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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…