...Drawing on her recently released study (Inside China, Inc.), Erika Downs will discuss how [China Development Bank's] energy-backed loans demonstrate the increasingly central role the bank is playing in China’s “going out” strategy, which is facilitating the international expansion of Chinese firms to secure energy and natural resources, build national champions, and acquire advanced technologies...Adina Matisoff will give an assessment of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation’s environmental and social policies and practices across its global portfolio. She also will discuss environmental and social trends of Chinese mining investments overseas...Derek Scissors who has built the most extensive web database on Chinese investments overseas...will dig into...issues related to Chinese metal mining investments in Australia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, and other countries...