Climate Change Presents Opportunity for Beijing to Expand Global Power: Chinese Professor

Climate Change Presents Opportunity for Beijing to Expand Global Power: Chinese Professor
Smoke billows from stacks as Chinese men pull a tricycle in a neighborhood next to a coal fired power plant in Shanxi, China, on Nov. 26, 2015. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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The Chinese communist regime views climate change as an opportunity to expand its influence worldwide, according to a prominent Chinese academic.

The global emissions reduction agenda can boost the regime economically and also holds “political significance” for Beijing, Di Dongsheng, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, wrote in his blog on April 27.
Nicole Hao is a Washington-based reporter focused on China-related topics. Before joining the Epoch Media Group in July 2009, she worked as a global product manager for a railway business in Paris, France.
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