Image: Shanghai inundation at 4C sea level rise ASIA MOST AFFECTED According to a report released in Hong Kong on May 21, 2024 by China Water Risk (CWR) instead of providing energy security, global oil supply chains are increasingly threatened by rising sea levels. The report warns that the entire oil…
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Google oligarchy ranks filled with CIA agents: ‘national security’ search engine
“The United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.“ Google…
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Angola’s energy future: China-built hydropower
Cover photo: China is currently building Angola’s largest dam on the Kwanza River. Angola has a huge demand for electricity due to growing urbanization, especially in the capital city of Luanda with approximately five to six million inhabitants. Angola has an electrification rate of about 30%, which the government wants…
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Vietnam seeks China’s expertise in power sector transformation
Proposal for joint Vietnam-China cooperation on a range of projects focusing on the development of integrated energy centres, high-voltage power transmission lines, and the production of new green fuels in Việtnam. Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Trần Hồng Hà has commended China’s advancements in energy modernisation, particularly its renewable energy development…
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Large Russian solar power plant for Mali
BRICS-member Russia’s energy giant Rosatom is building solar power plant in Africa. The Mali government has announced that Russia’s state-owned Rosatom has begun construction of a large solar power plant in the country. This should be seen in the wider context of Mali’s militant rejection of the Western military presence…
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Xi-Putin on Environment, BRI and BRICS
Joint statement between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation on deepening their comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era. At the invitation of President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation conducted a state visit to the…
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Climate funding strings for poor nations
Climate funding: wealthy countries attach strings for developing world. Japan, France, Germany, the United States and other wealthy nations are reaping billions of dollars in financial gains as part of developed nations’ pledge to provide $100 billion a year to poorer countries to help them reduce emissions and cope with…
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China’s EV battery swaps speed charging
China is home to almost half the world’s electric vehicles, 85% of the world’s fast chargers and 65% of slow chargers, and leads the world in EV infrastructure. Now it’s innovating on battery swap stations: roll up, swap out the battery, and drive off. Rarely seen globally, they are already…
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China’s Massive Shift From Dollar Assets
US ATTEMPTS TO RESTRICT CHINESE GREEN TECHNOLOGY China dumps record $53.3 billion of US treasury and agency bonds in the first quarter of 2024. The news of the largest ever Chinese sell-off of US dollar assets emerged following three recent key events: Over time China has significantly reduced its stake…
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US tariff duplicity on China green tech
Economic blockade of Chinese green technology reveals shallow US commitment to fight climate change. Will more anti-China tariffs slow US shift away from fossil fuels ? Is talking to the two-faced Washington regime ‘a waste of oxygen’ ? Only 5 days after seemingly cordial US-China climate talks, US Biden regime…