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Beijing, China

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

https://www.google.com/maps/place/China

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China - News from the Guardian

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http://www.lonelyplanet.com/china

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INDC

Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions

China's INDC plan - http://www4.unfccc.int/submissions/INDC/Published%20Documents/China/1/China's%20INDC%20-%20on%2030%20June%202015.pdf

[EN Translation] http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/xwzx/xwfb/201506/W020150630783447810119.doc / [Fact Sheet] http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/chinas-contributions-paris-climate-agreement.pdf

Data Points: China committed to the following actions by 2030:

• Peaking of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and making best efforts to peak early;

• Lowering carbon dioxide intensity (carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP) by 60 to 65 percent from the 2005 level;

• Increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 20 percent; and

• Increasing the forest stock volume by around 4.5 billion cubic meters from the 2005 level.

Based on analysis by some of the world’s leading energy institutes, China’s INDC represents a significant undertaking beyond business-as-usual and will help slow the rise in global greenhouse gas emissions. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), International Energy Agency (IEA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tsinghua University, peaking carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 would reduce China’s emissions by at least 1.7 Gt or 14 percent from the most optimistic business-as-usual (BAU) scenario

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Geo-political News

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Asian_Infrastructure_Investment_Bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank]

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China's Eurasia Strategy

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Eurasia

China-Pakistan 'Silk Road' extension

http://csis.org/publication/building-chinas-one-belt-one-road

Building China’s “One Belt, One Road”

Center for Strategic & International Studies / APR 3, 2015

On March 28, China’s top economic planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), released a new action plan outlining key details of Beijing’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative. Chinese president Xi Jinping has made the program a centerpiece of both his foreign policy and domestic economic strategy. Initially billed as a network of regional infrastructure projects, this latest release indicates that the scope of the “Belt and Road” initiative has continued to expand and will now include promotion of enhanced policy coordination across the Asian continent, financial integration, trade liberalization, and people-to-people connectivity. China’s efforts to implement this initiative will likely have an important effect on the region’s economic architecture—patterns of regional trade, investment, infrastructure development—and in turn have strategic implications for China, the United States, and other major powers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

https://www.google.com/maps/place/China

http://csis.org/publication/building-chinas-one-belt-one-road

Climate Change

http://strategicdemands.com/wartimes-6/

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Military

http://strategicdemands.com/wartimes-arms-salesarms-race/

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