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For China, climate change is no hoax – it's a business and political opportunity

  • Written by Matthew Kahn, Professor of Economics, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageChinese President Xi Jinping, center, U.S. President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shake hands during a joint ratification of the Paris climate change agreement in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sept. 3, 2016How Hwee Young/Pool Photo via AP

In mid-November, while Americans were preoccupied with election returns, China sent...

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