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The New Vision for Belt and Road

February 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

With over 150 countries and international organizations participating in the Belt and Road, the initiative will be built into a more open and innovative one. Compared with nine years ago, when the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed, the current international landscape has greatly changed with both favorable and unfavorable factors popping up for cooperation on the initiative. More and more countries are now supporting and embracing the vision. It […]

China and Argentina sign nuclear power project deal

February 7, 2022 CEN_com 0

Nucleoeléctrica Argentina and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the development of the Atucha 3 nuclear power plant. World Nuclear News, 2 Feb 2022 reports: “The nuclear power plant, to be sited near Lima, about 100 kilometres north west of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, will use China’s Hualong One technology – the HPR1000 reactor, which will use enriched uranium as fuel and […]

Argentina officially joins BRI in major boost for China-Latin America cooperation

February 7, 2022 CEN_com 0

Argentina has officially joined the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on the 50th anniversary of China-Argentina diplomatic ties, with top leaders from both countries expressing their willingness to further deepen bilateral cooperation as well as cooperation between China and Latin America. Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez in Beijing on Sunday after Fernandez attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Following […]

China, South-South Cooperation and Small Island Developing States

February 5, 2022 CEN_com 0

In recent years China has increasingly emerged as a champion of “south-south” cooperation as a new model for developing countries to move towards increasing living standards in line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In January 2021, China issued a white paper titled China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era. It emphasized China’s responsibility to show solidarity with the rest of the world by supporting global public […]

Why capitalism needs imperialism to drain wealth from the Global South

February 4, 2022 CEN_com 0

We need to be clear on the impacts of colonial wealth transfers on the Global North, not just the Global South, because it was a two way thing. What was taken from the South is something without which the North would not be what it is today – in fact there would not be an industrial Global North at all. In this video, Rania Khalek of BT News interviews renowned […]

Stop blaming China for the climate crisis

February 3, 2022 CEN_com 0

Video explainer In this excellent brief presentation for the Friends of Socialist China YouTube channel, Carlos Martinez gives a comprehensive explanation of why the US and its allies’ attempts to push responsibility for the climate crisis onto China are hypocritical and ridiculous, and why cooperation on climate change is essential. China Environment has published many articles providing detailed analyses of the topics touched on by this video. For more on […]

Tonga eruption may damage environment for years – China sends more disaster assistance

February 1, 2022 CEN_com 0

Ecological damage The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said it was extremely concerned about the potential impact the massive volcanic eruption in Tonga will have on agriculture and fisheries in the area. The FAO noted that around 86 percent of Tonga residents are engaged in some form of agriculture, whether it is through crops, livestock or fisheries. The FAO said ashfall can have detrimental effects on crops and livestock […]

Belt and Road: China to help Nicaragua build housing for thousands poor and working families

January 31, 2022 CEN_com 0

China has signed an agreement with Nicaragua to build thousands of homes for poor and working families, expanding an existing public housing program in the Central American nation. Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government has signed a 3 year agreement with China to build thousands of homes for poor and working families, expanding the already existing Bismarck Martínez public housing program, Nicaraguan vice president Madam Rosario Murillo announced on January 28, 2022. […]

Global South Economic Alliance: China launches challenge to US hegemony

January 28, 2022 CEN_com 0

China is leading an international effort to develop alliances to counter U.S. hegemony. A new grouping of nations has been formed to promote China’s Global Development Initiative (GDI), and will complement China’s massive international infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative. In March 2021, 17 nations—many led by anti-imperialist and progressive governments, including Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia among others—formed a diplomatic alliance called the Group of Friends in Defense […]

Can the US seriously blame China for climate change?

January 26, 2022 CEN_com 0

At UN COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, the U.S. attempted to displace blame onto China for climate change, which was caused disproportionately by the advanced capitalist powers. While the U.S. media often calls China the biggest carbon emitter, this tends to leave out both per-capita emissions and the fact that these same countries have outsourced so much of their manufacturing to China. Rarely mentioned is how China is confronting the […]