Ecological cooperation a key part of Belt and Road Initiative

26/05/2021 CEN_net 0

China has made ecological cooperation a key part of #BeltandRoad Initiative #BRI, with a number of green action initiatives “covering wide-ranging efforts in green infrastructure, green energy, green transport, green finance”: former Bangladeshi minister xhtxs.cn/eb7 DHAKA, April 27 (Xinhua) — China has made ecological cooperation a key part of the Belt and Road Initiative, Dilip Barua, former Bangladeshi Minister of Industries, said here Sunday. “In the face of unprecedented challenges in global governance, the […]

China Environment News

25/05/2021 CEN_net 0

Our new web site is on the way … CEN has created an independent web site and is in the process of developing and commissioning it over the next few weeks. We intend to continue the CEN Facebook group as well. This is necessary given the excessive political censorship and extensive banning of pro-China individuals and groups by the US Facebook oligarchy and other US based social media and internet […]

Tiananmen Protests Reading List from Qiao Collective

25/05/2021 CEN_net 0

As the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests approaches, we can expect the usual Western campaign of exaggeration and outright lies to build to a crescendo yet again. The Qiao Collective has curated a short reading list that provides an alternative perspective on the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Qiao Collective has written a short reflection on the protests that is not meant to provide […]

Tiananmen Protests Reading List from Qiao Collective

25/05/2021 CEN_net 0

As the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests approaches, we can expect the usual Western campaign of exaggeration and outright lies to build to a crescendo yet again. The Qiao Collective has curated a short reading list that provides an alternative perspective on the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Qiao Collective has written a short reflection on the protests that is not meant to provide […]

News in brief

25/05/2021 CEN_net 0

China develops new “breakthrough” wheat variety China Science reports China has developed a breakthrough wheat variety, named Yangmai 33, with high resistance to scab and powdery mildew for the first time. The new variety is expected to become a new generation of dominant varieties in China and help solve the world’s food problems. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2516109708443374/permalink/4047601818627481/

China to extract uranium from seawater

25/05/2021 CEN_net 0

China Seawater Uranium Extraction Technology Innovation Alliance Council launched. China plans to have a fully operational facility capable of extracting uranium from the ocean in about a decade’s time, according to the country’s nuclear authorities. The technical details of how China plans to build the extraction plant have not been disclosed but researchers around the world have made significant progress in bringing the idea closer to reality. The official timeline […]

Capitalism and Robbery

25/05/2021 CEN_net 0

The Expropriation of Land, Labor, and Corporeal Life From Monthly Review – https://monthlyreview.org/category/2019/volume-71-issue-07-december/ “The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil constitutes the basis of the capitalist mode of production. ” — “Karl Marx 1 “The power of abstraction,” Karl Marx noted, is absolutely crucial to the theoretical analysis of historical systems, as exemplified by his critique of capitalist political economy.2 But while the force of abstraction is […]

Measuring CO2 production unfair for developing nations

25/05/2021 CEN_net 0

Measuring CO2 emissions solely against production unfair for developing countries. WASHINGTON, April 24, 2021 (Xinhua) Calculating CO2 emissions solely on the basis of production “disproportionately” penalizes developing countries which quite naturally have a higher carbon content in their economic structures, a renowned U.S. expert has said. “What I am hoping for rather is consumption-based accounting of emissions also being brought to the fore as a means to calculate emissions reduction […]

Germany’s ‘climate club’ proposal

25/05/2021 CEN_net 0

On May 22, German Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz proposed the formation of an EU “climate club” that offsets trade frictions and synthesizes climate protection strategies with Washington, Tokyo and Beijing. “It is a wise thing not just to discuss about how the European Union can do this and how we could avoid to have difficulties in the competition on the global market afterwards,” remarked Scholz after talks with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio […]

Yuan Longping father of hybrid rice

25/05/2021 CEN_net 0

China on Monday morning held a memorial service to bid farewell to Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice,” who passed away on Saturday. Despite being a busy workday, thousands of people dressed in black showed up and laid flowers at the site in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. The top rice scientist, who developed the first hybrid rice strain that relieved countless people of hunger, […]