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Australian experts weigh in on Belt and Road Initiative’s role
Source: China Daily, 2022-07-07. Daryl Guppy, President of the Australia China Business Council’s Northern Territory sub-council said that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major contributor to economic growth in areas that have been ignored by other development programs. Mr Guppy said he believes the BRI has four dimensions of benefit to boost… Continue reading
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Chinese-constructed mega railway in Malaysia 30% completed
Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) is a key venture of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with Malaysia. The project is primarily funded by a loan from China’s state-owned Export-Import (EXIM) Bank. Given Malaysia’s close economic relationship with China, which is its largest trade partner, the country has appeared as a BRI focal point. The… Continue reading
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Egypt’s first electrified light rail system starts trial runs
Egypt’s first electrified light rail transit (LRT) system jointly built by Chinese and Egyptian companies started its trial run on July 3, 2022. The LRT project is the fruit of a $1.24 billion contract signed in August 2017 between Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels and the consortium of China Railway Engineering Corporation and AVIC International… Continue reading
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Laos-Vietnam Railway Project considered
A Laos–Vietnam Railway Project (LVRP) is being considered, which would link the railways of the two socialist nations with rail system of socialist China. The LVRO would extend Laos’s recently completed railway to Kunming, China some 330km to the border trading city of Thakhek, and then a further 140km to the Vietnamese port of Vung… Continue reading
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China proposes 6 programs with Mekong-basin countries
China on Monday 4 July 2022 proposed six programs which will benefit the Lancang-Mekong countries aside from China, namely Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, including cooperation plans in agriculture, water resources, digital economy, aerospace, education, and public health, as Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi chaired the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting… Continue reading
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Professor Jeffrey Sachs on COVID-19: I’m pretty convinced it came out of US lab biotechnology
World-renowned economist and author Professor Jeffrey Sachs has said that he was “pretty convinced” Covid-19 did not come from nature but rather was an accidental release “out of US lab biotechnology.” Professor Sach’s view lends further support for the need for an independent international invesigation into US bio labs run by the US military in… Continue reading
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China’s Belt & Road Initiative, the BRICS New Development Bank, and the failure of the G7 to deliver
𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗭𝗮𝗸𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Two of the BRICS member states were invited to the G7 summit as guests. What does in mean for our interests? Does it mean that the West is beginning to acknowledge BRICS, or was it done to counteract the famous Chinese strategy, Belt and Road?… Continue reading
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China at the centre of the world’s politics
The following is reproduced from Think China, 29 Jun 2022. The views expressed are those of the author. Former Singaporean journalist Goh Choon Kang observes that whether it is the discussions at the recently concluded Shangri-La Dialogue or the larger machinations of geopolitics, it cannot be denied that having China in the picture changes many… Continue reading
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South-South cooperation: China helps 38 developing countries vulnerable to climate change to face challenges of green transition
China takes concrete action to tackle global warming through cooperation. The past two months have seen China taking a series of concrete actions to enhance South-South climate cooperation, namely projects among developing nations. Small island states, which are particularly vulnerable to global warming, are among China’s major concerns. China has reached 43 agreements with 38… Continue reading
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Chinese energy giant PetroChina considers selling its Western holdings
