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Canada-China trade dispute comes amid West’s paralysis of international trade governance

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

Policy complexity of Canada escalating the trade war with China In late August, Canada announced a 100 per cent surtax on electric vehicles manufactured in China, and a 25 per cent surtax on Chinese steel and aluminum products. The move was seen as a deeply hostile protectionist move, and an irresponsible and misinformed violation of World Trade Organization policy.  Reports from China have criticized the announcement, saying that it shows […]

China and West are driving in opposite directions on electric cars

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

Top German carmaker VW has reported a 26% year-to-date rise in fully-electric car sales in China—offset by a fall in sales, also of 26%, of the same products in the United States. Sales in Europe also fell, by 14%. The gap is widening, third quarter figures reveal. VW, maker of luxury brands Porsche and Audi, saw fully electric vehicle Q3 sales grow in China by 5.2% – compared to a […]

Ongoing US nuclear contamination of the Pacific Islands

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

Forget China: the U.S. is Its own worst enemy Pacific Island countries see U.S. treatment of the Marshall Islands as fundamentally unjust – not only in the past, but in the present – and it has severely damaged their perceptions of the United States. The United States is competing with China for influence and access in the Pacific Islands, a region that could play a crucial role in winning a war in […]

China leads the world in green hydrogen

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

In 2022, China set a target of producing up to 200,000 tonnes (t) of “green hydrogen” per year by the end of 2025, to help achieve its “dual-carbon” goal. A Norway-based research company reports China is projected to “exceed that volume” by the end of 2024. In the article below Carbon Brief looks at China’s green hydrogen production and utilisation, as well as what its future may look like.___________________________________________ Could ‘green hydrogen’ help […]

China and Brazil uniquely positioned to lead on South-South climate cooperation

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

At a time when economic and geopolitical headwinds are making ambitious agreement on climate finance more difficult, China and Brazil are uniquely positioned to set a new course for international climate finance, given their ambitious leadership, robust international advocacy and clout with Global South countries. Dialogue Earth reports that a recent ministerial meeting on climate change in China’s Wuhan set the tone: alongside South Africa and India, as part of the […]

Australia’s subserviance to US anti-China policy costs loss of ‘billions in green Chinese investment’

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

Australia has the potential to tap into billions of dollars of renewable energy investments from China but only if it changes foreign investment policies and its approach to the superpower nation. The think-tank Climate Energy Finance issued the predictions in its recent Green Capital Tsunami report, which found Chinese investment in Australia had fallen to a decades-long low despite China’s record investment spending. The Climate Energy Finance report targeted 130 major green energy technology projects – […]

China-Africa Alignment Weakens West’s Attempts to Impair Development of Global South

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

In this video Lena Petrova talks to Professor Anna Rosario Malindog-Uy. Based in Manila, she is an acknowledged geopolitical analyst who has written much on the issues of Global South development and the the geopolitical tensions in the South China Sea. She is a Senior Research Fellow of the Global Governance Institution (GGI), and a PhD candidate at the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development (ISSCAD), at Peking University, Beijing, China. https://youtu.be/L6i-xaQfX-k […]

Sino-Vietnamese hydro-power project: green energy cooperation

September 18, 2024 CEN_com 0

Explore the Seo Chong Ho Hydropower Station – built as a testament to Sino-Vietnamese cooperation, this station illuminates not just the local grid but also the lives of communities it serves. The Seo Chong Ho Hydropower Project situated in Lào Cai province in the northwest region of the country bordering China’s Yunnan province, was Việt Nam’s first foreign-invested hydropower project. In October 2006 the two countries established the Vietnam – China Power Investment Co Ltd […]

China’s decarbonization of aluminum and steel: what it means for renewable energy

September 14, 2024 CEN_com 0

China is pushing its steel and aluminum industries to adopt cleaner methods by incorporating them into its carbon emissions trading system (ETS). China’s recent move to include aluminum and steel in its ETS marks a pivotal moment for industries that depend on these materials, particularly renewable energy. Aluminum production in the United States is dropping rapidly and in the last two years, three plants have closed, leaving four running, with […]

China’s EV exports maintain upward trend

September 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s electric vehicle (EV) industry has demonstrated remarkable resilience and growth, even as the global market faces a temporary stagnation in demand. Last year, China’s EV exports surged by 70% compared to the previous year, reaching an impressive $34.1 billion. This growth is underscored by the domestic sales ratio of “new energy vehicles” (NEVs), which includes battery electric vehicles (BEVs), fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles […]