China's environmental policy and its strategies for action in the local and international market were some of the points developed by University of California School of Law scholar Alex L. Wang in the talk "Chinese global enviromentalism: origins and implicationsheld on May 29 at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
The activity developed jointly by the Center for Asian Studies UC (CEAUC), the Center for International Studies UC (CEIUC) and the Millennium Nucleus Impacts of China in Latin America and the Caribbean (ICLAC) was attended by ICLAC senior researcher, Johannes Rehner and adjunct researcher, Nicole Jenne.
According to Wang, China has seen a marked acceleration of initiatives focused on improving the country's environmental situation, such as the development and strengthening of renewable energy companies.
Chile has seen this interest closely through Chinese investments in the lithium industry for the manufacture of electric vehicles, a market in which the Asian country has so far positioned itself as a global leader.
For the researcher, this strategy responds to an interest in increasing access to natural resources and strengthening its investments in the international context, while at the same time presenting itself as an economic power committed to global environmental objectives and agreements.
Considering China's presence in the domestic and Latin American markets, the academic is currently studying how this shift towards green policies has affected its regional investments.
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