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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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Shanghai bans English exams amid calls for less English teaching
Authorities in Shanghai have canceled primary school English exams in a bid to lighten the burden on children and parents, amid growing calls for English to be de-emphasized in China’s state schools. The Shanghai municipal government education bureau announced last… Read More ›
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Chinese court upholds death penalty for Canadian charged with drug trafficking
A Chinese court has upheld the death sentence of a Canadian citizen who was accused of trafficking more than 200 kilograms of methamphetamine from China to Australia. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who was born in 1982, was one of several Canadians… Read More ›
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China unveils 600 km/h Transrapid train
It’s fast, very fast. In fact, it is the fastest train the world. Capable of speeds up to 600 km/h ( (373 mph), China’s high-speed Maglev electric bullet train could very well close the gap between rail-based trains with a maximum… Read More ›
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Chinese Medalists Wear Mao Pins, Then Edit Them Out of Photo Following Controversy
A Chinese Olympic gold medalist posted a social media photo of her and her partner standing on the podium, but something that had been on their jackets went missing: badges depicting the former Communist leader Mao Zedong. Bao Shanju, 23,… Read More ›
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Taliban tells China what it wants to hear on East Turkestan Islamic Movement
Afghanistan’s Taliban and China are drawing closer together as the militant group drives to seize power through force in the wake of America’s troop withdrawal. Whether the two sides can build a mutually beneficial alliance, however, will come down to… Read More ›
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China looking at expropriating foreign-held tech shares
Those foreigners who hold shares in Chinese tech companies are being warned that all is not well. It is China expert Gordon Chang who explained at Gatestone Institute, where he is a distinguished senior fellow and a member of the… Read More ›
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China Threatens to Nuke Japan in ‘Full Scale’ War if They Intervene in Taiwan
In an ominous new video that was circulated by the Communist Party of China, they vow to use nuclear bombs on Japan “continuously until it’s unconditional surrender” in an all out war if they decide to intervene in China’s planned… Read More ›
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US-China rivalry rooted in lost trust
As early as 2005 John Gersham and Melvin Goodman alerted against the trend of an over-militarized US foreign policy. The warning has been a recurrent theme of American debate, although it gained little traction. The debate recently spilled into mainstream media… Read More ›
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China’s Dragon Man skull offers clues to human evolution
A skull preserved almost perfectly for more than 140,000 years in northeastern China represents a new species of ancient people more closely related to us than even Neanderthals – and could fundamentally alter our understanding of human evolution, scientists announced Friday…. Read More ›
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China’s Wind and Solar ‘Industries’ Doomed as CCP Slashes Subsidies
As China’s love affair with coal and nuclear power flourishes, the CCP has turned on unreliable wind and solar, with a vengeance. Of course, you don’t become an economic and military power overnight relying upon sunshine and breezes for your… Read More ›
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Xi’s centennial speech set the tone for China’s aggressive future
On July 1, the Communist Party of China celebrated its 100th anniversary with great pageantry and propaganda. The magnificent display in Beijing involved a highly choreographed ceremony in Tiananmen Square with large-scale aerial exhibitions (including China’s most advanced J-20 stealth… Read More ›
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How China views India on the party’s 100th anniversary
Amid immense international curiosity, the Communist Party of China (CPC) is celebrating its centennial this week with great pomp, while cementing its position as one of the largest and longest-surviving one-party governments in the world. Through all these decades, the… Read More ›
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China Suffers High Costs from Sanctions on Coal
China is caught between power shortages and the political cost of lifting its ban on coal from Australia as Beijing struggles to contain rising prices after cutting off imports from its leading commodity supplier. Reports differ widely on the origins… Read More ›
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China’s slowing railway investment contributing to signs that economic growth is losing steam, analysts say
Investment in China’s unprofitable rail sector has slowed as Beijing clamps down on excess debt, contributing to signs that growth of the world’s second-largest economy has begun to lose steam, according to analysts. But despite Beijing’s debt concerns, it is… Read More ›
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Claim: China Weaponising UN Protection For Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
China’s ongoing effort to punish Australia for opposing their South China Sea territorial ambitions has now allegedly extended to stacking the UN Heritage Committee. A secret push by China to have Australia’s Great Barrier Reef declared ‘in danger’ could cripple the Far… Read More ›
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China is the real winner of Western climate politics
Most of the Western media so desperately wants the dominant climate narrative – especially the bit where the West is the villain – to be true that they simply do not interrogate the facts. The G7 meeting was a genuine… Read More ›
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China Puts Economy First, Climate Last
China’s top economic planners have put the brakes on attempts by environmental officials to reduce carbon emissions as driving growth takes priority over meeting climate targets for now, according to people familiar with the matter. Officials at China’s main economic… Read More ›
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China suddenly puts brakes on climate action, wind and solar subsidies
It’s almost like China’s climate action was just window dressing. It seems to be unraveling… China’s National Carbon Trading Scheme was supposed to go into full operation later this month, but now it’s been cut back by two-thirds. Instead of… Read More ›
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Beijing power players poised to pull plug on prospects to go ‘all-electric’
Feckless far-left fantasies of trading away the 80% of American fossil-fueled energy independence and prosperity for technologies that are 80% dependent on China rare earth materials makes for a gullible green new deal that only Beijing beneficiaries can love. Included… Read More ›
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Survey: 88% of Japanese, 72% of South Koreans see China as military threat
In a joint opinion poll conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun and the South Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo, 88% of Japanese and 72% of South Korean respondents said the increasing military pressure China is putting on its neighbors is a threat to their countries. Japanese… Read More ›
