China is in many crosshairs and Taiwan won’t have water trouble tomorrow. A long drought was going to put limits on TSMC’s chip maker in Taiwan. But, some heavy rain over the weekend and into Monday saved the day. While… Read More ›
Month: May 2021
Insatiable: Coal-Fired Power Continues its Dominance in Energy Hungry China
The anti-energy/anti-civilisation squad keep predicting the end of coal and coal-fired power. But in China and India the demand for the black stuff – and the cheap and reliable power it delivers – is insatiable, and rising. Notwithstanding a global… Read More ›
EU Trans-Atlantic relations should not exclude Latin America
On the historic date of March 08th – International Women’s Day, a large number of international affairs specialists gathered for the second consecutive summit in Vienna, Austria. This leg of the Vienna Process titled: “Europe – Future – Neighbourhood at… Read More ›
China in the News: May 31, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Think again about China | TheHill – Now, every Chinese militarized rock in the South China Sea is a strategic defeat, and every Chinese bad loan to Africa… Read More ›
Can China finally solve its military jet engine problems? A new material might just do the trick.
China says it has made significant progress in improving its military jet engines – a long-standing problem that has hampered its military modernisation programme. State media reported that it has developed a new coating material for turbines that helps “fill… Read More ›
If the US went to war with China, who would win?
A great deal has been written about the possibility of a war between the U.S. and China. It tends to be measured in theoretical terms, and much of the analysis centers on exactly when it might occur. But the vital… Read More ›
China in the News: May 30, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) U.S. Mask Companies Struggle to Compete with China – Like other start-ups, the company got into the mask business after China, the world’s largest producer of protective medical… Read More ›
Taiwan is a country – and a free one, unlike China
It happens way too often, and it is exactly how China tries to desensitize the world to falsehoods. Wrestler-turned-actor John Cena became the latest victim of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bullying when he issued a somewhat groveling apology — in… Read More ›
The idea of ‘green growth’ is flawed
As countries explore ways of decarbonizing their economies, the mantra of “green growth” risks trapping us in a spiral of failures. Green growth is an oxymoron. Growth requires more material extraction, which in turn requires more energy. The fundamental problem… Read More ›
China in the News: May 29, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China still behind on Phase One, but catching up quickly – Phase One laid out that over the course of 2020 and 2021, total exports of U.S. agricultural… Read More ›
Biden’s Asia czar says era of engagement with China is over
The U.S. is entering a period of intense competition with China as the government running the world’s second-biggest economy becomes ever more tightly controlled by President Xi Jinping, the White House’s top official for Asia said. “The period that was… Read More ›
China in the News: May 28, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) ‘Very cagey’: Growing concern over China’s ‘true intent’ https://au.news.yahoo.com › very-cagey-growing-con… 14 hours ago — “The change of China’s rhetoric towards Australia that happened over the past 12… Read More ›
Taiwan says ‘China’s intervention’ blocked vaccine deal with BioNTech
Taiwan has directly accused China for the first time of blocking a deal with Pfizer-BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccines, in an escalating war of words after Beijing offered the German-made mRNA shots to the island via a Chinese company. Taiwan has… Read More ›
China in the News: May 27, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Australia tensions: US military plans to stockpile … https://www.9news.com.au › National 20 hours ago — Australia should brace for a strong response by China after reports the Federal… Read More ›
China and the Philippines’ tense stand-off over Scarborough Shoal leaves fishermen in fear
Federico Josol remembers the first time he saw a Chinese helicopter buzz menacingly above his fishing boat. It was 2013 and he was fishing at Panatag – or Scarborough Shoal – a triangular-shaped coral reef about 120 nautical miles from… Read More ›
China in the News: May 26, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Taiwan rebuffs China’s offer to send COVID vaccines amid … https://www.abc.net.au › news › china-offers-vaccines-… 19 hours ago — China offers to urgently send vaccines but the proposal… Read More ›
G7 moves to isolate China and emerging nations on coal
The G7 is throwing down a challenge to China and other middle and emerging economies: Follow our lead and stamp down hard and fast on coal power. Environment and climate ministers from the club of the richest democracies on Friday… Read More ›
