David Victor article featured in Stanford Journal
What Can America Do with China?
03/31/2010
David G. Victor,
Defining Ideas
Serious solutions to the twin problems of energy security and global climate change hinge on the actions of China and the United States, which are the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide, the main human cause of global warming, and the largest users of oil. Other countries matter, but China and the United States are pivotal. Governments in both countries know this and have thus created an ever-growing array of mechanisms for engagement. The efforts at engagement so far have not achieved much, with the few real achievements in highly specialized areas that are not readily scaled up to serious and broad interaction on energy and environmental topics. Before fruitful negotiations get under way, we need to explore where and how China and the United States could engage with each other.
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David Victor is director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
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