Geopolitics & Multipolarity~
-
China leader in clean hydrogen
China is set to become the world’s top importer of clean hydrogen over the next decade until it achieves self-sufficiency around 2050. Its own domestic clean hydrogen market is projected to reach $265 billion annually by 2050. According to a Deloitte report on 8 June 2023, the company’s research “suggests that Asia-Pacific will capture almost Continue reading
-
Mexico to join BRICS amid US tensions
Mexico has expressed interest in joining the five-member BRICS group of emerging economies, amid tensions with its northern neighbor – the United States. Some social media have claimed that Mexico has made the groundbreaking decision to apply to join the BRICS nations, but this has not been officially confirmed. In April 2023 the Mexican Foreign Minister Continue reading
-
BRICS cooperate on sustainable cities
Ministers and senior officials from BRICS member states have pledged enhanced partnerships aimed at promoting sustainable urban development in the face of multiple challenges including pollution and climate emergencies. NAIROBI, June 8, 2023 — Ministers and senior officials from BRICS member states on Tuesday pledged enhanced partnerships aimed at promoting sustainable urban development in the Continue reading
-
PNG: AUKUS preparation for war on China
AUKUS isn militarising Papua New Guinea in preparation for war with China urnalist John Pilger’s 2017 documentary The Coming War With China warned that the US had established a “perfect noose” of 400-odd military bases surrounding China, while former Australian PM Paul Keating recently asserted that the AUKUS deal makes us part of this “containment policy”. Indeed, the AUKUS, local US force posture initiatives and increasing Continue reading
-
Ukraine breaches Russian controlled dam
Ukraine breaches Russian-controlled Nova Kakhovka dam causing major flooding for down stream towns The Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine was breached on Tuesday 6 June 2023, unleashing a flood of water to the downstream area. Predictably, the familiar “false flag” strategy was rolled out without any evidence, by Ukraine’s military Continue reading
-
BRICS Bank & de-dollarization
New Development Bank: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe new members The BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is expanding, and building a new economic architecture to challenge the dominance of the U.S. dollar. One of the most important institutions created by the BRICS is the New Development Bank (NDB). This is a Global Continue reading
-
Ukrainian sabotage – toxic ammonia cloud
Casualties reported among the civilian population “A Ukrainian and reconnaissance group” blew up the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline in Kharkov region on Monday night, the Russian Defense Ministry said on June 7. Casualties among the civilian population have been reported. Ammonia is used for a variety of industrial and agricultural purposes. It is a toxic gas Continue reading
-
Can BRICS prevail over IMF & World Bank?
BRICS and the rise of Global South Who would have expected that the BRICS nations could rise as potential rivals of the G7 countries, World Bank and IMF combined? But what once seemed a distant possibility now has real prospects, which could change the political equilibrium of world politics. BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, Continue reading
-
Zhou Enlai’s Legacy and the BRI
Zhou Enlai’s Legacy in the Belt & Road Initiative Originally posted 15 January 2022 Introduction Zhou Enlai is still remembered with boundless respect and affection by the Chinese people and progressive people around the world. He was China’s first Premier, serving from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 to his death in 1976, as Continue reading
-
Markets in China’s socialism
Western Marxism’s “purity fetish” and its misunderstanding of markets in China’s socialism Carlos Garrido, the author of this article has argued elsewhere that at the core of Western Marxism’s [1] flawed analysis of socialist states lies a “purity fetish” which is grounded in a Parmenidean fixation of the ‘true’ as the one, pure, and unchanging. Continue reading
-
Quantifying national excess CO2 emissions
The following extract is from an important study published 1 September 2020 by the highly respected medical journal, The Lancet. The article provides a key to understanding the response to reducing global carbon emissions in terms of environmental justice. It details a method for quantifying national responsibility for damages related to climate change by looking Continue reading
-
Rich nations must pay climate damages
At the UN climate summit in 2021 – COP26 in Glasgow – a group of largely developing nations representing six out of every seven people in the world called for developed countries to commit to pledging funds for loss and damage. However, this call faced opposition from large Western economies particularly the US and EU – and, ultimately, Continue reading
-
Brazil top place for China investment
Originally Published2022/09/04 Investment by Chinese companies in Brazil more than tripled in 2021, returning to pre-Covid pandemic levels and making the country the main destination for Chinese capital last year. After a lukewarm performance in 2020, operations such as Tencent’s investments in fintechs and startups such as Nubank, QuintoAndar and Cora, as well as billionaire Continue reading
-
Eygpt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar SCO partners
September 14, 2022 Middle East Briefing reports: Egypt and Qatar have been granted Dialogue Partner status of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) following the admission procedure launched in September 2021 at the Dushanbe summit. “On September 14, 2022, in Tashkent, in preparation for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a ceremony of signing memoranda Continue reading
-
Iran plans Tehran to Shanghai railway
September 19, 2022 Middle East Briefing reports: Iran is seeking to launch a direct train route to China within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Director General of Commercialization and Associations Affairs Bureau at the Iran Ministry of Roads and Urban Development Amin Taraffo has stated. Iran joined the SCO as a Continue reading
-
Europe’s self made energy crisis
Mercouris looks at how Europe got to where it is – in a severe “energy crisis”. The sanctions imposed by the collective West on Russia over its intervention in Ukraine, have sparked a severe energy crisis in Europe which has spilled over to the global economy and global environment. The US-NATO moves may well have Continue reading
-
End of Russian gas no help to EU climate
The EU should have been better prepared for its green energy transition, the Russian president says. The EU’s decision to slash natural gas imports while trying to reach climate goals was a mistake, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday during an environmental forum in Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East. “First, they (EU) jumped ahead, and Continue reading
-
China chairs Biodiversity Convention on
