The Chinese government has pledged that China will hit peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and become carbon neutral before 2060. Very soon after this news, "emission peak" and "carbon neutrality" have become buzzwords in China's financial, energy and industrial circles. Relevant seminars and forums are being held almost every day in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
The New Zealand parliament’s unanimous declaration last week that human rights abuses were occurring in China’s Xinjiang province drew condemnation from Beijing, but the removal of the term “genocide” suggested Wellington is unwilling to jeopardise relations, analysts said.
British columnist Martin Wolf made a claim in his recent Financial Times article titled "China is wrong to think the US faces inevitable decline." Wolf wrote that it is wrong for Chinese elites to assume that the US is in irreversible decline. He justified his views by ranking the values of global companies.
Perhaps not since the Congress of Vienna in 1814 has a limited group of nations attempted to set up a world order in which they made the rules for the rest of the world. Missing in that group was the United States, indeed the entire Western hemisphere, most of which was still under the colonial boot as well as the most populous Chinese Empire. That order only lasted – very tenuously – until 1848. The order which the G7 is attempting to uphold is already on its last legs.
While India's ferocious COVID-19 resurgence is shocking the world, some institutions have started to review their estimation for Indian GDP in the 2021-22 fiscal year, with Oxford Economics lowering India's growth to 10.2 percent from 11.8 percent.
Many of the problems that have arisen since the beginning of the 21st century are ultimately the result of American-style capitalism - especially the social divisions in the US itself.
May 21 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan. Islamabad is Beijing's all-weather strategic cooperative partner. In the words of Pakistanis, the time-tested strategic partnership is higher than the Himalayas, deeper than the Arabian Sea, sweeter than honey, firmer than steel, and more precious than eyes. In Chinese words, it is "iron friend."
US President Joe Biden held a two-day virtual climate summit attended by 40 other world leaders with the aim to address the global climate crisis. China was one of the participants. Indeed, China and the US are jointly shouldering responsibilities as major powers for climate change, laying the foundation for cooperation in the field of green finance.
US President Joe Biden will cross the 100-day mark of his presidency on Friday. As his China policy gradually takes shape, it seems he has adopted much of the Trump administration's wrong path, pushing the bilateral relationship further toward dangerous confrontation.
The US’ image among the Indian public is crumbling as India’s conoravirus cases soar, yet the US failed to offer any solid assistance. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted on Sunday, “Our hearts go out to the Indian people in the midst of the horrific COVID-19 outbreak. We are working closely with our partners in the Indian government…” But the rhetoric was defined by Indian netizens as “crocodile tears.” Most Indian net users who commented under the tweet share one consensus – the US is no friend in times of need.
A powerful explosion struck the parking lot of a luxury hotel in Quetta, Balochistan province in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday. Officials said at least four people were killed and 12 others wounded. Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong was leading a visiting Chinese delegation that stayed at the hotel. The Chinese delegation was safe and all casualties were of Pakistani nationals, officials said.
Themed as "Sustainable Recovery for a Green Future," the event was organized by the Institute for International Political Studies -- Italy's national coordinator of the Think20, the G20 body bringing together major think tanks -- and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China. A panel of experts addressed climate change, energy transition and sustainable growth.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously passed the Strategic Competition Act of 2021 on April 21. The mastodon legislation will be further the attempts by the U.S. government to monitor and restrict China's technological development with the explicit goal of slowing it down or, indeed, sabotaging it completely.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday had a virtual meeting with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and they reached consensus on opposing economic decoupling. Wang said that major economies like China and Germany should jointly resist decoupling, and Maas noted that decoupling is not in any party's interests, according to a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
After the US identified China as a strategic competitor, US President Joe Biden announced his plan to invest more in chips, infrastructure and many other areas to maintain US' advantages over China.
Former officials, top scholars and a dozen of young scholars from China and the US had in-depth discussions on how to get China-US relations back on track at a forum held in Beijing on April 10.
There is a high likelihood that China and the US will post a bilateral trade record this year, experts said, as their industries and economies are closely intertwined and cannot be decoupled, despite ongoing geopolitical spats and some US politicians' hue and cry intended to stem China's rise.
By scaling up carbon capture, use and storage, China can play a leading role in achieving the global ambition of climate neutrality
China and the US issued a joint statement on climate change on Sunday following US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry's visit to Shanghai and meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's visit to Washington as the first world leader to meet personally with the newly elected U.S. president no doubt had its appeal for the new leader of Japan, but uniting the with the U.S. President Biden in his concerted effort to contain China will have its problems. The Joint Statement issued from the meeting reveled in these two major powers joining hands to assure a "free and open Indo-Pacific."