CHINA-WEST DIALOGUE
China-West Dialogue
About the China-West Dialogue (CWD)
The China-West Dialogue (CWD) is an inclusive project which draws together thought-leaders from China, Canada, Chile, Europe, the UK, Japan, Korea, and the United States. The CWD seeks to define an “alternative framework” for China-West relations at a moment when the toxic US-China bilateral relationship dominates geopolitics. Global governance issues in particular have been significantly hampered by these rising bilateral tensions.
The impacts of CWD to date have generated respect, trust, and common discourse among a highly diverse set of thought leaders. The CWD seeks to model what other dialogues are possible by including a fresh set of “key concepts”, themes and proposals for animating more productive official dialogues but also for “strengthening, upgrading and reforming” the G20. Through trust-building and generating open dialogue, the CWD aims to increase the effectiveness of the G20 in mobilizing policy responses to systemic crises and in managing geopolitical tensions.
The CWD’s fundamental goal is to help reshape the narratives and behaviours of US-China relations from friction to function by engaging other middle and major powers and emerging powers in a reframed China-West relations in G20 processes and other public forums. The aim of the Project is to identify new political dynamics that yield more productive relations in the international system.
The China-West Dialogue (CWD) is an inclusive project which draws together thought-leaders from China, Canada, Chile, Europe, the UK, Japan, Korea, and the United States. The CWD seeks to define an “alternative framework” for China-West relations at a moment when the toxic US-China bilateral relationship dominates geopolitics. Global governance issues in particular have been significantly hampered by these rising bilateral tensions.
The impacts of CWD to date have generated respect, trust, and common discourse among a highly diverse set of thought leaders. The CWD seeks to model what other dialogues are possible by including a fresh set of “key concepts”, themes and proposals for animating more productive official dialogues but also for “strengthening, upgrading and reforming” the G20. Through trust-building and generating open dialogue, the CWD aims to increase the effectiveness of the G20 in mobilizing policy responses to systemic crises and in managing geopolitical tensions.
The CWD’s fundamental goal is to help reshape the narratives and behaviours of US-China relations from friction to function by engaging other middle and major powers and emerging powers in a reframed China-West relations in G20 processes and other public forums. The aim of the Project is to identify new political dynamics that yield more productive relations in the international system.
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Proposal on Global Debt Management
For the CWD, the key question for 2023 is: Will the successful Bali G20 Summit become an enduring turning point, ratcheting up the level of involvement of all G20 member countries in increasing ambition and the delivery of outcomes?
Indonesia’s Successful G20 Summit: A Turning Point?
Read Colin Bradford's blogpost published by the EastAsiaForum (EAF) focusing on the success of the recent Bali G20 Summit
This Is How Biden Can Get the Edge Over China
Read Susan Thornton's article published in the New York Times.
Rebalancing China’s Energy Strategy
The Paulson Institute recently released a paper by Damien Ma entitled “Rebalancing China’s Energy Strategy” as the inaugural paper of the Paulson Institute’s Energy and Environment series. Ma provides a strong overview of the current energy situation in China and identifies a link between energy strategy and China’s commitments to climate change. Although his paper highlights key insights regarding Chinese energy strategy, there are a number of important implications these insights hold for Chinese climate change policy that the paper fails to touch upon.
Towards Better Carbon Pricing in China
This year, for the first time in 40 years, the world experienced an arrest in the seemingly exorable growth of CO2 emissions. Annual Chinese emissions also followed this trend, and the reduction in emissions is no doubt partly responsible for the overall bend in the curve on CO2 emissions. In fact, China experienced a 1% reduction in emissions, its first decline since 2001. This is a positive development, reflecting in part China’s major carbon intensity reductions. The effort resulted in a 5% reduction in carbon intensity during just the first half of 2014.
