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Book Talk: China Goes Green--Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro Discuss China's Coercive Environmentalism
December 23, 2020 In this post,Chinasresourcerisks.com introduces "Book Talk," a series of ongoing posts based on interviews with authors...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Dec 23, 20207 min read


LNG Deal Fuels Hopes for U.S.-China Trade
November 16, 2020 Graphic: S&P Global Platts Three days after the U.S. presidential election, Foran Energy Group, an independent Chinese...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Nov 16, 20204 min read


Reading the Soy Leaves: What Soybean Imports Say about China's 2020 Election Preferences
Photo: Dominic Reisig and Wes Everman Which candidate do Chinese leaders hope will win the 2020 U.S. presidential election: Donald Trump...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Oct 25, 20206 min read


Mining for Trouble: The Resources at Stake in the China-India Border Dispute
Map: The Conversation September 29, 2020 What is at stake in the recent Sino-Indian border clashes? Competing efforts to build roads,...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Sep 29, 20206 min read


Pipeline "Khanfluence": Power of Siberia 2 to Go Through Mongolia to China
Trans-Mongolian Route for Power of Siberia 2 September 15, 2020 The Power of Siberia pipeline is finally shipping Russian gas to China as...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Sep 15, 20205 min read


China in a Belarus Pickle
Photo: BelarusFeed September 6th 2020 The massive ongoing protests starting in August 2020 in capital city Minsk and throughout the...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Sep 6, 20204 min read


Raring to Go Mining in Greenland: Shenghe and the Kvanefjeld Rare Earth Project
Kvanefjeld Rare Earth Project August 30, 2020 Despite its small population (56,000) and remote location, Greenland has been attracting a...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Aug 31, 20205 min read


Waist Not Want Not
#光盘行动# Chinese Communist Youth League "Operation Clean Plate" gets 620 million views on Weibo. A panda at the Chengdu reserve fully...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Aug 23, 20204 min read


Fish out of Water Lead to Water out of Fish? A Chinese Flotilla Looms over the Galapagos Islands
August 17, 2020 When plastic bottles with Chinese lettering appeared on the shores of the inhabited Galapagos Islands in mid-July of...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Aug 16, 20205 min read


Record Floods Test the Three Gorges Dam
Photo by Wishnick and Robertson August 10, 2020 The reservoir of China's Three Gorges Dam filled up to within 11 meters (36 feet) of its...

Elizabeth Wishnick
Aug 10, 20203 min read