Tag Energy

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CPEC

Can CPEC Meet Pakistan’s Development Goals?

Supporters of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor have long argued that the initiative would spur development and improve Pakistan’s macroeconomic fortunes. As Pakistan faces its thirteenth IMF bailout in the last thirty years, it is clear that without serious reforms, the debt incurred to fund CPEC could do more economic harm than good.

BRI energy projects

China’s Evolving Energy Ambitions

Jonathan Hillman joins Jane Nakano and Nikos Tsafos for the CSIS Energy and National Security Program’s Energy 360° Podcast to look at the importance of energy projects in the BRI, changing expectations from BRI partners, and what defines a successful BRI project for China.

Global Infrastructure

The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge

Over the next 15 years, more hard infrastructure is projected to be built around the world than currently exists. As our infrastructure is transformed, so will be the economies it fuels, the regions it connects, and the global commons it underpins. These trends are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop, and too consequential to ignore.

China’s Clean Energy Challenge

China’s Global Energy Interconnection (GEI) initiative is an ambitious vision for transforming the global energy system that pairs a pitch for climate leadership with Beijing’s industrial policy priorities. As China makes a play for green leadership in global energy governance, the U.S. needs to present a positive agenda of its own for the clean-energy transition.