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Don`t worry there is no significant man- made global warming. The global warming scare is not driven by science but driven by politics. Al Gore and the UN are dead wrong on climate fears. The IPCC process is a perversion of science.
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China struggles to keep the lights on amid sky-high demand
China’s roaring industrial rebound from the pandemic has an unforeseen consequence — the surge in power demand has left factories, office buildings and street lights in some areas straining under an electricity shortage. The country’s local governments are cutting power… Read More ›
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China’s green NGO climate propaganda enablers
Shortly before the Soviet Union collapsed, Greenpeace opened an office in Moscow. It enjoyed the patronage of a leading member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and enjoyed Kremlin funding, laundered through a state-owned record company. The green activist group… Read More ›
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US blacklists Chinese companies including SMIC
The United States has imposed export controls on dozens of Chinese companies, including the country’s biggest chipmaker SMIC, restricting its access to US technology over its alleged ties to China’s military. The announcement on Friday, in the final weeks of… Read More ›
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Hong Kong suspends flights from United Kingdom
Hong Kong is suspending all flights carrying travelers from the United Kingdom after a mutated coronavirus was identified in London. From Tuesday, people who have stayed in the UK for more than two hours will not be allowed to board… Read More ›
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Claim: China’s Covid-19 recovery is not green enough
In September, the Chinese province of Hubei – where the first outbreak of Covid-19 occurred – announced 90 billion yuan (about US$14 billion) of investment in the coal, electricity, oil and gas sectors over the next three years. Provincial bosses described… Read More ›
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Chinese embargo of high quality Australian coal is increasing CO2 emissions
China and Australia’s trade dispute over coal threatens to escalate into a wider spat over climate change and net-zero emissions targets. The Morrison government will use China’s indefinite ban on Australian coal to accuse Beijing of skirting its climate change commitments, as… Read More ›
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China suffering mass blackouts following Australian coal embargo
Millions of Chinese residents have been left without heating in the middle of winter as cities ration electricity amid a blockade on Australian coal. Australia provided 57 per cent of China‘s thermal coal imports in 2019, which is used to generate electricity… Read More ›
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Foreign investors in China face security review
Foreign investors in Chinese industries from defense to tech will from next year face an extra layer of scrutiny to ensure their activities do not undermine national security, the country’s top economic planner said Saturday. Under the new rules, overseas… Read More ›
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Reds and Greens: China’s useful idiots sing the praises of the world’s largest polluter
Environmental NGOs like Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council, being dupes or worse, sing the praises of the world’s largest polluter. Two decades ago, most economists — including me — believed that as a country became… Read More ›
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China to expand its fleet of coal power plants by 10%
The future of coal looks like an ice cream truck parked half a kilometer down a mine shaft in China’s Shanxi province. The yellow and white vehicle is equipped with a 5G router from Huawei Technologies Co. to gather data… Read More ›
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China has more than 100 journalists behind bars amid ‘total control’ of media
China was among the world’s biggest jailers of journalists in 2020, continuing a pattern of total state control over the media begun under ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “core” leader Xi Jinping. “China, which arrested several journalists for their coverage… Read More ›
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Hong Kong’s leader sees further fall in public support and confidence
Public support for Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam and her top officials has fallen further in recent weeks, with pollsters citing the freezing of the bank accounts of a former opposition lawmaker and his family as a key factor…. Read More ›
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China’s domestic tourism to hit $1.5 trillion
China’s domestic tourism market is expected to receive 10 billion visitors per year on average, with the annual revenue reaching 10 trillion yuan (US$1.5 trillion) in the next five years, according to a report from the China Tourism Academy on… Read More ›
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Invasion killer: Taiwan’s new subs a formidable force
On paper, as they say, China has a distinct advantage when it comes to naval power. Over the past decade, it has aggressively built up its navy to over 300 warships and submarines, making it the largest navy in the… Read More ›
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Trump’s spy chief says China working on ‘super soldiers’
In the 1987 movie Robocop, Peter Weller portrays a police officer who is nearly killed by criminals, and whose brain and body are used by scientists to create a cyborg policeman, equipped with super strength. Of course, it all goes… Read More ›
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China’s embargo on Australian coal causes inferior grade Mongolian imports to surge
Green revolution anyone? Despite China’s aggressive geopolitical games, queues are forming at Australian coal export ports as other countries awaken from their Covid-19 economic slumber. Beijing’s ban on Australian coal has resulted in increasing imports from Mongolia, meaning the country… Read More ›
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China has the v-shaped recovery of which Trump can only dream
