what China's just-launched emissions trading scheme will mean for climate change.
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The Biden Administration & U.S.-Australia Cooperation

Wendy Cutler is interviewed by Gordon Flake on the Biden Administration's Indo-Pacific trade policy and areas for collaboration between U.S. and Australia, among other issues.
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Kurt Campbell: U.S. and China Can Co-Exist Peacefully

The White House coordinator for the Indo-Pacific described the "enormously difficult" Sino-American relationship in a conversation with Kevin Rudd, Wendy Cutler, and Daniel Russel.

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Catalyzing India’s Climate Ambition

ASPI Senior Fellow Patrick Suckling sets out how the wider international community should sensitively, constructively, and intelligently work with India to catalyze greater climate ambition in the lead-up to COP26 and beyond.
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The Avoidable War: The Decade of Living Dangerously

Kevin Rudd writes on navigating the shoals of U.S.-China relations.
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Understanding American Voter Attitudes Toward U.S.-China Climate Cooperation

For the first time, polls indicate climate change is a top priority for U.S. voters. This joint report analyzes voter attitudes to cooperation with China on climate change.
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ASPI Notes for the Biden Administration

Creative and practical ideas for how the United States might re-engage in the Asia Pacific in the critical first six months of the new administration.
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Nature and Nurture: How the Biden Administration Can Advance Ties With India

Anubhav Gupta provides a blueprint for how the incoming U.S. administration can bolster U.S.-India ties.
The New Geopolitics of China’s Climate Leadership
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The New Geopolitics of China’s Climate Leadership

China has built up enormous goodwill in recent years for staying the course with the Paris Agreement. This essay outlines why climate leadership must remain an important geopolitical priority for China in the years ahead.
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U.S. and China Climate Goals: Scenarios for 2030 and Mid-Century

This joint report models various 2030 and mid-century emissions scenarios in the U.S. and China.
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Between War and Peace: A Roadmap for U.S. Policy Toward Iran

This ASPI issue paper examines the sources of tension in the U.S.-Iran relationship, lays out alternative scenarios that could unfold in the period ahead, and offers specific recommendations for U.S. policy toward Iran.
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Southeast Asia and COVID-19

Asia Society Policy Institute and Asia Society Australia examine the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means for Southeast Asia’s future.
TPP Roadmap
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Reengaging the Asia-Pacific on Trade: A TPP Roadmap for the Next U.S. Administration

Wendy Cutler lays out a roadmap for the next U.S. administration to reengage with the TPP.
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Weaponizing the Belt and Road Initiative

Report on BRI projects' strategic and military implications for China, the region, and the United States.
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Curbing State-Driven Trade Policies

How can international trade rules better address the trade distortions presented by industrial subsidies and other forms of state aid?
China's Response to Climate Change
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China’s Response to Climate Change: A Study in Contrasts and a Policy at a Crossroads

China’s response to climate change is a study in contrasts. This issue paper explains this and highlights a number of key climate-related decisions by the Chinese government in the coming 18-months that will reverberate globally.
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Climate Diplomacy under a New U.S. Administration

The United States is the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter. For that reason, the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November will have an undeniable impact on the future of the global climate change regime.

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With a problem-solving mandate, the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) tackles major policy challenges confronting the Asia-Pacific in security, prosperity, sustainability, and the development of common norms and values for the region. Learn more

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