Meeting

Virtual Roundtable: Chinese Global Environmentalism

Monday, February 10, 2025
REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
Speaker
Alex Wang

Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Presider
Jerome A. Cohen

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

from Winston Lord Roundtable Series on Asia, the Rule of Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy and Asia Program

Alex L. Wang, professor of law at the UCLA School of Law, and Jerome A. Cohen, adjunct senior fellow for Asia Studies at CFR, discuss the story of China’s embrace of green development on the global stage.

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