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  • | Blaming China and other developing countries for climate change is simply racist | MR Online

    Blaming China and other developing countries for climate change ‘is simply racist’

    Originally published: China Environment News on August 22, 2022 by China Environment News (more by China Environment News) (Posted Aug 25, 2022)

    ‘Time to call a spade a spade ….’

  • | China ha construido la planta solar flotante más grande del mundo sobre el lago que dejó una antigua mina de carbón | MR Online

    Washington’s sanctions on Chinese solar panels: U.S. domestic deployment falls by 50% – global prices up by 30-40%

    Originally published: China Environment News on August 17, 2022 by China Environment Net (more by China Environment News) (Posted Aug 18, 2022)

    The U.S. publication pv magazine reported on 16 August 2022 that a large quantity of Chinese solar panels had been seized by U.S. customs authorities. The seizure were carried out under U.S. anti-China legislation, the so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act” (UFLPA).

  • | A US oil refinery facility Photo Asia Times | MR Online

    USA: World’s largest producer of oil AND its largest oil consumer

    Originally published: China Environment News on July 29, 2022 by China Environment News (more by China Environment News) (Posted Aug 04, 2022)

    According to an analysis by Elements Newsletter based on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022, roughly 43% of the world’s oil production came from just three countries in 2021 — the US, Saudi Arabia, and the Russian Federation. Together, these three countries produced more oil than the rest of the top 10 combined.

  • | Chinas farmers embrace rooftop solar power | MR Online

    China’s farmers embrace rooftop solar power

    Originally published: China Environment News on July 15, 2022 by China Environment (more by China Environment News) (Posted Aug 03, 2022)

    China has vowed to accelerate the installation of clean energy. Rooftop solar installations have emerged as a major force to achieve that. Nearly 53 gigawatts of solar capacity were added in 2021, with more than half coming from rooftop installations.

  • | NATOs expansion as US proxy to the east and the current Western sanctions against Russia have revealed the power structure of the contemporary world Graphic Rob Dobi JHU | MR Online

    Building the “New Three Rings”: China’s choice in the face of possible complete decoupling

    Originally published: China Environment News on June 2, 2022 by Cheng Yawen (more by China Environment News) (Posted Jun 14, 2022)

    Since the change of China and the United States in 2018, the world situation has been in turmoil, and various “decoupling theories” have become popular at home and abroad.

  • | A typical shanty town Photo Resilience | MR Online

    To eradicate global poverty and cut global carbon emissions, rich nations must change their consumption patterns

    Originally published: China Environment News on February 20, 2022 by Ayesha Tandon (more by China Environment News) (Posted Feb 23, 2022)

    Sometimes the aching injustice of human-caused climate change hits you square between the eyes. A new fact rears up that is potent, emotive and incontrovertible.

  • | The China Laos Railway provides a major goods transport link for ASEAN countries and China Photo shows an electric multiple unit EMU high speed passenger train as it crosses a major bridge over the Yuanjiang River in southwest Chinas Yunnan Province The China Laos Railway is a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative BRI XinhuaWang Guansen | MR Online

    ASEAN nations using Laos-China Railway for ‘green’, low-carbon freight

    Originally published: China Environment News on February 14, 2022 by China Environment (more by China Environment News) (Posted Feb 15, 2022)

    In early December 2021, Laos inaugurated the Boten-Vientiane railway, a 414-kilometer (km) electrified high-speed railway that runs between the capital Vientiane and the town of Boten on the Laos-China border.

  • | The Svartsengi power plant in Iceland was the first geothermal power plant in the world to combine generation of electricity and production of hot water for district heating Credit Kirill ChernyshevShutterstock | MR Online

    Geothermal green heating part of China’s decarbonization plans

    Originally published: China Environment News on January 27, 2022 (more by China Environment News)

    The city of Xian’s geothermal district heating in Shaanxi Province China serves as an example of the country’s decarbonization plans.

  • | The first generator unit at the Upper Tamakoshi Hydroelectric Power Station the largest of its kind in Nepal begins operation on July 5 2021 Photosasacgovcn | MR Online

    Nepal’s largest hydropower station starts operation

    Originally published: China Environment News on January 12, 2022 by China Environment (more by China Environment News) (Posted Jan 13, 2022)

    With the completion and operation of the Upper Tamakoshi hydroelectric power station, Nepal has not only resolved a long-standing problem of intermittent power shortages, but also realized the transformation from an electricity importer to an exporter.

  • | Train | MR Online

    Tibet railway in focus as China vows change for landlocked Nepal

    Originally published: China Environment News on December 14, 2021 by China Environment (more by China Environment News) (Posted Dec 15, 2021)

    In May 2017, Nepal joined the BRI with a hope of obtaining long-term benefits through a myriad of projects. The line has already reached Xigaze (or Shigatse) in Tibet. In July 2020 the next secton of line in Tibet from Xigaze to was still in the planning stage, although China had reportedly commenced surveying work.

  • | Lasting environmental and health impacts of US chemical warfare in Southeast Asia 50 years on | MR Online

    Lasting environmental and health impacts of U.S. chemical warfare in Southeast Asia – 50 years on

    Originally published: China Environment News on November 11, 2021 (more by China Environment News) (Posted Nov 12, 2021)

    The Vietnam War (1955-1975) is known to the Vietnamese as the “American War,” or the “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation.”

Monthly Review Essays

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    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

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