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Mitigating global food waste: does China provide lessons to rest of the world?

February 23, 2022 CEN_com 0

The Chinese government has been firm and proactive in addressing the issue of food wastage in the country. The adoption of pertinent measures such as the Clean Plate Campaign spearheaded by President Xi Jinping, an initiative which seeks to mitigate food wastage and promote food security, and the passing of the anti-food waste law in 2021 at the session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee are all germane actions that […]

NATO expansion: truths and lies about US pledges made to Russia in 1991

February 21, 2022 CEN_com 0

Understanding the historical conditions and present strategic context that have led to the stand-off between Russia and the US regime (and its NATO proxy) over Ukraine is crucial to the broader picture of the development of the multipolar world. Central to this is to be able to distortions of historical reality peddled by the US on NATO and its similar strategy of “encirclement” of China. In 1991 as the dissolution […]

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New Zealand defies wrath of Anglosphere to sign major new trade deal with China

February 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

New Zealand – China Free Trade Agreement updated and ratified China and New Zealand have ratified an upgrade of their long-standing trade deal. The FTA was first signed with New Zealand in 2008 and it was the first such agreement between China and a Western country. Negotiations to upgrade it started in 2016. On 15 February 2022, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said the two nations had completed domestic approval procedures and […]

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Understanding China’s latest guidelines for greening the Belt and Road

February 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

The latest guidelines are another important milestone towards greening China’s overseas projects and investments. They are – to our knowledge – the most comprehensive document by any country regulator to guide environmental management of overseas projects by either public or private companies. This January, less than six months after publishing the “Green development guidelines for overseas investment and cooperation”, China’s ministries of commerce and of ecology and environment issued another set of recommendations with […]

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Along the Belt and Road: Breaking the Cycle of Underdevelopment in Latin America

February 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

By Carlos Martinez – Feb 10, 2022 The last few months have seen a significant expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although this region of the world is not the most obvious fit for an undertaking that was originally modelled on the Silk Road – a network of trade routes linking East Asia with the Middle East, Africa and Europe – the reality […]

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$117.5 billion China-Russia energy deal dumps US Dollar for the Euro

February 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

On 6 Feb 2022 China Environment reported about China and Russia announcing significant strengthening of cooperation between the two nations in the energy sector, with major long term oil and gas deals between the two nations being signed. The Chinese President said that China and Russia should strengthen joint innovations in major energy technologies, as a way for both countries to ensure energy security. This was a clear reference to the need for […]

Forget ‘BRI debt trap’ – US controlled World Bank / IMF is the REAL debt trap

February 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

Forget the fake Western claims about China’s Belt & Road Initiative: the US controlled World Bank and International Monetary Fund have been bankrupting and enslaving developing nations with crippling debt, “austerity” and financial colonialism for 70 years. While supposedly an “international organisation”, all appointments to the Board of the World Bank World must be approved by the US Congress, and the Bank has been, since its creation, headquartered in Washington […]

The end of US neo-liberalism – the meaning of Biden’s change in US economic policy

February 12, 2022 CEN_com 0

In the US President Biden is carrying out a revolution in economic policy which, without openly acknowledging it, in fact admits the failure of US the neo-liberal economic policies pursued during the last 40 years. Entirely abandoning the neo-liberal goal of “small government” Biden has unleashed the greatest increase in peacetime government spending in US history. This scale of increase in US government spending today entirely dwarfs previous peacetime US […]

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China’s response to climate change encourages others

February 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

Climate change is a real challenge facing all nations alike now. The temperature is rising in cities and various adverse effects including untimely rainfall, heatwaves, droughts, storms, floods, wildfires, and crop failures are being observed across the world. It is really distressing that during the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from October 31 to November 13, 2021, held in […]

China questions US biowarfare labs

February 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

China questions purpose of US bio-warfare labs in 30 overseas countries Published 2022/03/09 According to data published by the U.S., America has 26 bio-labs in Ukraine, which are under absolute control of the U.S. Department of Defense. The United States should receive multilateral check for its biological militarization activities and make a relevant clarification, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on 8 February 2022. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made […]