China in the News: May 25, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Iron ore price: Why China’s flex to hurt Australia could backfirehttps://www.news.com.au › finance › economy19 hours ago — China’s efforts over the past week to cool down the… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, May 24, 2021
A democratic Pacific alliance is on the rise. Many nations in the Far East may host US troops, but a bond is forming between them that runs deeper than any US influence. At the center: Taiwan; across the battlefield: China,… Read More ›
This world has no rules-based order
“ … attacks against the rules-based order are intensifying … Let me be clear — the United States is not seeking to uphold this rules-based order to keep other nations down. The international order we helped build and defend has… Read More ›
China in the News: May 24, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China issues brutal warning to Australia after joining Japan in …https://7news.com.au › travel › china-issues-brutal-war…18 hours ago — Song Zhongping, cited as a Chinese military expert, told the… Read More ›
How China fuels Southeast Asian coal boom
While many markets, including the United States, Europe, and East Asia, shift away from coal, Chinese banks, energy and construction companies remain committed to financing and building dozens of plants in Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. That’s despite growing concerns… Read More ›
China in the News: May 23, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China lashes out at Australia for joining Japan, France, US …https://www.news.com.au › technology › innovation3 hours ago — “This so-called joint drill has no impact at all on… Read More ›
The Promise of India
For over a decade India and China have been touted as the next superpowers. The notion of India as a “rising global power” received broader acknowledgment when then-President Barack Obama, on a visit to India in 2010, said that “India… Read More ›
China in the News: May 22, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Iron ore price: China’s empty threat to harm Australia – 20 hours ago — Despite everything that’s transpired between Australia and China in the past year, Beijing has… Read More ›
China says US warship illegally entered its territory in South China Sea
China has branded the United States an “out-and-out security risk creator” in the South China Sea, after a US warship sailed through waters near disputed Islands. In a statement, the Chinese military’s Southern Theater Command said the USS Curtis Wilbur, a guided-missile destroyer, entered… Read More ›
China in the News: May 21, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China to step up domestic iron ore mining in fresh swipe at Australia Beijing’s top economic planning agency has put Australia on notice, throwing the spotlight on trade… Read More ›
Vladimir Putin says Russia-China ties at ‘highest level in history’ during launch of nuclear projects
Moscow-Beijing relations have reached their “highest level in history”, Russian President Vladimir Putin says. Mr Putin made the statement in a video conference with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during which the leaders launched the construction of Russian-designed reactors at China’s Tianwan and… Read More ›
China in the News: May 20, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Morrison government accused of not responding to China: Labor Australia’s needs an urgent plan to deal with a more assertive China, opposition treasury spokesman Jim Chalmers warns.NEWS.com.au15 hours… Read More ›
Tiangong: China may gain a monopoly on space stations
China launched Tianhe-1, the first and main module of a permanent orbiting space station called Tiangong (Heavenly Palace 天 宫), on April 29. Two additional science modules (Wentian and Mengtian) will follow in 2022 in a series of missions that… Read More ›
China in the News: May 19, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) Never been bigger: PM says Australia is weathering China trade fight Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia would prefer a better relationship with China but that Beijing’s trade… Read More ›
China’s ‘game plan’ has Pacific islands in its sights
For evidence of China’s game plan for influencing the Pacific islands, look to the South China Sea and what the rising Asian power has been doing in spades, said US Congressman Ed Case. Beijing’s goal is to “assert sovereignty over the South China Sea and influence a free… Read More ›
China in the News: May 18, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China’s not winning its trade war with Australia China hasn’t been able to hurt the Australian producers of the two big commodities that really matter. If this is… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, May 17, 2021
Asia produced two shining lamps on two hills this week. One is Ming Yang, CFO of the Daqo solar manufacturer in Xinjiang. The other is Taiwan. Yang, who has a Taiwanese heritage, leads a company in China that is completely… Read More ›