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China’s coal shortage may lead to more power rationing
More Chinese provinces are considering electricity rationing because of a surge in consumption and tighter coal supplies for power generation. This comes after similar measures were introduced in the southern provinces of Guangdong and Yunnan last month, highlighting the severity of China’s… Read More ›
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China’s hold on Cambodia hard for Biden to break
The narrative surrounding US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman’s visit to Phnom Penh last week was that Washington eyes a possible reset of relations with Cambodia. Even a recent article from Cambodia’s state-owned news agency, which long-ruling Prime Minister… Read More ›
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The CCP in China has managed to alienate almost the entire advanced world
China’s great weakness – or rather the Chinese Communist Party’s – is that no one likes authoritarian rulers, or people that lie, steal, spy and send out start pandemics. As I said over a year ago, the one thing China… Read More ›
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Building back blacker, China drives rise in coal-fired power plants
The number of coal-fired power stations granted approval globally has risen for the first time since 2015 – with China making up two thirds of all plans for the heavily polluting plants. Despite international pledges to drastically cut carbon emissions, 20GW… Read More ›
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Israel-China medical fund to raise $300m for joint drug development ventures
The Guangzhou Sino-Israel Bio-industry Investment Fund (GIBF), which seeks to promote and invest in Chinese and Israeli joint ventures in the biomedical field, said Monday it is raising a second fund for a total of $300 million (2 billion yuan)…. Read More ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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Anti-China alliance coalescing in South China Sea
Major powers are wading deeper into the South China Sea in a series of moves that promise to rile China while answering US calls for like-minded nations to counter jointly Beijing’s rising assertiveness in the crucial and contested maritime area…. Read More ›
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Europe’s crusade to fend off Chinese interference falls short
After trumpeting victory over an agreement reached between Europe and China for a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) only a few months ago, Chinese leaders are probably stunned at the much harsher narrative now coming from European institutions. Beyond the… Read More ›
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40% of UK Solar Panels Manufactured by Firms Linked to Chinese Slave Labour
According to the Guardian, silicon sourced from suspected slave labour in Xinjiang was used to manufacture solar panels in 40% of Britain’s solar farms. Investigation finds up to 40% of UK solar farms were built using panels from leading Chinese… Read More ›
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China is the Fastest growing Nuclear Power in the world
The CCP say that China has to stay with coal, but The West ought pay attention more to the rapid growth of nuclear power. Last September I noted that China was poised to be the largest global nuclear power by… Read More ›
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China doubles down on coal plants abroad despite carbon pledge at home
China will press ahead with its multi-billion-dollar financing of coal plants in developing countries, a top climate official said Tuesday, despite Beijing’s stated aim of slashing carbon emissions. In 2020, China opened three-quarters of the world’s newly funded coal plants,… Read More ›
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Chinese military involved in Wuhan viral research project, finding 1,640 new viruses
The CCP is still not being honest about bioweapons research in China. How stupid does the West have to be? The The Mail on Sunday has documents showing that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was working with the Chinese military… Read More ›
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Blinken warns China on Taiwan encroachment, Russia on Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned China against encroaching on Taiwan, and blamed secrecy by the government in Beijing for helping to hasten the spread of COVID-19. In an interview with NBC News, Blinken voiced concern about tension fomented… Read More ›
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China’s sentencing of high-level Uyghur officials to death stuns critics, who demand evidence
China’s recent sentencing of two high-level Uyghur officials to death has stunned critics who have questioned the legality of the decision given the lack of evidence against them and say the move shows that even Uyghurs loyal to the Communist… Read More ›
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China unlikely to make new climate pledges unless US backs down
Chinese President Xi Jinping called Friday for closer cooperation on combating global change as he held a video meeting with the leaders of Germany and France, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and… Read More ›
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China pledged to cut emissions, then went on a coal spree
China’s National People’s Congress meetings, which ended in March, were shrouded in both a real and figurative haze about how strong its climate ambitions really are and how quickly the country can wean itself from its main source of energy… Read More ›
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China Sanctions Intensify, Escalating Trade Risks
Western trade and investment interests in China are facing new threats as sanctions trigger retaliation, heightening tensions over human rights, national security and territorial control. Since the start of President Joseph R. Biden’s term in office on Jan. 20, there… Read More ›
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Why China is still clinging to coal
The world is still barreling in the wrong direction on coal power plant construction, and China — despite its pledges to scale down fossil fuels to avert climate catastrophe — continues to drive that trend. China built the majority of… Read More ›
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China Allows People to Pay Respects at Grave of Cultural Revolution Leader Jiang Qing
Home | News | China China Allows People to Pay Respects at Grave of Cultural Revolution Leader Jiang Qing The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has allowed public access to the grave of Jiang Qing, former member of the Gang… Read More ›
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China’s Net Zero promise looks elusive as banks keep throwing cash at coal mines and power plants
On an unseasonably warm autumn day last October, the world’s largest coal-fired power plant fired up in the Anhui provincial city of Huaibei in eastern China. Sitting in an economic development zone carved out of verdant paddy fields, phase two… Read More ›
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China threatening free speech in Europe
China’s retaliation against European and British lawmakers who sanctioned the communist regime for its treatment of the Uyghur minority is a test of free speech in Europe, contends Soeren Kern, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute. Beijing contends the… Read More ›
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