China Environment News

All too often news in the Western media on China’s environmental efforts is clouded by anti-China distortion, if not outright hysteria and racism. However, it is now evident to most of the world that in the global battle for ecological rationality and equity, China has increasingly emerged as the international leader for Green development and what the Chinese call ecological civilization.

China is now a key driving force in moving the planet towards ecological civilization and in redressing the effects of centuries of plunder and exploitation of the Global South by the West. A key element of this is the Belt and Road Initiative.

The global environmental crisis is a material reality, and is not something that can be reversed simply by adopting a few reforms aimed at the “environmental modernisation” of international capitalism nor by a “Green New Deal” which appeals to and entrenches the privileges of the West.

Global ecological crisis is the product of centuries of largely unrestrained Western industrialization and colonial exploitation of the natural resources, land and labour of the Global South by imperialism and this continued under its neo-liberal incarnations and its current extreme neonationalist war-mongering.

Seriously tackling the global ecological crisis must involve a global redistribution of power and wealth. We unequivocally acknowledge this will require nationally-appropriate forms of socialist state power.

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