In the past 30 years, meat consumption has increased by 30% in many parts of China, while grain consumption has decreased by about 35%, playing a significant role in the more than 300 million people who have heart disease. At the same time, “rates of type 2 diabetes in China have exploded in the last couple of decades” to about 110 million people, according to the...
Dominic De BernardoCPI Intern In the fall and early winter of 2019, as the novel coronavirus (now COVID-19) was spreading intensely but tacitly within the Chinese province of Hubei, word of the disease was spreading less rigorously but just as furtively throughout the country. The Chinese government was keen to maintain a sense of stability and calmness among its...
US Must Take Back Pharma Production From China
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Jim DeMint – I’ve changed my mind about China. America should too.
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When President Donald Trump assumes that any policy to curb greenhouse-gas emissions must be bad for economic growth, job creation and U.S. competitiveness, he has things backwards. This miscalculation extends to U.S. trade policy, the central focus of Trump’s meeting this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump says he wants to shrink America’s trade deficit...
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The United States has an advantage over China in producing goods and services at lower rates of carbon emissions, a GOP-backed group said in a new report Wednesday aimed at winning over Republicans skeptical of carbon taxes. Right now, there are no policies in place to reward U.S. companies for producing less carbon than competitors. But the report, published by the...
Last month, two veteran diplomats met in Shanghai to renew a 20-year-old working relationship and hammer out the text of a sensitive joint communiqué. The communiqué in question — the joint US-China statement addressing the climate crisis — reconfirmed the two countries’ commitment to working together to meet the Paris climate goals. The two men who signed it — John...
As the European Union contemplates a carbon border-adjustment mechanism, the U.S. has everything to gain from moving first to establish the new rules around climate and trade (“Here Come the Climate Protectionists,” Review & Outlook, July 12). The U.S. economy is dramatically more carbon efficient than most of our key trading partners. This means U.S...
Today OpenSFS announced the expansion of the Lustre User Group (LUG) conferences to the Asia-Pacific Region (APAC). The first Asian LUGs will take place in Beijing, China, on October 15, 2013, followed by Tokyo, Japan, on October 17, 2013. There’s really no substitute for face-to-face technical discussions with plenty of chance for in depth back-and-forth...