This month, China released its third-quarter economic indicators, including a GDP growth rate of 4.9 percent. The figures confirmed that the country is on track for an economic recovery after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the whole… Read More ›
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Behind China’s threat to support insurgency in India
China does not normally object when other countries trade with Taiwan as long as it is done on a private level. But when news reports began circulating about the possibility of an official Indian-Taiwan trade pact, China hit back via… Read More ›
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Following in China’s lead, Dubai builds new coal plant despite 2050 climate promises
The 2,400MW Hassyan clean coal power station is an ultra-supercritical (USC) power plant being build by China in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It’s also building the peninsula’s first nuclear power plant and endlessly promotes its vast solar-power plant named after… Read More ›
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China slowing the yuan’s rise? Very doubtful
There was much ado on Bloomberg and other financial news services when the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) announced last Saturday that financial institutions no longer need to set aside cash for risk reserves when purchasing foreign exchange for clients… Read More ›
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Volkswagen to put $17.5 billion into China’s electric cars
German car giant Volkswagen on Monday announced a fresh 15 billion euro (US$17.5 billion) splurge on China’s vast electric vehicle potential. Global carmakers are pegging hopes on an increasingly electric future with China at the forefront as a customer base… Read More ›
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Chinese troops to take part in Russia’s Kavkaz-2020
China continues to sharpen the point of the spear. Elite troops attached to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Western Theater Command will participate in the Kavkaz-2020 strategic military exercise later this month in Russia, joining military units from Russia… Read More ›
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Getting serious about serious power generation: China leads global nuclear power push
Any student of economics wondering how important reliable and affordable electricity is to economic growth and industrialisation, need only look at China. The CCP may not be the flavour of the month at the moment, but its role in China’s… Read More ›
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India, China trade blame over border tensions
India and China traded blame for rising tensions over their disputed Himalayan border on Saturday following their highest level meeting since a deadly clash in June. India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe released rival… Read More ›
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China’s new early warning aircraft makes maiden flight
As China builds aircraft carriers, it was expected to develop a carrier-based airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system — and that appears to be happening with the recent progress of the KJ-600. Unverified photos posted on social media show… Read More ›
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Why the Czech Republic is baiting China
“An act of international treachery” was how China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi described Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil’s official visit to Taiwan this week. Amid a broad downturn of Beijing’s relations with Europe, the trip is certain to impact more… Read More ›
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Chinese migrants who survived Mao’s Great Leap Forward can help us learn sustainability
According to the Australian Government’s ABC television and radio network, Chinese migrants who survived a brutal famine caused by Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward can teach us how to survive in the coming age of sustainability. Planting seeds of change… Read More ›
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China builds missile site at sacred lake revered by hundreds of millions in India
The Chinese regime has set up a surface-to-air missile site on the banks of a sacred lake, according to Indian media, which claims the installation is a desecration of a religious site revered by hundreds of millions in India. China… Read More ›
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Mekong countries must confront China over dam impact, experts say ahead of China-led meeting
China’s extensive damming of the upper Mekong River has reduced water flows, threatening downstream countries Cambodia and Vietnam with environmental harm and food shortages, said experts in advance of a summit meeting of the multilateral Mekong-Lancang Cooperation group. The summit,… Read More ›
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China is the biggest winner of the U.S. renewables boom
Since the days of President Jimmy Carter and the 1970s oil crisis, the U.S. has relentlessly pursued the utopia of becoming energy independent. But with persistent oil crises and severe oil price shocks, it has become glaringly obvious that Washington… Read More ›
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US president’s ultimate challenge: stable relations with China
How to handle China and how to maintain America’s position ahead of its economic rival in the global pecking order is a major issue in the 2020 US presidential election. Both candidates – the incumbent Republican Donald Trump and the… Read More ›
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China’s geostrategic priorities become clear: oil not wind
China’s offshore wind installations for 2019 and its plans for the end of the decade are catching headlines. Less well reported, in the United Kingdom at least, is the vastly more significant evidence that China is acting firmly to reduce… Read More ›
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US picks a fight with China in South China Sea
In a clear and well-orchestrated escalation, the US State Department has effectively rejected nearly all of China’s claims and activities in the South China Sea, a law-based provocation that threatens to spike tensions in the already hotly contested maritime area…. Read More ›
