A food safety factory shutdown has Americans hunting for baby formula. Readying themselves for a covid-19 lockdown, Chinese in Beijing emptied store shelves. Emerging from lockdown, some in Shanghai are visiting well-provisioned markets. U.S.-China agricultural trade is booming, but many are still being left hungry. Food security, sustainability and safety remain issues.
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Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, US-China Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change, Sept. 25, 2015
September 25, 2015
President Barack Obama and Xi Jinping issued a joint announcement on what the U.S. and China will do to support an ambitious agreement at the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference. They issued this statement in Washington, D.C.
Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, Joint Press Conference, September 25, 2015
September 25, 2015
Remarks by President Obama and President Xi of the People's Republic of China in Joint Press Conference
Rose Garden 12:22 P.M. EDT
Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, U.S.-China Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change, Nov. 12, 2014
November 12, 2014
Meeting in Beijing, Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping made a joint announcement regarding climate change and 2015 U.N. Climate Conference in Paris. The statement was issued in Beijing.
John Kerry, Getting the U.S.-China Climate Partnership Right, July 19, 2013
July 19, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry begins by noting President Richard Nixon’s famous 1972 handshake with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.
"US-China Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Cooperation on Climate Change, Energy, and the Environment," July 28, 2009
July 28, 2009
Agreed to at the conclusion of the first round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, Washington, DC, July 28, 2009.
Todd Stern, Remarks on the U.S. Delegation's June 7-10 Trip to China to Discuss Climate and Energy Issues, June 12, 2009
June 12, 2009
Stern is U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s special envoy for climate change.
Meeting China's Climate Goals
The Center on Global Energy Policy and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law host a discussion on Meeting China's Climate Goals
Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Change
University of California, Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies hosts a talk with Julie Sze
Knowledge of and Vulnerability to Climate Change among Pastoralists in Central Tibet
The UCLA Asia Institute hosts a talk by Emily Yeh to discuss findings about Tibetan pastoralists’ knowledge of climate change, as well as factors leading to vulnerability to climate change, based on an interdisciplinary project conducted in Nagchu, in the northern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, PRC.
Integrating Local Knowledge with Ecosystem Science to Understand the Causes and Consequences of Environmental Change in Tibet
UCLA Asia Institute hosts a talk with Kelly Hopping.
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