CSR Blog: The Sixth Generation Leaders Poised to Continue Xi’s Legacy

By Joe Bauer As Xi Jinping 习近平 strode onto stage in October 2017 with six men in tow, observers were quick to point out that not a single one belonged to what is commonly known as China’s “sixth generation” of leadership. The seven men on stage together formed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Politburo Standing …

CSR Blog: China’s Incursion into Energy Sectors of Latin American Hydrocarbon Giants

By Matthew Hughes As part of China’s “energy diplomacy” to “secure long-term access to energy resources,” most of its investments in Latin America have been in resources and energy,[1] especially among the region’s hydrocarbon giants Brazil (which produced 3.67 million BPD of petroleum and other liquids in 2019), Mexico (1.92 million BPD), and Venezuela (0.93 …

CSR Blog: How Local Politics Might Undermine China’s Environmental Policy Ambition

By Zhuoran Li Since the “Reform and Open Up” that began in 1978, China has achieved magnificent economic development. China’s real annual GDP grew 9.5 percent on average from 1979 to 2018. The World Bank describes the growth of China as “the fastest sustained expansion by a major economy in history.”[1] The economic growth not …

CSR Blog: Covid Diplomacy- a New Ground for Competition among China, the U.S. and Japan in Southeast Asia

By Natalie Craig For fourteen months, world leaders have altered their foreign policy plans to handle the COVID-19 pandemic leading to a new form of diplomacy – Covid diplomacy. Countries influential in Southeast Asia such as the United States, China and Japan have engaged in various diplomatic efforts in the region throughout the pandemic with …

CSR Blog: COVID-19 Exposes Decade-Long Blood Shortage in China

By Liu Zhuoran China’s blood shortage is not a new topic in public health discussions, but the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted this unsolved problem once again. As the nationwide lockdown began in the first half of 2020, the vast majority of cities faced a severe blood shortage compared to previous years. It was reported from Caixin …