PetroChina may withdraw from Australian and Canadian projects, according to reports in Reuters. PetroChina may sell its stakes in natural gas projects in Australia and oil sands in Canada, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing its sources. The Chinese company reportedly wants to cut its losses and divert funds to sites in the Middle East, Africa,… Continue reading
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BRICS to expand green energy, digital cooperation in bid to boost sustainable development
Closer ties among developing nations help tackle global issues: expert BRICS countries will strengthen cooperation in a wide range of fields, including the digital economy, energy and the green economy, according to the BRICS Summit Beijing Declaration released on 23 June 2022, which reaffirmed the commitment to tackling climate change and fostering sustainable growth. In… Continue reading
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Inner Mongolia: China’s first 1000 MW grade onshore wind power project starts operating
A giant onshore wind power project with a generation capacity of one million kilowatts (1000 MW) was put into operation after being connected to the national power grid for electric power supply in the Xing’an League of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Wednesday 29 June 2022. Built by the China General Nuclear Power… Continue reading
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China completes construction of Zimbabwe’s new parliament building
Source: Xinhua, 2022-06-30. Gretinah Machingura, Tafara Mugwara Zimbabwe’s new parliament building, constructed and fully funded by China as a gift to the southern African country, is now complete and ready for occupation. It took 42 months to complete the project, instead of the original 32-month timeframe due to COVID-19 disruptions. Construction began in November… Continue reading
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The West sabotages Bonn climate talks – Global South betrayed yet again on ‘historical responsibility’
Let us not forget that global climate change is a problem largely created by the West through its carbon-intensivbe industrialisation over the past two centuries. At a time when the collective West is channeling hundreds of billions of dollars into Europe to prolong a futile war, it has once again done everything it can to… Continue reading
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Looking back: history of wind power generation in the Soviet Union
Introduction: A 2017 study by the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) showed that Russia has an enormous wind power potential. A further analysis of the study data in March 2021 provided an in-depth and detailed analysis of the current Russian wind sector and its strengths and weaknesses. The WWEA said: “After the Paris agreement has… Continue reading
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China draws on markets for $10 billion to strengthen its clean tech supremacy
Three Chinese electric vehicle battery and material companies are tapping investors for more than $10bn in new funding as the country cements its dominance over global clean tech supply chains. The combined fundraising by the three Chinese groups — CATL, Tianqi Lithium and Huayou Cobalt — eclipsed the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent… Continue reading
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Argentina and Iran to join BRICS
Iran and Argentina seek to join the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa economic bloc known as BRICS. In 2022 the GDP Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) of the 5 existing members of BRICS is greater than that of the G7 bloc. Argentina has applied to join BRICS. President Alberto Fernandez on Friday urged the creation of cooperation mechanisms that… Continue reading
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Cuban International Renewable Energy Fair
Cuba’s energy minister says the country’s long-term goal is to generate 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. The second International Renewable Energy Fair, was held on June 22 to 24 at the Pabexpo fairgrounds in the Cuban capital, Havana, and featured the participation of important institutions and foreign companies from 29 countries. The… Continue reading
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China’s wind and solar potential nine times that needed for carbon neutrality
In September 2020, China pledged to peak its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2030 and achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2060. In a new study, published in Carbon Neutrality, Drs Qingchen Chao and Wang Yang at the National Climate Center of the China Meteorological Administration explore whether China has sufficient wind and solar potential, given that decarbonising its energy system will… Continue reading
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Is the West finally realizing that Russia will win the war in Ukraine?
