BRI, BRICS, & Global South~

China to maintain climate change strategy

August 31, 2022 CEN_com 0

The English-language website of China News Service reports: – China’s special envoy for climate change, Xie Zhenhua, speaking at an official forum on 30 August in Beijing, that China will maintain its climate change strategy and continue to promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. Xie Zhenhua was formerly Vice Chairman of China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). China has always been and will continue to be a key participator, contributor […]

China Policies & Actions on Climate

August 25, 2022 CEN_com 0

In November 2019 the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China published a report titled China’s Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change. The stated aim of the report was to help “interested people fully understand China’s policies and actions, and their performance and effects in addressing climate change.” That report remains a key statement of China’s approach to dealing with climate change. Below, we reproduce […]

Thailand & Malaysia: ASEAN rail network

August 23, 2022 CEN_com 0

VIENTIANE — Thailand’s Transport Ministry is working with its Malaysian partner to develop a high-speed rail (HSR) network that will connect four member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China, according to a media report. The talks follow on from the outstanding success of China-Laos HSR link began operating the Laos-China Railway in December 3, 2021. According to the media report, the Thai and Malaysian sides […]

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BRI and Indonesia’s Global Maritime Fulcrum: 60% trade growth

August 21, 2022 CEN_com 0

Editor’s Note (GT): While the global situation has been under the shadow of the pandemic and the geopolitical conflicts, current bilateral relations, trade and investment cooperation between China and Indonesia is bucking the trend, with China consolidating its position as Indonesia’s largest trading partner for nine consecutive years, and bilateral trade volume in 2021 increasing by nearly 60 percent year-on-year. China’s investment in various fields in Indonesia have seen a […]

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Iran joining BRICS ‘will add value’

August 19, 2022 CEN_com 0

The 14th BRICS summit took place on 23rd and 24th June 2022 by video conference hosted by China. Iran has applied to become a member of BRICS, and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi was invited by Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the summit. President Raisi gave a speech, elaborating on Iran’s viewpoints on the most important international issues and expansion of cooperation with other countries. According to a report by […]

Latin America welcomes BRI cooperation, not ideological confrontation

August 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has made steady progress in Latin America during the past three years, which has brought concrete benefits to partner economies with its people centered approach. The growing influence of BRI in Latin America, while the US-led counterweight initiative Growth in the Americas achieved little, showed cooperation and inclusiveness have outmatched confrontation and divisiveness in the region. Global Times on June 08, 2022 reported […]

Belt and Road – Going Green

August 8, 2022 CEN_com 0

China has responded to calls for a more sustainable BRI. As the developing world strives to meet the Paris Agreement target to limit global warming to below 2 degrees C, there is growing pressure on China to play its part in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. This pressure will only grow as China emerges more decisively as the defacto leader of the Global South and many European Union countries such as […]

BRI: China to build 1000 schools, 2 solar power plants in war-torn Iraq

August 7, 2022 CEN_com 0

Iraq has become the third-biggest Belt and Road Initiative partner in energy engagement, after Russia and Pakistan. Fudan University’s Center for Green Finance and Development in Shanghai reported that in 2021, Iraq received $10.5 billion in investment under the Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.  China–Iraq relations have advanced in recent years, but China-Iraq energy cooperation has been the cornerstone of their bilateral relationship since 1981, when the China Petroleum Engineering […]

China helps put digital television on the air in Timor-Leste

August 6, 2022 CEN_com 0

A demonstration project of China-aided terrestrial digital TV transmission system in East Timor (referred to as the “Demonstration Project”), was launched in February 2021. The project is a joint construction under the Belt and Road Initiative between China and Timor-Leste. China and Timor-Leste agreed in 2019 to introduce digital television to Timor-Leste. With the assistance of China, East Timor has its own digital TV system. The first batch of more […]

The new BRICS alliance: mortal threat to West

August 2, 2022 CEN_com 0

A new global reserve currency will undermine US dollar supremacy. China Environment Net comments:The author of the following article correctly describes the changes that are taking place in the global economy as “the biggest that have been seen since 1945. Yet there is very little discussion of it in the Western press or in political circles.” He asks: “Are Western leaders planning for this? Do they have a strategy for […]