WEST’S REAL CRISIS IS ENERGY, NOT POLITICS
THE NATIONS of southeast Asia are about to follow China in overtaking the United States and Europe in modern electrification, a new study showed.
China already overtook the OECD, a club of mostly rich western nations, in 2015, but the rest of the region is following suit,…
‘U.S. Department of war’ is a more honest title—and that is proved by the extraordinary story of a forgotten 1964 letter from China
TLDR SUMMARY: The world knows the importance of the nuclear “no first use” pledge but forgets that only two countries signed it, neither of which are in the west
IN 1964,…
IF AN ENEMY ATTACKS, the Chinese will defend their nation with the East Wind, a hurricane of power that will destroy his ship.
Then from the waters will rise a Giant Wave. And from the skies will fall a Sudden Thunderbolt.
If any enemies survive to continue their assault, a Cloud Arrow and a fire…
CHINA JUST STOPPED exporting its rare earths to the US—in a bizarre reflection of the US halt on stopping exports of high-end chips to China.
On April 4, the Chinese leadership placed export restrictions on two categories of rare earth products. One listed six specific heavy rare earth metals, and the other dealt with the…
CHINA WAS READY. Most nations expressed shock when the United States announced last week that it would impose what it called "reciprocal tariffs" on all trading partners.
But China already expected a dramatic escalation of US tariffs—and had taken steps to deal with it.
Last month, the Beijing leadership released its annual review, known as…
Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University sent shockwaves through European politics when he urged the region's leaders to realize some harsh truths. Russia is your neighbor, not America. China is not your enemy, it's your trading partner. Europeans need to stop being a tool of US foreign policy and stand up for themselves, he said.…
THERE IS NO RACE between China and the US to be top player in AI development, says a new report from Nature, the world's top science journal.
The two countries are on different tracks with different endpoints. The US has been leading the pack in making big, headline-grabbing projects like ChatGPT, while China's focus has…
Europe’s relationship with Africa encompasses significant grim history. Yet the continent is more central to how Europe’s future will look than ever. Meanwhile, China’s remarkably constructive relationship with Africa today presents a potential primary mode for substantially enhancing Africa’s prospects. This geopolitical fact also represents a crucial opportunity for Europe to partner with China and…
When new British finance chief Rachel Reeves said she was going to rebuild the friendship between China and the UK, a multi-pronged operation was launched to spoil her mission. It failed. Grenville Cross reports.
In 1986, then-US president Ronald Reagan said, “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.”
As the…
China just killed the fossil fuel car. The country is set to sell more than 12 million electric cars this year, compared to fewer than 11 million old-style cars, new figures show.
In Hong Kong, two thirds of new cars registered are electric vehicles, according to a separate source.
There's global agreement that mass market…
