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China's 'yes' to new role in climate battle

By: Qi Ye and Tong Wu President Xi Jinping's speech at the start of the Paris climate summit on Nov 30 was the most anticipated of the entire event. This was due not only to the commitments already made by the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, but more importantly came from the antic...

Post-Paris: Time to get back to reality

By: Qi Ye and Tong Wu The recent Paris climate change conference was a landmark success in global governance. The final accord has won widespread acclaim from the world’s media and politicians. After a series of high-stakes and high-profile negotiations, the resultant Paris agreement has ar...

MID/MIDG Students Visited Alibaba Group to Know China’s IT to DT Development

Today’s world is transforming from Information Technology era to Data Technology era. In order to help our 2015 MID/MIDG students to better understand how Alibaba Group is leading the Chinese e-commerce development and to learn how “internet +” promotes new theories. Therefore on the afternoon...

International Students Joined “Language Partner Program” Kickstart Activity

On December 11th, SPPM hosted the Language Partner program at the cafeteria in SPPM where a handful of Chinese and international students attended as the kickstart for this new academic year. During this event, students learned about each other and had meaningful conversation. With the relaxi...

United leadership creates historic opportunity for global climate governance

By Qi Ye (Director, Brookings-Tsinghua Center) and Wu Tong (Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) Although the wounds and pain from the recent terrorist attack have yet to heal, and new threats hover over the proceedings, world leaders decided to gather in Paris today to show t...

Putting China's coal consumption into context

By Qi Ye (Director, Brookings-Tsinghua Center) and Wu Tong (Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) Few issues are more likely to provoke interest about China—though often of a sensational and ill-informed variety—than its coal use and national statistics. The former evokes ima...