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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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February 5, 2006
United States
Is national income accounting biased against the US?
In a fake news classic, Rob Corddry and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show once pondered how to report "the facts" when "the facts themselves were biased." Michael Mandel seems to think the facts are bia…
December 19, 2007
China
The alliance between China’s (nominally) communist government and Wall Street deepens …
The China investment corporation (the CIC) is investing $5b in Morgan Stanley, taking a 9.9% stake.That is a bit of a surprise, at least to me. After the CIC's (mark to market) losses on Blackstone…
December 17, 2010
China
Wouldn’t hold my breadth for IPR protection in China
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke (L) shakes hands with China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan in Hangzhou October 29, 2009. (Eugene Hoshiko/Courtesy Reuters) The two-day meeting of the U.S.-China Joint …
December 22, 2010
Politics and Government
Demographics and Destiny
The Census Bureau released the top-line results of the decennial census yesterday. The main message is unsurprising. There are more of us, we are older, we look less like the people who stepped o…
January 14, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Hu Is Coming
U.S. President Barack Obama meets China's President Hu Jintao in Seoul. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Chinese President Hu Jintao comes to Washington next week for his first visit …
