Geopolitics & Multipolarity~
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NATO expansion: truths and lies about US pledges made to Russia in 1991
Understanding the historical conditions and present strategic context that have led to the stand-off between Russia and the US regime (and its NATO proxy) over Ukraine is crucial to the broader picture of the development of the multipolar world. Central to this is to be able to distortions of historical reality peddled by the US Continue reading
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New Zealand defies wrath of Anglosphere to sign major new trade deal with China
New Zealand – China Free Trade Agreement updated and ratified China and New Zealand have ratified an upgrade of their long-standing trade deal. The FTA was first signed with New Zealand in 2008 and it was the first such agreement between China and a Western country. Negotiations to upgrade it started in 2016. On 15 February 2022, Continue reading
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Understanding China’s latest guidelines for greening the Belt and Road
The latest guidelines are another important milestone towards greening China’s overseas projects and investments. They are – to our knowledge – the most comprehensive document by any country regulator to guide environmental management of overseas projects by either public or private companies. This January, less than six months after publishing the “Green development guidelines for overseas investment Continue reading
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Along the Belt and Road: Breaking the Cycle of Underdevelopment in Latin America
By Carlos Martinez – Feb 10, 2022 The last few months have seen a significant expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although this region of the world is not the most obvious fit for an undertaking that was originally modelled on the Silk Road – a network of Continue reading
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$117.5 billion China-Russia energy deal dumps US Dollar for the Euro
On 6 Feb 2022 China Environment reported about China and Russia announcing significant strengthening of cooperation between the two nations in the energy sector, with major long term oil and gas deals between the two nations being signed. The Chinese President said that China and Russia should strengthen joint innovations in major energy technologies, as a way Continue reading
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Forget ‘BRI debt trap’ – US controlled World Bank / IMF is the REAL debt trap
Forget the fake Western claims about China’s Belt & Road Initiative: the US controlled World Bank and International Monetary Fund have been bankrupting and enslaving developing nations with crippling debt, “austerity” and financial colonialism for 70 years. While supposedly an “international organisation”, all appointments to the Board of the World Bank World must be approved Continue reading
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The end of US neo-liberalism – the meaning of Biden’s change in US economic policy
In the US President Biden is carrying out a revolution in economic policy which, without openly acknowledging it, in fact admits the failure of US the neo-liberal economic policies pursued during the last 40 years. Entirely abandoning the neo-liberal goal of “small government” Biden has unleashed the greatest increase in peacetime government spending in US Continue reading
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China’s response to climate change encourages others
Climate change is a real challenge facing all nations alike now. The temperature is rising in cities and various adverse effects including untimely rainfall, heatwaves, droughts, storms, floods, wildfires, and crop failures are being observed across the world. It is really distressing that during the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Continue reading
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China questions US biowarfare labs
China questions purpose of US bio-warfare labs in 30 overseas countries Published 2022/03/09 According to data published by the U.S., America has 26 bio-labs in Ukraine, which are under absolute control of the U.S. Department of Defense. The United States should receive multilateral check for its biological militarization activities and make a relevant clarification, a Continue reading
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Xi Jinping and Valdimir Putin meeting – world order enters a new era
The authoritative Chinese newpaper, The Global Times, on Feb 05, 2022, commented on the significance of the meeting in Beijing between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin. The Global Times noted that after their meeting, the two world leaders “issued a lengthy joint statement that elaborated on shared views and Continue reading
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China leads world investment in low-carbon energy transition
More than 130 countries have set or are considering a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Achieving net-zero on a global scale, however, requires $125 trillion in climate investment by 2050, according to research commissioned by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). While that level of investment hasn’t been achieved yet, it’s ramping up. Continue reading
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China and Russia sign new deals on energy cooperation
China and Russia announced a significant strengthening of cooperation in energy sector, with major oil and gas corporations from two nations signing new deals this week. While China is massively expanding its renewable energy capacity to meet its 2030 and 2060 climate goals, natural gas is likely to remain a significant energy transition fuel for China. Continue reading
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‘Russia and China: A Future-Oriented Strategic Partnership’ – Putin’s article in Xinhua
Political commentary A signed article by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin titled “Russia and China: A Future-Oriented Strategic Partnership” was published by Xinhua News Agency on Thursday, 3 Feb 2022. Source: Xinhua, 2022-02-03. http://www.ecns.cn/news/2022-02-03/detail-ihavfwhh0345776.shtml The following is the full text of the article. Russia and China: A Future-Oriented Strategic Partnership Vladimir PutinPresident of Continue reading
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China’s Shandong using hydrogen fuel to achieve carbon neutrality
China is implementing a pilot plan to transform Shandong, a regional industrial power house in eastern China, into a “hydrogen society” that holds out much hope of delivering on the green promise of the fuel of the future, with its abundance and zero tailpipe emissions. In April 2021 an agreement was signed for “sweeping hydrogen Continue reading
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China produces three and a half times more solar capacity than the US
The world is adopting renewable energy at an unprecedented pace, and solar power is the energy source leading the way. Despite a 4.5% fall in global energy demand in 2020, renewable energy technologies showed promising progress. While the growth in renewables was strong across the board, solar power led from the front with 127 gigawatts installed in Continue reading
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Fact-checking Western media reports on Beijing Winter Olympics
With Beijing 2022 approaching, the Western media oligarchies are spreading rumors, speculation and false claims about the green nature of the games, and health and safety. The claims are just more of the politically motivated American racist rubbish typical of the US media oligarchs. Xinhua takes a closer look at the facts reveals that there Continue reading
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Malaysia battles to save its national animal from extinction
“If drastic action is not taken, the Malayan tiger will be extinct within the next five to 10 years” Malaysian government minister, Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, statement to Malaysian parliament, November, 2021 This article is about the plight of the Malayan tiger, the national animal of Malaysia. We have shared it here, in part, as Continue reading
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China-Russia drive energy megaprojects
