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176103
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After more than twenty years of waiting, the first gas pipeline connecting Russia and China—the Power of Siberia—began transporting gas in December 2019. Although much has been discussed concerning disputes over pricing and the route of this pipeline, the relevant events inside each nation, e.g. China's energy mix transition, its gas pricing reform, the reshuffle of Russia's natural gas industry, etc., that helped catalyze the deal have yet to be fleshed out. This paper analyzes the decision-making behind the deal using the multiple streams framework (MSF) which is well suited for the examination of decision-making under circumstances of ambiguity. Our analysis demonstrates the ambiguous policymaking circumstances for the gas deal and reveals how policy disputes over price and routing paralleled and interacted with the changing political landscapes and shifting problem agendas in both nations before they were coupled together by political leaders in 2014. The insights derived here are also helpful in analyzing other cross-border pipeline deals.
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How did distributed solar power generation (DSPG) rise to prominence in China? Was there a causal link between China’s industrial policies and its achievements in solar photovoltaic (PV)? Drawing on regime research, this article responds to such inquiries by delving deeply into the development course of this sector and thereby illuminating the role of policy ‘niches’. Supplementing the dominant structural analyses that account for why industrial policies worked in China, insights generated from a regime analysis provide answers to the crucial question of how this specific industry came about and gained strength within China’s governing system. It was found that as carriers of policy directives, demonstration projects functioned as niches and the pertinent fruits generated therein were converged into the constituent ingredients of the new DSPG regime. But, this process owes its success more to fortuity than rationality. A processual analysis focusing on niche and regime shaping sheds light on some latent and nebulous aspects of industrial management in China such as policy legacies, layering, patching, and contingency.
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