The Belt and Road Podcast

Still Outsourcing Coal But Striving for Solar: Chinese Energy Investments in Cambodia - Lili pike

January 09, 2020 Erik Myxter-iino and Juliet Lu Episode 23
The Belt and Road Podcast
Still Outsourcing Coal But Striving for Solar: Chinese Energy Investments in Cambodia - Lili pike
Show Notes

In this episode, Erik talks with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow at NYU Journalism Institute -  Lili Pike about China's involvement in Cambodia's energy sector, including an incredible story of a private Chinese furniture manufacturer who bought a closed-down 600MW dirty coal plant from a Chinese SOE and is now moving it piece by piece to Cambodia

Read Lili's China Dialogue articles here:
1. Coal plant deemed too polluting for China heads to Cambodia

2. In Cambodia, solar power surges

Lili's Recommendations:
1. The Belt and Road Podcast - Courtney Weatherby and Mark Grimsditch episodes
2. China's Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence - How China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance
3. Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss and Hope in China by Karoline Kan

Erik's Recommendations:
1. The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ
2. The film "Marriage Story"