China in the News: May 17, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) China’s not winning its trade war with Australia China hasn’t been able to hurt the Australian producers of the two big commodities that really matter. If this is… Read More ›
China takes comfort from census population rise
Key findings from China’s latest population census have painted a better demographic picture than the decline many feared, officials say. Five months after the completion of the nationwide headcount, held once in a decade, statisticians made public key population data… Read More ›
China in the News: May 16, 2021
Daily news headlines about China from around the world (past 24 hours) How can Australia achieve economic growth when the Treasurer can’t name China in his budget speech? Whether we name it or don’t, China looms over the world and… Read More ›
China uses Uyghur forced labour to make solar panels, says report
The global production of solar panels is using forced labour from China’s Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, an investigation has found. Xinjiang produces about 45% of the world’s supply of the key component, polysilicon, the research by the UK’s Sheffield… Read More ›
China in the News: May 15, 2021
China reports successful spacecraft landing on Mars, with a rover deployed The official Xinhua News Agency says a lander touched down and deployed a rover, citing the China National Space Administration.ABC News3 hours ago China lands on Mars in latest… Read More ›
Visit to Wufang Village near Shanghai gives clues about China’s rural revitalization
Recently I paid a visit to Wufang Village, a tiny village in suburban Shanghai that has gained some fame as a weekend getaway with its beautiful peach orchards, renovated houses, and an influx of young people working and living there…. Read More ›
China in the News: May 14, 2021
US Secretary of State says Australia won’t face China’s ‘economic coercion’ alone Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States will not leave Australia alone in the face of economic coercion from China, and that such behaviour …ABC News1… Read More ›
China on brink of laser-matter breakthrough
Nuclear weapons have already shown that it is possible to convert matter into large amounts of heat and light, but doing it the other way around, converting heat and light into matter, is much more difficult — but this is… Read More ›
China in the News: May 13, 2021
China used social media to spread misinformation to discredit western media during pandemic, report finds At the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s global media influence was in full swing, using social media to discredit western media outlets and spread… Read More ›
China suggests Greta Thunberg is an ignorant political puppet
In response to Greta attacking China’s colossal CO2 emissions, China has responded by suggesting Greta is “short of sufficient academic knowledge study, and lack of sound self-judgment capability”. The Greta tweet which upset China; China’s response; Thunberg may lack enough… Read More ›
China in the News: May 12, 2021
China releases once-in-a-decade census data showing falling population growth New census data released on Tuesday reveals China’s population growth has fallen to its slowest pace since the 1960s, posing a challenge to policymakers in …ABC News20 hours ago China’s population… Read More ›
China’s global greenhouse gas emissions top US, all developed countries combined
China’s 2019 greenhouse gas emissions surpassed the emissions of the United States and the entire developed world combined, a report from the research and consulting firm Rhodium Group revealed Thursday. The communist nation’s emissions also more than tripled over the… Read More ›
China in the News: May 11, 2021
China defends handling of rocket debris, accuses America of double standards China says it closely tracked the trajectory of its Long March 5B rocket booster and points to Western media using “romantic rhetoric” about recent SpaceX debris …ABC News13 hours… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, May 10, 2021
China’s rocket disintegrated as it returned to the atmosphere. It was almost metaphoric. Many objected to China’s plan to let this rocket make re-entry where it did, and China didn’t care. It worked out, but didn’t help China listen to… Read More ›
China in the News: May 10, 2021
China-backed Confucius Institutes face closure under veto laws The University of Sydney is among at least four universities to have registered their Confucius Institute contracts under the Commonwealth’s new foreign veto …Sydney Morning Herald3 hours ago China rocket debris lands… Read More ›
The 7 Ancient Wonders of China
China had some of the world’s greatest ancient empires and civilizations. They had the skills and manpower to accomplish some amazing feats of architecture, engineering, and art. These seven are arguably the most outstanding… 1. The Army That United China:… Read More ›
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