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Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia – Pathway to brighter future

April 3, 2022 CEN_com 0

“The Belt and Road Initiative is a public road open to all, not a private path owned by one single party.” Chinese President Xi Jinping In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed building the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which involves a land-based Silk Road Economic Belt and a sea-based 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The BRI aims to build a trade, investment, and infrastructure network connecting Asia with other […]

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China wants a greener BRI

April 3, 2022 CEN_com 0

An interview with Erik Solheim, president of the BRI Green Development Institute, and former under-secretary-general of the United Nations and executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme The Belt & Road Initiative has been a resounding success in less than a decade, opening maritime and continental trade routes connecting China to the rest of the world. In this video GCGTN’s The Hub‘s host Wang Guan talks to Erik Solheim, […]

Rich countries must phase-out fossil fuels first

April 1, 2022 CEN_com 0

Rich countries must phase-out fossil fuels by 2034 to meet IPCC target. A new report titled Phaseout Pathways for Fossil Fuel Production, argues rich nations must phase out fossil fuels by 2034 if the world his to have any chance of keeping global warming to the 1.5 degrees centigrade Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change target. The Phaseout Pathways Report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, in the U.K., points to […]

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Russia’s State Duma establishes parliamentary commission to probe US-controlled biolabs in Ukraine

April 1, 2022 CEN_com 0

The Russian State Duma establishes parliamentary commission with four working groups to conduct a detailed analysis of all documents and facts. MOSCOW, March 31 (Xinhua) — A Russian parliamentary commission held its first meeting on Thursday, announcing the establishment of four working groups to investigate U.S.-controlled biological laboratories in Ukraine. The commission heard information from the Russian Defense Ministry on the investigation into biological research by American specialists in Ukraine, […]

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Rest in Peace, Zheng Wentai: Ecological restorer dies in Hainan aged 77

April 1, 2022 CEN_com 0

Zheng Wentai transformed tens of thousands of acres of barren land into a green paradise in Xionglong, south China’s island province of Hainan. An overseas Chinese returnee who had dedicated his life to ecological restoration, Zheng Wentaidied at the age of 77 on Tuesday, 29 March 2022. Born in Indonesia in 1945, Zheng returned to China in 1964. He started his career in the early 1980s as a real estate developer […]

Rich countries must phase-out fossil fuels by 2034 -IPCC

April 1, 2022 CEN_com 0

Rich countries must phase-out fossil fuels by 2034 to meet IPCC target Published 2022/04/01 A new report titled Phaseout Pathways for Fossil Fuel Production, argues rich nations must phase out fossil fuels by 2034 if the world his to have any chance of keeping global warming to the 1.5 degrees centigrade Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change target. The Phaseout Pathways Report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, in the […]

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Azov Battalion neo-nazi units shooting Ukraine regular army soldiers

March 31, 2022 CEN_com 0

Watch the video and read the transcript on Monthly Review: https://mronline.org/2022/03/29/ukrainian-forces-want-to-surrender-and-azov-forces-started-shooting-at-them-they-are-at-war-with-each-other/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ukrainian-forces-want-to-surrender-and-azov-forces-started-shooting-at-them-they-are-at-war-with-each-other&mc_cid=f9cb4175fa&mc_eid=a9616b6200

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China-Africa cooperation supports Africa’s transition to green energy

March 30, 2022 CEN_com 0

   As the world is grappling with climate change in consensus to move to green energy, China-Africa’s renewable energy cooperation is bearing fruits. In various parts of Africa, China-Africa cooperation brings in clean electricity to boost power supply. WIND FARMS UNINTERRUPTEDLY PROVIDE ELECTRICITY In De Aar, central South Africa, long and white blades on high towers were rotating like fans on top of the mountain. Companies formed by China’s Longyuan […]

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Tanzania-China relations ‘at best in history’ as BRI aligns with Tanzania’s Development Vision 2025

March 30, 2022 CEN_com 0

On March 20, 2022, Tanzanian Minister for Foreign Affairs Liberata Mulamula paid a visit to China via video link, during which, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held video talks with her. The two sides agreed to deepen the bilateral comprehensive cooperative partnership and to further align the Belt and Road Initiative with Tanzania’s Development Vision 2025 and expand bilateral cooperation in agriculture, trade, investment, infrastructure and other fields. […]

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US dollar reserve system begins to unravel

March 29, 2022 CEN_com 0

“By seizing several hundred billion dollars of Russia’s central bank reserves, Washington has put a question mark over the rationale for the existing financial system, and encouraged the rest of the world to ‘rethink currency reserve holdings’ – in plain English, that means to rethink the trillion dollars a year that the rest of the world lends to the United States.” Asia Times “Russia and India took a small but […]