China ships a million bottles of melting Tibetan glacier water to climate-threatened Maldives China has sent more than a million bottles of water from melting Tibetan glaciers to the Maldives, officials said Thursday, a gift from the world’s highest mountains to a low-lying archipelago threatened by rising seas. The Indian Ocean nation of 1,192 tiny coral islands is on the frontlines of the climate crisis, with salt levels seeping into […]
China and ASEAN forge sustainable development pathways through collaborative action: ASEAN and China Dialogue on Bio-Circular-Green Economy and Climate Action for the Region China and ASEAN, as close neighbors and important partners, possess extensive opportunities for collaboration in multiple sectors, for example, the green economy and climate action, which also helps to promote the sustainable development of the regional economy, experts said. Green development has always been a crucial area […]
This article is reprinted from the Shanghai-based The China Academy. As the countries of the Global North have faced prolonged declining economic growth, countries of the Global South, especially in Asia, have displayed a higher economic growth trajectory over the past thirty years. As can be seen in Figure 39, at the end of the Cold War in 1993, the Global North accounted for 57.2% of the global GDP (PPP), […]
Sino-Russian research lab established for Siberian tiger conservation A Sino-Russian joint research lab on Siberian tiger conservation was established at Northeast Forestry University in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province on Thursday, 14 March 2024. The lab, with more than 20 experts from both sides, is co-developed by China’s Feline Research Center of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Institute of Ecology and Evolution A.N. Severtsov of the Russian Academy […]
The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project is designed to improve connectivity between Peninsular Malaysia’s East Coast and the West Coast states. The ECRL is a key part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Malaysia, and is part funded by China’s state-owned Export-Import (EXIM) Bank. Malaysia has a close economic relationship with China, which is its largest trade partner, and has appeared as a BRI focal point. Malaysia […]
China needs to speed up climate change legislation, says NPC deputy A national legislator has called for legislation tackling climate change to be accelerated to help achieve the country’s ambitious climate targets. The legislation and the establishment of a legal system for reducing carbon emissions are an urgent necessity for the country to achieve its climate targets, said Zhang Tianren, a deputy to the National People’s Congress. China aims to […]
China Produces Nearly Half of World’s Top AI Researchers Who Increasingly Choose to Stay Home In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), China has emerged as a dominant force, with its AI talent pool expanding significantly in recent years. According to the latest findings from the Global AI Talent Tracker 2.0, China has seen a remarkable rise in the number of top-tier AI researchers, solidifying its position as […]
How China’s Industrial Policy is accelerating its Green Tech economy’s growth This video from Channel News Asia (7 min) looks at what drives China’s highly successful industrial policy in the green technology sector. “Sichuan houses the largest clean energy industrial cluster – and it’s a result of industrial policy. Local government officials carefully select the companies to complement the industrial chain, creating an ‘assembly line’ where an upstream company’s products […]
US regime’s war on Chinese electric cars has begun The Biden administration has announced that it’s launching a probe into Chinese “smart cars,” vowing to protect the American automobile industry. As is conventional, the White House branded the cars a “national security threat” and claimed, baselessly, that they can transmit data back to China. Of course, any seasoned and good-faith observer should know that the rhetoric of “national security threats” is always used as a justifying premise, […]
The Marshall Islands is still seeking justice for US Nuclear Test Seven decades after Castle Bravo, the most devastating US nuclear test in the Pacific, the US still refuses to give the Marshall Islanders fair compensation On March 1, 1954, a blinding flash of light in the west made it seem as though the sun was rising from the wrong side of the ocean. The sky and the sea turned […]
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