Next Thursday at China Environment Forum 中国环境论坛!!

Climate relations at a crossroads. 🌍 Join us on 01/23 at 10AM EST to explore the future of 🇺🇸-🇨🇳collaboration on climate action with Joanna Lewis, Cecilia Springer, and Kate Logan. 🔗RSVP: bit.ly/40tWHqu

Join SFS Dean Joel S. Hellman and a panel of SFS faculty at 4 pm, tomorrow, in the ICC Auditorium to unpack Trump’s Day 1 speeches & executive orders on immigration, climate, trade & the State Dept. GU ID required.

We are delighted to publish working papers by the Climate & Environment team of this year's fellowship cohort, available at global.upenn.edu/future-of-us-c…. And please join us for a live webinar featuring these authors tomorrow 1/23 from 4-5 pm ET, registration link at the QR code below:

“Chinese tech companies are increasingly becoming tech Swiss Army knives, starting in one industry but then quickly branching out into a range of adjacent tech domains.” Xiaomi -> EVs DJI -> LiDAR Li Auto -> robots Baidu -> AVs My High Capacity piece: high-capacity.com/p/chinas-overl…

Here is the video recording of the terrific discussion earlier today featuring our second fellowship cohort’s Climate & Environment team Michael Davidson Joanna Lewis Kate Logan, presenting their working policy papers, expertly moderated by Alex Wang: youtube.com/watch?v=nNZT6H…

Looking forward to it!

China climate and environment scholars - please consider applying to Penn's excellent fellowship on the future of US-China relations. It was an honor to be a part of such a great cohort this past year. Details below:

Many thanks to today's POLITICO China Watcher contributors Alexander C. Huang 中國國民黨 KMT Liu Pengyu 刘鹏宇 Ker Gibbs edezenski FDD Joanna Lewis Noah Kaufman Rep. Brian Mast House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority Jacob Gunter Robin Quinville Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) politico.eu/newsletter/chi…

SFS Prof Joanna Lewis spoke to @Time about the recent rollbacks from the Trump Administration in the clean energy industry, warning that delaying investments could mean ceding ground to China. Read more: bit.ly/4kmEvXF

The exact topic of my STIA student’s thesis! foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/04/aut…

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Chinese battery maker Gotion tried to build factories in two US towns. One town, badly in need of manufacturing jobs, fought back, accusing the company of being a CCP ploy. The other town now has a new battery plant in operation that promises to create 2,600 jobs. New article

Happening now @MoraraCenter - the STIA Maloy Distinguished Lecture in Global Health with Dr Zaher Sahloul. Georgetown SFS

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On this week's new episode of SHIFT KEY... Robinson Meyer and Jesse D. Jenkins chat with Joanna Lewis and John Paul Helveston about the industrial policy that made China a powerhouse for clean energy. Listen below, or wherever you get your podcasts. heatmap.news/podcast/shift-…