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Nov 19, 2024 | 
bigdatachina.csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco |Ryan Featherston
China’s industrial policy is a controversial yet ubiquitous topic. Global concerns are surging over Beijing’s use of state support to shape industries and to guide investment. In the United States, concerns over China’s systemic use of industrial policy and accusations of structural overcapacity have undermined trust in multilateralism and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco
U.S.-China technological competition is widespread and complex, but there is one technological sphere with a clear leader: Chinese companies are increasingly outperforming competitors in cost and quality when it comes to established clean technologies ranging from solar panels and lithium-ion batteries to electric vehicles (EVs).
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco |Ryan Berg |Rubi Bledsoe
The IssueCountries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are navigating a new geopolitical moment. Some LAC countries are benefitting from increased access to low-cost, high-quality electric vehicles (EVs) and new investment throughout the value chain from China that can help meet governments’ climate and economic objectives.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
bigdatachina.csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco |Scott Kennedy
Featured Scholars Martin K. Whyte Martin K. Whyte is the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus. He was Professor of Sociology at Harvard from 2000 to 2015. Previously, he taught at the University of Michigan and George Washington University. His research and teaching specialties are comparative sociology, sociology of the family, sociology of development, the sociological study of contemporary China, and the study of post-communist transitions.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
bigdatachina.csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco
Ever since China began integrating into the global economy and shifting away from a planned economy in the late 1970s, domestic and foreign observers have closely tracked the development of the country’s emerging private sector to better understand the relationship between state and business, the country’s progress towards modernization, and the implications for the international system.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco
The IssueIn the United States, the rise of the economic-climate agenda and green industrial policy has coincided with growing attention to supply chain resilience, economic security, and a deteriorating U.S.-China relationship. As a consequence, the interaction between trade, geopolitics, domestic economic policy, and climate policy demands a new holistic approach from policymakers and civil society to find more politically sustainable and effective policy solutions.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco
The Climate, Trade, and Security NexusThree spheres of policy that until recently were thought of as more separate have been merging in ways that are reshaping the future of the energy transition in the United States and beyond. National security, economic policy, and climate policy are becoming increasingly interlinked as economic security becomes a priority in Washington and capitals around the world. Climate technology supply chains in particular have become more and more securitized.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco |Andrea PALAZZI
On December 6, 2023, the Italian government formally announced that Italy will not renew the 2019 memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding its formal participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This move effectively withdraws Italy from President Xi Jinping’s flagship diplomatic initiative first announced a decade ago.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco
The IssueThe concentration of climate technology supply chains in China has raised security and economic concerns in Europe and may lead to increasing trade measures to limit dependencies on Chinese exports. Enacting diversification and derisking policies will require careful evaluation of actual security and economic risks, which vary significantly across technologies like solar photovoltaics and lithium-ion batteries.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
csis.org | Ilaria Mazzocco
Members of the Commission, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today and testify on the state of China’s electric vehicle industry, its internationalization, and its implications for the United States and the world. The shift towards electric vehicles (EVs) is already reshaping the automotive sector, calling into question the future of companies that have led the industry for decades, and bringing new geopolitical challenges to the forefront.
