Fractured Extraction: Shifts in China’s Rare Earths Policy – A Green Tea Chat with Cory Combs and Jessica DiCarlo
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In the mid-1980s, Deng Xiaoping said, “The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths,” an observation that led China on a path to later dominate global mineral processing. Join us in a conversation with Cory Combs (Trivium China) and Jessica DiCarlo (University of Utah) to explore how China is shaking up the governance of its domestic rare earth production in response to the global demand for clean energy technologies. Rare earth production, once seen as a cheap and polluting industry by Chinese policymakers, is now reframed as crucial for sustainable development. Over tea we will talk about policies and local-center tensions around this acceleration in China’s domestic rare earth development.
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Assistant Professor, University of Utah
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China Environment Forum
Since 1997, the China Environment Forum's mission has been to forge US-China cooperation on energy, environment, and sustainable development challenges. We play a unique nonpartisan role in creating multi-stakeholder dialogues around these issues. Read more
Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more
Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
The Kissinger Institute works to ensure that China policy serves American long-term interests and is founded in understanding of historical and cultural factors in bilateral relations and in accurate assessment of the aspirations of China’s government and people. Read more