Tag: China

Categories Op-ed

Hot topics put on back burner as G7 is sucked into interminable Brexit row and summit descends into simmering row over sausages

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Tempers flare over Brexit and a beach barbecue dominates the sidelines, as UK officials target the ‘offensive’ EU while the rest of the world mulls how to outspend China’s Belt and Road Initiative and save the planet. … Read More >Hot topics put on back burner as G7 is sucked into interminable Brexit row and summit descends into simmering row over sausages

Categories Asia & Pacific

Massive gas pipe explosion rips through residential neighborhood in China, leaving at least 12 dead & over 100 injured (VIDEOS)

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A major explosion has occurred in the central Chinese city of Shiyan, leaving at least 12 people dead and over 100 injured. The blast destroyed a local food market and damaged multiple residential buildings. … Read More >Massive gas pipe explosion rips through residential neighborhood in China, leaving at least 12 dead & over 100 injured (VIDEOS)

Categories World

China scoffs at G7’s ‘international system’, says days when world was controlled by a ‘small group’ are over

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Beijing has dismissed the notion that G7 nations can chart the trajectory of global affairs, arguing that decision-making by small clubs has been replaced by genuine multilateralism. … Read More >China scoffs at G7’s ‘international system’, says days when world was controlled by a ‘small group’ are over

Categories Shows

Eric Li: US borrows from China to buy Chinese goods!

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Chinese venture capitalist and political scientist, Eric Li. He discusses why the 2008 economic crisis showed the West’s failure and China didn’t understand the gravity of the situation at the time, the importance of the Mao era in making China’s meteoric economic rise possible and the achievements during the period … Read More >Eric Li: US borrows from China to buy Chinese goods!

Categories Business

G7 nations seek to counter China’s Silk Road projects with ambitious infrastructure plan

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The Group of Seven (G7) countries have announced plans for a major infrastructure project for developing nations in a bid to rival China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as “One Belt, One Road.” … Read More >G7 nations seek to counter China’s Silk Road projects with ambitious infrastructure plan

Categories Russia

American efforts to undermine Russia-China partnership are doomed to fail because Washington doesn’t understand Moscow’s concerns

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The US is increasingly worried that Russia and China are forging a strong new strategic partnership. With Moscow and Beijing aligning their foreign policy stances, the relationship now seems to be an alliance in all but name. … Read More >American efforts to undermine Russia-China partnership are doomed to fail because Washington doesn’t understand Moscow’s concerns

Categories Asia & Pacific

China urges Taiwanese to get Covid-19 shots on mainland as island struggles with coronavirus spike

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Beijing has reiterated its call to Taiwan to remove “artificial obstacles” and allow “safe and effective” vaccines from the mainland onto the island, and invited the Taiwanese to come and get inoculated. … Read More >China urges Taiwanese to get Covid-19 shots on mainland as island struggles with coronavirus spike

Categories Asia & Pacific

Beijing passes anti-foreign sanction law to safeguard China’s core interests against Western interference

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The top Chinese legislature has passed a bill aimed at protecting China’s core interests, its businesses and officials, from foreign sanctions amid an onslaught of economic attacks from the US and its Western allies. … Read More >Beijing passes anti-foreign sanction law to safeguard China’s core interests against Western interference

Categories Asia & Pacific

Is China Turning away from the New World Order?

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Has China, in recent years, drifted away from the very globalist institutions that once praised it? This is a very difficult question to answer, but an important one to say the least. Many western populists and anti-elitists have been extremely critical of the Chinese regime and have often linked it to the very same globalists they continue to bash. Is this an accurate description of China? … Read More >Is China Turning away from the New World Order?