Articles by CEN_com

US bioweapons threat: Russia & China concern

February 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

Russia and China have pledged to collaborate in confronting dangers posed by the Pentagon’s “biological activities”. The Russian and Chinese governments have held an inter-agency meeting in Beijing to share their assessments of biological security concerns, and address the threats posed by bioweapons – particularly those allegedly being developed by the US military. Moscow and Beijing agreed to work together in seeking to strengthen the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention […]

Venezuela & China partnership

December 2, 2023 CEN_com 0

In September 2023, Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro was on a state visit to the People’s Republic of China. He met with China’s President Xi Jinping, and both agreed to strengthen the relationship of their countries to the level of ‘all-weather strategic partnership’. This was the culmination of a relationship that began with president Hugo Chavez’s first visit to Beijing in 1999, the very first year of his presidency. Venezuela joined […]

China & US to cooperate on climate

November 20, 2023 CEN_com 0

China, U.S. release statement on enhancing cooperation to address the climate crisis. BEIJING, Nov. 15, 2023 (Xinhua) — China Special Envoy for Climate Change Xie Zhenhua and U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry met in Beijing from July 16 to 19 and at Sunnylands, California from Nov. 4 to 7, and released “The Sunnylands Statement on Enhancing Cooperation to Address the Climate Crisis.” Please see the attachment for […]

Climate loss-&-damage fund clash

November 11, 2023 CEN_com 0

A major clash between developing nations and the West evident in lead up to COP28 at end of November. Last year’s UN Climate Change summit (COP27) in Egypt marked a victory for developing nations when they secured agreement to establish a new fund to support the victims of climate disasters – an idea many developing countries had been advancing for decades. A transitional committee (composed of members from developed and developing countries) […]

BRICS Health & Pharmaceutical Association

July 10, 2023 CEN_com 0

BRICS Health and Pharmaceutical Association of Africa has been launched in South Africa to help the African continent improve its health systems and be prepared for future pandemics. The initiative seeks to tap into research and development and advanced technology from BRICS countries and use it in Africa to address the burden of diseases, according to Hilton Klein, chairperson and CEO of the Numolux Group, which launched the association last […]

BRICS Bank & de-dollarization

June 10, 2023 CEN_com 0

New Development Bank: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe new members The BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is expanding, and building a new economic architecture to challenge the dominance of the U.S. dollar. One of the most important institutions created by the BRICS is the New Development Bank (NDB). This is a Global South-oriented alternative to the World Bank, which is located in and essentially controlled by the […]

China: Extreme heat & climate change

June 6, 2023 CEN_com 0

In August last year (2022) CEN reported on heat wave conditions hitting China. Similar conditions since hit India and South East Asia. Researchers at Tsinghua University and the Beijing Institute of Economics and Management said that this was no longer unusual, and stressed that “the world needs to adopt stronger climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, such as reducing the use of fossil fuels and increasing urban green spaces.” Heat-related […]

Can BRICS prevail over IMF & World Bank?

June 2, 2023 CEN_com 0

BRICS and the rise of Global South Who would have expected that the BRICS nations could rise as potential rivals of the G7 countries, World Bank and IMF combined? But what once seemed a distant possibility now has real prospects, which could change the political equilibrium of world politics. BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It was supposedly coined by the Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs in 2001 […]

Imperialism & Ecological Marxism

May 22, 2023 CEN_com 0

Critique of 21st century imperialism and the growth of ecological Marxism: a view from China The following was written by two Chinese Marxist academics, Professor Cheng Enfu and Dr Fu Hao, which reviews the positive role by the US magazine Monthly Review (established 1949) in contributing to Marxist political analysis in the 21st Century. A key element of this contribution has been the critique of imperialism and the development theories […]

Russia & Iran rail infrastructure plan

May 20, 2023 CEN_com 0

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi have signed an agreement for the construction of a rail line between the Iranian cities of Rasht and Astara. Russia is a full member of BRICS and the SCO, and has been among the top beneficiaries of Chinese development spending under the BRI. Official lending commitments from China to Russia from 2000 to 2017 — which incorporates BRI spending — […]