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China’s coronavirus recovery drives boom in coal plants, casting doubt over commitments to cut fossil fuels
Far from treating the coronavirus pandemic as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to speed up decarbonisation and lock in climate goals, there are signs China is falling back on its old playbook of pumping cheap credit into fossil-fuel heavy energy projects to… Read More ›
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Risks to Chinese commercial banks manageable
China’s small and medium-sized banks are stable and the risks they face are manageable, according to the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC). With sound fundamentals of capital, provision and profit, city commercial banks have the capability to fend… Read More ›
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China raises flood alert to second highest level
China raised its flood response alert on Sunday to the second highest level as heavy rain battered regions along the Yangtze River, with the eastern provinces of Jiangsu and Jiangxi among the worst hit, state media reported. Flooding in the… Read More ›
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China reverts to its dirty coal ways
Coal-fired power plants that belch pollution and contribute to global warming were supposed to be phased out in a more environmentally sensitive China. In recent years, Chinese officials have spun and won applause for new clean environment narratives at various… Read More ›
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DHL temporarily suspends Chinese import shipments to India
German logistics company DHL said on Wednesday it had temporarily suspended picking up import shipments from China to India, after border tensions between the countries led to clearance delays. Another prominent freight transporter FedEx Corp has also suspended shipments, according… Read More ›
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Vietnam could face blowback from legal row with China
If Hanoi files an official complaint in its South China Sea dispute with Beijing, it could lose more than it win. Pundits are predicting that Vietnam will soon file a complaint under the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea… Read More ›
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Hong Kong leader says opponents of security law are ‘enemy of the people’
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday urged opponents of Beijing’s plan to impose national security legislation in the financial hub to stop “smearing” the effort, saying those who did were “the enemy of the people.” Beijing last month announced… Read More ›
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Taiwan Black Lives Matter protest gets indigenous twist
Hundreds packed into a park in central Taipei on Saturday for a Black Lives Matter protest, with a group of indigenous Taiwanese given prominent billing to draw attention to discrimination against the island’s original inhabitants. The rally, attended by more… Read More ›
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US military ban locks two Chinese universities out of popular software
Two Chinese universities with close ties to the military have been banned from using a US-developed computer software platform amid tensions between China and the United States over technology. The US Department of Commerce added the Harbin Institute of Technology… Read More ›
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Understanding and navigating Hong Kong’s security law
US Secretary of State Pompeo says new security law will be a ‘death knell’ for Hong Kong’s autonomy.” “China warns UK of economic damage unless it backs down.” “National security law for Hong Kong to boost ‘one country, two systems’… Read More ›
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How to avoid a China-led world order
As the COVID-19 crisis has unfolded, it has opened our eyes to China’s rapidly expanding role in the international order and global economy. Beijing’s outsize role in the World Health Organization has come under attack, as has the muscular diplomacy used by… Read More ›
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China faces an unemployment time bomb
Strip away the veneer of President Xi Jinping’s “China Dream” policy and you will find 600 million people earning just 1,000 yuan a month. Depending on the conversion rate, that works out at US$140, or $4.6 a day. It was… Read More ›
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China ‘needs to win over Europe’ after loss of trust and impact of US rivalry
When Washington imposed tariffs on Chinese imports to set off the US-China trade war in 2018, Beijing warned Europe not to “stab China in the back”, yet the continent has since criticised China on issues including trade, the coronavirus and… Read More ›
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A return to normal in China means air pollution is back in force
The welcome return of China’s economy is bringing with it some unwelcome company, as air pollution levels have returned to pre-lockdown levels across the country. Major pollutants have exceeded concentration levels from a year ago for the first time since… Read More ›
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China approves restrictive national security laws for Hong Kong
China on Thursday approved a controversial national security law that would allow Beijing to wield expanded power over Hong Kong. The vote by the National People’s Congress was close to unanimous: 2,878 delegates voted in favor of the proposal while… Read More ›
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US, China sliding towards a lose-lose military conflict
Is the world sleepwalking into a new war, be it hot or cold? And is the virus the oil to lubricate and fuel the clash that is centered on China and the US, but impacts the world? Are countries playing… Read More ›
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Why ‘Made in Vietnam’ won’t replace ‘Made in China’
Now that Vietnam appears to have won its health war against Covid-19 after recording zero deaths and winning international praise for its crisis management, speculation is rising the nation could also be an economic winner of the pandemic. According to… Read More ›
