+China | March 13, 2012
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Raring to Fight: The U.S. Tangles with China over Rare-Earth Exports

By Bryan Walsh

President Obama has been talking tough about what he sees as unfair Chinese trade policy since at least this year’s State of the Union speech, when the President boasted that his Administration had brought up trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate of his predecessor. (In former President George W. Bush’s defense, there was [...]

+Climate Negotiations | September 29, 2010

Climate Change: U.S. and China—Faraway, So Close

By Bryan Walsh

The UN climate change negotiations have fallen off the news map since last year’s summit in Copenhagen ended in barely avoided disarray, but that doesn’t mean they’ve gone away. China will be hosting interim talks for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Tianjin starting on Oct. 4. That meeting will be [...]