Gas as a ‘transition’ fuel for coal phase out China is shifting from coal to natural gas as part of its drive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Lin Boqiang, dean of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University recently said that gas was seen as an effective “bridge fuel” between Continue reading
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COVID-19 may have reached Europe as early as 2019: Norwegian study
[See CGTN: http://www.ecns.cn/…/2022…/detail-ihavfwhh0343767.shtml] New findings by Norwegian researchers show that the novel coronavirus could have arrived in Europe a month earlier than previously thought. This adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting the coronavirus was spreading globally before the first cases in a Wuhan market captured global attention in December 2019. An investigation led the Continue reading
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China releases white paper on space program
BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) — China issued a white paper on the country’s space program on Friday. The white paper was published by the State Council Information Office of China. Titled “China’s Space Program: A 2021 Perspective,” the white paper introduces China’s purposes, principles, policies and measures, and cooperative mindset in its space exploration. It Continue reading
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Global South Economic Alliance: China launches challenge to US hegemony
China is leading an international effort to develop alliances to counter U.S. hegemony. A new grouping of nations has been formed to promote China’s Global Development Initiative (GDI), and will complement China’s massive international infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative. In March 2021, 17 nations—many led by anti-imperialist and progressive governments, including Cuba, Venezuela, Continue reading
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China overtakes UK as world’s largest offshore wind power provider
China built three times as much offshore wind-farm capacity as the rest of the world put together during 2021 – and figures show wide disparities between European nations’ rates of wind farm construction Updated information from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that during 2021, China provided more than three-quarters of the world’s added capacity in Continue reading
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Can the US seriously blame China for climate change?
At UN COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, the U.S. attempted to displace blame onto China for climate change, which was caused disproportionately by the advanced capitalist powers. While the U.S. media often calls China the biggest carbon emitter, this tends to leave out both per-capita emissions and the fact that these same countries have outsourced Continue reading
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Far East transnational park for endangered tigers and leopards
China and Russia collaborate on huge Far East transnational park for endangered tigers and leopards Wild leopards and tigers are roaming in the far eastern wilderness again thanks to an historic China–Russia collaboration for a transnational park covering more than 1.7 million hectares. The China-Russia border region, where China’s Heilongjiang and Jilin provices, border Russia and Continue reading
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China and Russia collaborate on huge Far East transnational park for endangered tigers and leopards
Wild leopards and tigers are roaming in the far eastern wilderness again thanks to an historic China–Russia collaboration for a transnational park covering more than 1.7 million hectares. The China-Russia border region, where China’s Heilongjiang and Jilin provices, border Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is home to the largest wild Siberian tiger and Continue reading
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China installs world’s largest offshore converter: massive 3.1 GW of offshore wind capacity added to the grid
An offshore converter station, developed by China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG), was installed at CTG’s Rudong wind farm in east China’s Jiangsu Province. The 15-story-tall converter station is said to be the world’s biggest, and first of its kind in Asia. The installation of the world’s largest offshore converter station was hailed by China Classification Society Continue reading
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What is the real story behind US 5G ?
America’s 5G band is part of US the military weapons and communication system. It seems that this will enable the US regime to control the “civilian” 5G system, access non-military communications data, and provide the ability to turn off 5G nation-wide at any time. In August 2020 the US government announced it would redeploy spectrum Continue reading
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China offers to help rebuild Tonga after volcanic eruption
Introduction Tonga became a member of the Belt and Road initiative in November 2018. Tonga’s relationship with China dates back over a decade to the aftermath of the deadly 2006 riots in the capital of Tonga, Nuku’alofa, which destroyed much of the small Pacific nation’s central business and government districts. The Tonga Government rebuilt the city, Continue reading
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China outlines marine-protection tasks for 2021-2025
Shared by China-Environment-News.com on Facebook China has unveiled a plan to specify key tasks for protecting the marine environment in the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), according to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) on Monday. The plan, jointly issued by the MEE and five other departments, outlines five areas for marine-environment protection. During Continue reading
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China’s Antarctic Program and the Antarctic Treaty System
On 4 January 2022 China’s CGTN media network posted a short video announcing that a team of Chinese scientists has arrived at the Zhongshan Station and the Great Wall Station to conduct the 38th expedition in Antarctica to carry out scientific research. The link to the CGTN video is: https://youtu.be/YESKwlAEOJA In this post we provide Continue reading
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China-Iran to implement comprehensive cooperation plan for energy and infrastructure
China and Iran announced the launch of the implementation of a 25-year comprehensive cooperation plan following talks on 14 Jan 2022, between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian in Wuxi, east China’s Jiangsu Province. Cooperation between the two nations will cover areas such as energy, infrastructure, production capacity, Continue reading
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Syria joins the Belt and Road Initiative
Syria on 11 July 2022 joined the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which will help the Middle Eastern nation create new opportunities for cooperation with China and other countries, to help rebuild amid wars, Western sanctions, and the Covid pandemic. Syria’s admission ceremony took place during the signing of a memorandum of understanding at Continue reading
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Nicaragua along the Belt and Road
This excellent article, republished from China’s Global Times locates the recent inauguration of Daniel Ortega for a further term as President of Nicaragua, and the increasingly close ties between China and the Central American nation, within the overall context of a resurgence of the left throughout Latin America. This is occurring in the teeth of intense US Continue reading
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China No 1 publisher of net-zero emission studies
CHINA SURGES FORWARD IN RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH China has a clear lead in the publication of research over the past two decades related to the world’s climate goal of reaching net-zero emissions, a recent report has found. Its performance is also noteworthy in terms of patents that serve the goal. The conclusion was reached based Continue reading
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