China currently holds the rotating Presidency of the Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD). This is the first time China has overseen a major UN intergovernmental negotiation on the environment. The first meeting in the current round of Conference of Parties (COP15) of the CBD was officially opened by China in Continue reading
-
Global South not cause of climate change
‘Time to call a spade a spade ….’ In response to our article posted on another Facebook environmental site commenting on how China leads the world in green energy, a US reader from New York in the USA commented: “It may, but China is still the biggest CO2 emitter by far.” This sort of snide Continue reading
-
Iran joining BRICS ‘will add value’
The 14th BRICS summit took place on 23rd and 24th June 2022 by video conference hosted by China. Iran has applied to become a member of BRICS, and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi was invited by Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the summit. President Raisi gave a speech, elaborating on Iran’s viewpoints on the most Continue reading
-
Washington’s sanctions on Chinese solar panels: US domestic deployment falls by 50% – global prices up by 30-40%
The US publication pv magazine reported on 16 August 2022 that a large quantity of Chinese solar panels had been seized by US customs authorities. The seizure were carried out under US anti-China legislation, the so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act” (UFLPA). The legislation is one of many US government actions designed to wage economic Continue reading
-
Sanctions on Chinese solar – US domestic deployment drops 50%
Washington’s sanctions on Chinese solar panels: US domestic deployment falls by 50% – global prices up by 30-40% The US publication pv magazine reported on 16 August 2022 that a large quantity of Chinese solar panels had been seized by US customs authorities. The seizure were carried out under US anti-China legislation, the so-called “Uyghur Continue reading
-
China vows to honor commitments on climate change – says US must stop finding excuses for its own inaction
China reiterates commitment to international cooperation on climate change and will honor the promises it has made China refutes U.S. claim that the suspension of climate talks “punishing the whole world Washington can’t speak for world US must stop finding excuses for its inaction on climate change China remains committed to international cooperation on climate Continue reading
-
Facebook’s Ukraine “fact-checking” directly funded by Washington regime
Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). In light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, Continue reading
-
Nancy Pelosi — Janus of the West
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus presided over war and peace and was usually depicted as having two faces. The gates of a building in Rome named after him – an open enclosure with gates at each end – were opened in time of war. The following article was first published by Anthony M Leong on Medium, and Continue reading
-
Latin America welcomes BRI cooperation, not ideological confrontation
The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has made steady progress in Latin America during the past three years, which has brought concrete benefits to partner economies with its people centered approach. The growing influence of BRI in Latin America, while the US-led counterweight initiative Growth in the Americas achieved little, showed cooperation and inclusiveness Continue reading
-
Our Editorial Perspective
Ecological civilization “Global environmental crisis is the product of centuries of Western exploitation of the land, natural resources and labour of the Global South, including the colonized Indigenous Peoples. Seriously tackling the global ecological crisis must involve a global redistribution of power and wealth from the collective West to the Global South. We make no apologies in unequivocally Continue reading
-
Belt and Road – Going Green
China has responded to calls for a more sustainable BRI. As the developing world strives to meet the Paris Agreement target to limit global warming to below 2 degrees C, there is growing pressure on China to play its part in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. This pressure will only grow as China emerges more decisively Continue reading
-
BRI: China to build 1000 schools, 2 solar power plants in war-torn Iraq
Iraq has become the third-biggest Belt and Road Initiative partner in energy engagement, after Russia and Pakistan. Fudan University’s Center for Green Finance and Development in Shanghai reported that in 2021, Iraq received $10.5 billion in investment under the Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. China–Iraq relations have advanced in recent years, but China-Iraq energy cooperation Continue reading
-
China helps put digital television on the air in Timor-Leste
A demonstration project of China-aided terrestrial digital TV transmission system in East Timor (referred to as the “Demonstration Project”), was launched in February 2021. The project is a joint construction under the Belt and Road Initiative between China and Timor-Leste. China and Timor-Leste agreed in 2019 to introduce digital television to Timor-Leste. With the assistance Continue reading
-
The new BRICS alliance: mortal threat to West
A new global reserve currency will undermine US dollar supremacy. China Environment Net comments: The author of the following article correctly describes the changes that are taking place in the global economy as “the biggest that have been seen since 1945. Yet there is very little discussion of it in the Western press or in Continue reading
-
US pushes dangerously close to war against China
Late in the evening of 28 July 2022, Chinese President Xi Jinping held a frank phone conversation with US President Joe Biden, during which he once again warned the US about the seriousness and significance of the Taiwan question. The public opinion of the 1.4 billion Chinese people cannot be defied. Those who play with Continue reading
-
USA: world’s largest producer of oil AND its largest oil consumer
The Largest Oil Producers in 2021 According to an analysis by Elements Newsletter based on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022, roughly 43% of the world’s oil production came from just three countries in 2021 — the US, Saudi Arabia, and the Russian Federation. Together, these three countries produced more oil than the rest of Continue reading
-
Cuba and China discuss trade relations and Maritime Silk Road
Chinese commercial representatives based in Cuba met with the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba (CCC) on 20 July, 2022 in Havana to discuss BRI trade and investment opportunities in the Greater Antilles. ** During the meeting, updated information was provided on Cuba’s participation in the Maritime Silk Road Initiative of the 21st Continue reading
-
More countries knocking on BRICS’ door: a sign the world needs fairer governance than West-dominated one
The following article is based on an interview with Zhu Tianxiang, director of the Center for BRICS Political and Security Studies at the Institute of BRICS Studies of Sichuan International Studies University. It was first published in the Chinese newspaper the Global Times on July 16, 2022. BRICS, a grouping of major emerging economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China and Continue reading
China Environment News 