| Type: | Non-governmental organization |
| Founded Date: | July 3, 2006 |
| Location: | London |
| Key People: | Isabel Hilton, Founder, Sam Geall, CEO |
| Area Served: | People's Republic of China |
| Focus: | Environmentalism |
| Homepage: | chinadialogue.net |
China Dialogue (Chinese: 中外对话) is an independent, non-profit organisation based in London and Beijing. It was launched on July 3, 2006. China Dialogue is funded by a range of institutional supporters, including several major charitable foundations.
It focuses on the environment, especially in China, although it has an interest in environment and sustainability issues around the world.
It features articles by Chinese and non-Chinese authors from a variety of perspectives. These include an interview with former US vice-president Al Gore[1] and Chinese economist Hu Angang. Other contributors include Pan Yue who was named New Statesman Person of the Year 2007, and Ma Jun a leading Chinese environmentalist named by Time magazine as one of its 100 most important people in 2006.
China Dialogue also operates The Third Pole, which reports on the Himalayan watershed, Diálogo Chino, on the Chinese relationship with Latin America, and China Dialogue Ocean.[2]
The executive board is chaired by Joan MacNaughton.[3]
In August 2024, Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin publicly claimed that Dialogue Earth offered him N800,000 to write an article critical of the Dangote Refinery in Nigeria. According to Hundeyin, the brief was aimed at framing the refinery as detrimental to the environment, with the ultimate goal of influencing the Nigerian government to limit or shut down its operations under the guise of environmental concerns and climate change policies.[4]
Hundeyin accused Dialogue Earth of being influenced by foreign interests that seek to maintain Africa's dependency on foreign refined petroleum products by undermining local industrial initiatives like the Dangote Refinery. He suggested that the NGO was acting in concert with American intelligence fronts, such as the Ford Foundation and ClimateWorks.[4]