Geopolitics & Multipolarity~
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Eighty seven percent of overseas coal power financed by G7 and other advanced economies
A recent Boston University study published in July 2021 found that Japanese, Korean and Western financiers bankroll 87 % of overseas coal power plants globally, contrary to the misconception that most new funding comes from public financing entities in China. In fact, before China banned any new funding of overseas coal projects, China accounted for only 13 Continue reading
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China’s West-East Gas Pipeline: Journey to the East
Kelvin Kwok shared a link to China Environment News on Facebook. “China should shut all the coal power plants”, say many. Well yes, that is a very valid statement, if we ignore any underlying hostility/racism or comically sincere expectations from ivory towers. Focusing on the reality in China, you will know coal is indeed used a Continue reading
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Omicron spread shows China got it right on Covid-19 strategy, top disease expert says
Wuhan lockdown was landmark decisive move that drastically contained the spread of the coronavirus in China, Zhong Nanshan says Expert credits rapid testing and universal vaccination coverage, along with stringent controls with country’s success Foreign nations should realise by now that China’s so-called over the top approach in handling the pandemic was the correct one, the Continue reading
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Turnover of China’s carbon market tops 5.8 billion yuan
Xinhua, 23 Dec 2021 – shared by China-Environment-News.com on Facebook Background from CEN: China’s national emissions trading system (ETS) was launched in July 2021. As the largest carbon market in the world, China’s system is more than ten times larger than that of the US state of California. The Chinese scheme has more than doubled the Continue reading
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US climate commitments in chaos – is Biden’s “Build Back Better” policy dead?
At the Glasgow climate meeting in November 2021, US President Biden was keen to promote the US “commitment” to the Paris Agreement (which the US regime had only recently “rejoined”) aimed at preventing some of the worst effects of global warming. Much was made at the time by the Biden regime and its acolytes of Continue reading
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The changing energy mix in our time – replacing fossil fuels with solar
China has the largest solar production capacity in the world. How did Chinese companies achieve this No.1 position and what are the changes solar power is bringing to our lives? In the attached Green Front Video, Kate Kui interviewes Li Zhenguo, founder of the largest solar company globally, Longi Green Energy, which is based in Continue reading
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China-built Moscow metro stations open to traffic: “landmark for Sino-Russian friendship”
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday via video link launched a new section of the Moscow Metro, part of which was built by China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC). CRCC constructed a 5.4-km line, which consists of three stations and nine tunnels, as part of the 70-km Third Interchange Circuit of the Moscow Metro. It Continue reading
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The United States is stealing Australia’s trade with China
Shared from The Pen Research at the University of Technology in Sydney has found that over the last 18 months, Australian trade with China is being stolen, and mostly by the United States. The research shows that Australia’s portion of trade fell by $17.3 billion in the first nine months lading to 2020, U.S. exports Continue reading
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Why advanced countries must proportionately make the biggest cuts in carbon emissions
Shared from: Learning from China, Published by John Ross, Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. The article was written in the context of the COP26 UN climate change conference in November 2021. Ross argues that the factual situation is entirely clear. It is the advanced economies which overwhelmingly have above average Continue reading
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Why advanced countries must proportionately make the biggest cuts in carbon emissions – a factual briefing
Shared from: Learning from China, Published by John Ross, Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. The article was written in the context of the COP26 UN climate change conference in November 2021. Ross argues that the factual situation is entirely clear. It is the advanced economies which overwhelmingly have above average Continue reading
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China vows closer ties with Pacific Island countries on environment
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday that China is willing to work with Pacific Island countries for a closer comprehensive strategic partnership. Wang made the remarks while chairing the first China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting via video link. Wang said the relations between China and Pacific Island countries have set a good Continue reading
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Biden sabotages global adoption of solar power
What’s really behind the Biden regime’s sabotageing global adoption of Chinese solar equipment ? “The reality is that the Biden is doing everything he can to sabotage the adoption of solar power across the globe” Extreme heat in 2021 has broken the famous “Dust Bowl” record from 1936 for the hottest summer on record in Continue reading
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US sanctions aim to cripple global growth in solar power – while climate change turns North America into a “dust bowl”
“the reality is that the Biden is doing everything he can to sabotage the adoption of solar power across the globe” Extreme heat in 2021 has broken the famous Dust Bowl record from 1936 for the hottest summer on record in the USA. In 1936, the world observed a hot blob on a relatively cool Continue reading
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White Man’s Media: vilification of China and ‘colonisation of the mind’
Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the Australian media. That colonial media mind set in turn promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’. By John Menadue, the publisher of Pearls & Irritations. The US Department of Defence maintains, in its own words ‘full spectrum dominance’ throughout the Continue reading
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The New Cold War on China
“It would not be an exaggeration to say that China’s Third Revolution has been greeted by the United States and the other core capitalist powers with a combination of disbelief, shock, and anger. Unaccustomed to thinking historically and dialectically, relying on mere formalistic frames of analysis, and believing in the inevitable triumph of capitalism, the Continue reading
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Is China about to take off the gloves?
Historic turning point as China looks to breakup of the US Empire “China should adopt different policies toward the US and its allies, while at the same time treat members of the Five Eyes alliance and other Western countries differently. Previously, China attached more importance to maintaining China-US relations. In the future, we will devote Continue reading
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Editorial Statement
About China Environment News Global environmental crisis is the product of centuries of Western exploitation of the land, natural resources and labour of the Global South. Seriously tackling the global ecological crisis must involve a global redistribution of power and wealth from the West to the Global South. We unequivocally acknowledge this will require nationally appropriate forms of Continue reading
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