Welcome to China 360°, a bulletin featuring original insights from the scholars at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy’s 21st Century China Center to keep you informed about the complex and multidimensional developments in China and U.S.-China relations.
Issue 28: Nov. 30, 2022
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Risks of decoupling from China on low-carbon technologies

In this Science article, GPS professor Michael Davidson lays out the risks and costs of decoupling from China on key low-carbon technologies, demonstrating the risks of both integration and decoupling side by side.
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Quantifying The Role of Globalized Solar Photovoltaic Supply Chains in Reaching Climate Targets
In this piece in Nature, Michael Davidson delves deep into the costs and implications of policies to domestically manufacture solar modules, looking at the savings brought by the currently integrated global market and the estimated costs in that market breaking down.
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Refocusing U.S.-China Climate Relations
Michael Davidson writes for The Wire China examining how the U.S. should handle climate diplomacy while tensions with China remain high.
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The Cost of Going Solo in Solar
In this coauthored article, Michael Davidson lays out the financial costs U.S. manufacturers and consumers can expect to bear from a decoupling from China on solar technologies.
21st Century China Center