Source: Monthly Review Online, June 23, 2022. https://mronline.org/2022/06/23/is-the-west-finally-realizing-that-russia-will-win-the-war-in-ukraine/ This article is one in a series of articles written by Mark Rolofson covering the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. While this civil war in Ukraine actually began 8 years ago in 2014, the Western media narrative has portrayed this conflict as an unprovoked invasion by… Continue reading
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Chinese e-vehicle battery enables 1,000-km journey on single charge
China’s leading automotive lithium-ion battery maker, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL), revealed on Thursday a new battery that provides electric vehicles with a driving range of over 1,000 km on a single charge. With the third generation of cell-to-pack (CTP) technology, the battery named Qilin, or CTP 3.0 battery, has a volume utilization efficiency… Continue reading
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The United States – the Pacific bully
By Brian Toohey, June 24, 2022. Pearls and Irritations: https://johnmenadue.com/the-united-states-the-pacific-bully/ The US conducted 105 nuclear tests in the Pacific, mainly in the Marshall islands, between 1946 and 1962. Image: Wikipedia The US dominates the Pacific Islands to an extent China can never hope to achieve. With Australia’s support, the US is now engaged in an arms… Continue reading
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EU states returning to coal, using West’s own sanctions on Russia as excuse
European Union countries were this time last year among those who were attacking China for using coal for energy despite the fact that China leads the world in the use of renewable energy. Now these same critics are backsliding on their much vaunted shift from coal. The Netherlands has joined Germany and Austria in reverting… Continue reading
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Indonesia and China have a rapidly growing ties
China’s growing role in Indonesia’s economy is now becoming a crucial source of growth for the two nations. China has emerged as the third largest source of investment in Indonsesia, just behind Singapore and Hong Kong SAR. The combined Hong Kong and Chinese mainland investments accounted for 25 % of the total overesas invbestment in… Continue reading
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US and Europe are victims of their own sanctions on Russia and China
From Break Through News. Rania Khalek talks with China based Arnuad Bertrand on the nature of the sanctions blowback. Continue reading
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World facing climate catastrophes – China hit by floods
Levels of rainfall not seen since the early 1960s. Authorities across much of southern China have issued weather advisories for heavy rain and severe flooding. Over 80 rivers have already seen waters exceed warning levels after days of heavy rains. Over 1.79 million people in central China’s Hunan Province have been affected by heavy rain and more… Continue reading
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Ancient Forest Discovered in Remote China Sinkhole
Chinese scientists from the Institute of Karst Geology of the China Geological Survey have uncovered a “lost world” at the bottom of a massive sinkhole in China. The cave exploration team discovered a giant karst sinkhole in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, bringing the number of such sinkholes in the county to 30. The… Continue reading
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Ancient forest discovered in remote China sinkhole
Published 2022/06/18 Watch 2 beautiful videos below. Chinese scientists from the Institute of Karst Geology of the China Geological Survey have uncovered a “lost world” at the bottom of a massive sinkhole in China. The cave exploration team discovered a giant karst sinkhole in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, bringing the number of such… Continue reading
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China breezes to the lead of offshore wind power race
China accounted for 80% of all new global offshore wind capacity in 2021. New offshore wind power capacity tripled worldwide in 2021, according to industry data, driven by China in a buildup that is transforming the industry. Last year, 21.1 gigawatts of offshore wind generation was commissioned last year, according to the Global Wind Energy… Continue reading
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US anxiety to push decoupling with China in mineral supply chains ‘a dangerous signal’
Source: Global Times, Jun 16, 2022. Washington is using NATO to prepare for an all-out conflict with its strategic competitors, which could spark World War III, said analysts, as the US is pushing decoupling or reducing reliance on China in fields like critical mineral rseources. Since NATO will adopt a new Strategic Concept for the… Continue reading
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China leads in offshore wind power
Published 2022/06/16 China accounted for 80% of all new global offshore wind capacity in 2021. New offshore wind power capacity tripled worldwide in 2021, according to industry data, driven by China in a buildup that is transforming the industry. Last year, 21.1 gigawatts of offshore wind generation was commissioned last year, according to the Global… Continue reading
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Advanced nations must make biggest emission cuts
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… Continue reading
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Quantifying national responsibility for excess global CO2 emissions: US worst offender
Published 2022/06/14 A key study published in September 2020 by the highly respected medical journal The Lancet provides a key to understanding the response to reducing global carbon emissions in terms of environmental justice. The article details a method for quantifying national responsibility for damages related to climate change by looking at national contributions to cumulative CO2 emissions in… Continue reading
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Chinese debt traps in Africa? No, most African debt owed to Western bondholders: says new research
A joint study by Columbia University (in US) and Oxford University (in UK) refutes claims of Chinese “debt-trap diplomacy” in Africa, and highlights that debt owed to European bondholders is a bigger contributor to debt. In fact: Chinese entities account for only 8% (US$78 billion) of sub-Saharan Africa’s government debt (US$954 billion) and 18% of… Continue reading
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