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  • Soy What? How China’s Growing Appetite is Transforming the Port of Oakland

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  October 19, 2015  //  By Susan Chan Shifflett

    As part of the Wilson Center and Circle of Blue’s Global Choke Point project, Choke Point: Port Cities will examine how Oakland, California, and Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, are responding to interlinked water, energy, and pollution challenges. These multimedia reports are meant to inform exchanges and convenings in 2016 to share among leaders of both cities and others like them around the Pacific Rim.

    There’s perhaps no better evidence of China’s growing appetite for American agricultural products than the ongoing transformation of the port of Oakland.

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  • China’s Water-Energy-Food Roadmap: A New Global Choke Point Report

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  March 30, 2015  //  By Susan Chan Shifflett
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    The creation of a water-energy research initiative in the landmark U.S.-China climate agreement last fall could be the beginning of a new and different path for Sino-U.S. collaboration.

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  • Two Decades Trying to Solve China’s Environmental Problems: An Interview With WWF’s Tao Hu

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    China Environment Forum  //  December 18, 2014  //  By Susan Chan Shifflett
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    Despite some critics, the recent U.S.-China agreement over carbon emissions has sparked remarkable optimism in global climate negotiations. It’s also opened the door to new bilateral engagement between the U.S. and Chinese environmental communities on other issues, including China’s massive air pollution problems (16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in China).

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  • Infographic: The Rise of U.S.-China Agricultural Trade

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    China Environment Forum  //  September 23, 2014  //  By Siqi Han & Susan Chan Shifflett
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    China faces a dilemma. It is home to 20 percent of the world’s population but only seven percent of the world’s water resources and nine percent of the world’s arable land. At the same time, a rising middle class is demanding more food. Over the last 30 years, China’s meat demand has quadrupled.

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  • Surf and Turf: The Environmental Impacts of China’s Growing Appetite for Pork and Seafood

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    China Environment Forum  //  May 7, 2014  //  By Susan Chan Shifflett
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    Half the world’s pigs – 476 million – reside in China. Increasingly prosperous consumers are eating fewer grains and demanding a more protein-rich diet, ballooning the pork industry to 15 times its 1960s-era size. In the last 30 years, Chinese demand for meat has quadrupled and China is now the largest consumer of seafood in the world.

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  • 20 Years After Doomsday Predictions, China Is Feeding Itself, But Global Impacts Remain Unclear

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  March 3, 2014  //  By Susan Chan Shifflett

    How has China managed to feed nearly one-quarter of the world’s population with only seven percent of the world’s arable land?

    In 1995, Lester Brown forecasted doom and gloom for China’s ability to produce enough grain for its people, in his popular book, Who Will Feed China? He hypothesized that China would be forced to buy grain from abroad, thereby seriously disrupting world food markets.

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  • Can China Solve Its Water-Energy Choke Point? Wilson Center Launches ‘China Environment Series 12’

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  January 16, 2014  //  By Susan Chan Shifflett
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    Factories in China’s Pearl River Delta tick-tock around the clock, rapidly churning out gadgets from iPhones and Barbie dolls to forks and light bulbs, shipped off to village shops in Uganda and super Walmarts in America’s sprawling suburbs. But far from the global consumer’s view, manufacturing and rapid development are placing unrelenting pressure on China’s environment.

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  • China’s Environmental Crisis Through the Lens: Interview With Photojournalist Sean Gallagher

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    China Environment Forum  //  September 24, 2013  //  By Susan Chan Shifflett
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    China is one of the world’s 12 “mega-biodiversity” countries, but its incredible natural landscapes, from Sichuan’s sparkling, turquoise-colored lakes to Guilin’s dramatic karst topography, are bearing the cost of rapid economic development, writes British environmental photojournalist and videographer Sean Gallagher in a new multimedia e-book.

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