Recent reports from the Congressional Research Service concerning China include these (all pdf).
“Hong Kong: Ten Years After the Handover,” June 29, 2007.
“China’s Economic Conditions,” updated July 13, 2007.
“Taiwan: Major U.S. Arms Sales Since 1990,” updated July 12, 2007.
“China-U.S. Trade Issues,” updated July 11, 2007.
“China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy,” updated June 14, 2007.
“Food and Agricultural Imports from China,” updated July 17, 2007.
“The Southwest Pacific: U.S. Interests and China’s Growing Influence,” July 6, 2007.
“China’s Currency: A Summary of the Economic Issues,” updated July 11, 2007.
January saw us watching whether the government would fund science. February has been about how that funding will be distributed, regulated, and contested.
This rule gives agencies significantly more authority over certain career policy roles. Whether that authority improves accountability or creates new risks depends almost entirely on how agencies interrupt and apply it.
Our environmental system was built for 1970s-era pollution control, but today it needs stable, integrated, multi-level governance that can make tradeoffs, share and use evidence, and deliver infrastructure while demonstrating that improved trust and participation are essential to future progress.
Durable and legitimate climate action requires a government capable of clearly weighting, explaining, and managing cost tradeoffs to the widest away of audiences, which in turn requires strong technocratic competency.