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A warning against energy governance from Beijing
06-25-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT doctoral student in political science Edward Cunningham warns U.S. policy analysts that placing Beijing in the driver's seat of China's energy governance will lead at best to ineffective U.S. policies and, at worst, to perilously inaccurate forecasting.
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