China’s gigantic wind and solar bases and climate goals

May 23, 2022 CEN_com 0

Published 2022/05/23 The following from Carbon Brief is an excellent analysis. Regardless of concerns about China’s coal burning, this shows how fast solar and wind can be built and deployed, a lesson for those in the U.S., who think it’s all fairy dust. It details an acceleration in China’s renewable energy expansion plans, driven in large part by the “clean energy bases” – unprecedentedly large-scale concentrations of wind and solar […]

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Ukrainian Azov troops in Mariupol surrender

May 18, 2022 CEN_com 0

Kiev puts on a brave face as trapped Nazi Azov fighters give themselves up to Russian forces. Western media avoids saying Ukrainian forces “surrendered” and are now “Russian prisoners”. RT News Moscow reports: The last remaining Ukrainian troops in the southern port city of Mariupol have started surrendering, after being trapped for nearly a month in the Azovstal steelworks. The massive industrial complex, with a network of underground tunnels and bunkers, […]

How China helps developing countries reduce debt instead of increasing it

May 4, 2022 CEN_com 0

“The Belt and Road, with infrastructure connectivity as its grip, is building a community of human destiny, which, in terms of its operational effects, reflects the common aspirations, experiences and common pursuits of the countries of the South.” Professor Justin Yifu Lin  With the rising debt crisis in Sri Lanka, Western mainstream media is again propagandizing the so-called Chinese “debt trap theory” using examples like the Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka. In […]

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No to a new Monroe Doctrine in the Pacific: Solomon Islands and China

May 4, 2022 CEN_com 0

Article by Carlos Martinez The Anglo ruling classes have gone into a state of frenzy over a recently-signed security agreement between the People’s Republic of China and the Solomon Islands. Various people who had barely heard of the Solomon Islands just a few weeks ago are now expressing grave concern that this small sovereign nation could be used as a pawn by an aggressive and expansionist China in its bid […]

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Why China stands firm on dynamic zero-COVID policy

May 2, 2022 CEN_com 0

“China is probably the first and the only nation in the world to take the suspicion of ‘must have something sinister’ for being too good at its work in fighting covid. Why? Because China’s dynamic zero policy is running against the world accepted measures like ‘living with the virus’ or simply, do nothing. What is dynamic zero policy? To put it in a simple way, it is about rapid response […]

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Agriculture and environment: China’s food security depends on self-reliance in seed production

April 22, 2022 CEN_com 0

The soybean plant is a native to China. Scientists believe that modern cultivated soybean was domesticated from wild soybean 6000–9000 years ago. There is historical evidence that domesticated soybean was introduced from north-eastern China 2500 to 3000 years ago, leading to the agricultural revolution in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.  There is an abundance of archeological evidence that suggests the Yellow River basin as the origin of soybean domestication. However, biological evidence based […]

China’s food security depends on self-reliance in seed production

April 22, 2022 CEN_com 0

Published 2022/04/22 The soybean plant is a native to China. Scientists believe that modern cultivated soybean was domesticated from wild soybean 6000–9000 years ago. There is historical evidence that domesticated soybean was introduced from north-eastern China 2500 to 3000 years ago, leading to the agricultural revolution in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. There is an abundance of archeological evidence that suggests the Yellow River basin as the origin of soybean domestication. […]

Exclusive interview with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the war in Ukraine

April 20, 2022 CEN_com 0

According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the current situation in Ukraine is a direct result of the US and West’s desire to rule and dominate the world. In the attached exclusive interview with India Today‘s Foreign Affairs Editor Geeta Mohan, Minster Lavrov talks about the reasons for Russia’s military action in Ukraine. This is an excellent, well executed interview – nothing like the one-sided factless propaganda of the Western […]

The Russia-China strategic partnership: Interview with Russia’s Sergey Glazyev on the emerging new global financial system

April 18, 2022 CEN_com 0

The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity. International affairs analyst Pepe Escobar, in The Cradle on 14 April 2022, interviewed Dr Sergey Glazyev, widely regarded as one of the most influential economists in the world, and the Minister in Charge of […]

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Western sanctions – the Blowback

April 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

Published: 19 March 2022 –Professor Michael Hudson Download Transcript Whatever the outcome in Ukraine, one thing is for sure the economic reverberations will be felt by everyone for years to come as the world divides between the West and a rapidly reshaping Eurasia.Host, Ross Ashcroft met up with Economist, Michael Hudson to discuss the tectonic shifts and fractures in the world and how sanctions against Russia are likely to reshape […]