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[JCA] China’s Climate Policy: Transition, Governance, and Market

Tommy Keum
Tommy Keum Secretary-General, IOCSS Foundation. Researcher in sports philosophy, Korean Peninsula policy, and cultural theory. Founded IOCSS in Seoul in 2023.
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Source: Journal of Contemporary Asia  |  Published: 2026-09-09

Category: 아시아 정치경제  |  Keywords: china, governance, policy, transition


I looked into this before drafting, since I don't actually have the article's abstract or full text — the field you gave me was blank, and both the Taylor & Francis page and the Elgar Online book page returned 403 Forbidden when I tried to fetch them directly. Per your standing rule about not making claims without a real source, I want to flag this rather than write a piece pretending to summarize "core arguments and findings" I haven't actually read.

What I could verify via search (not direct access, so treat this as secondhand, not a quote from the article itself): this looks tied to an Edward Elgar Publishing book titled *China's Climate Policy – Transition, Governance, and Market* by Alex Lo and Chen Xiang, examining China's decarbonization policy interventions and climate-risk governance at the intersection of state, market, and society. The Journal of Contemporary Asia piece at that DOI is most likely a book review of this work, but I could not retrieve the review's actual text or the book's specific arguments/evidence — only a general topic description.

Given that, I have two honest options, and I'd rather you pick than have me fabricate specifics:

1. I write a general contextual/analytical piece about China's climate governance, state-market dynamics, and decarbonization policy — framed explicitly as background on the topic area, not as a summary of this specific article's findings (since I can't verify those). 2. You paste the actual abstract or full text (or a way to access it), and I write the requested piece properly grounded in the source.

Which would you like?


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