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Archives: East Asia

100% Green Energy is Possible & a Chinese Province Just Proved It

TeleSur | - - New clean schemes push the nation further forward as a leader in search for alternative technologies. Demonstrating that renewables are a viable option for the future, China’s Qinghai…

Apocalypse Soon: Does Trump Downgrade of Diplomacy in Koreas threaten us All?

By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Defense Secretary James Mattis remarked recently that a war with North Korea would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale.” No kidding. “Tragic” doesn’t…

Trump, Paris Accords and the End of the American Century

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As Trump seems likely to pull out of the Paris Climate accord, he will be creating several kinds of leadership vacuum. One is…

Is China Now the Adult in the Room? Xi and Macron Consult

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump preferred the Neofascist Marine Le Pen as president of France, who wanted to pull out of NATO and the European Union.…

China’s covering a Football field with Solar Panels Every Hour in Quest to End Coal

By Janet Xuanli Liao | (The Conversation) | - - China’s remarkable growth over the past three decades has elevated it to global superpower status. But its economic miracle has also attracted…

Sorry, Trump: China is Leading World toward first “Ecological Civilization”

David Tyfield | (The Conversation) | - - The Trump administration’s hostility towards climate action and research leaves a void in global climate politics. Could China step up? The world’s largest absolute…

Does Trump’s slashed Foreign Aid Budget give China the Advantage?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US foreign aid budget is not mainly about helping the poor. It is an instrument for buying influence in countries important to…

Has Trump quietly surrendered to Russia and China?

Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - If there’s a single consistent aspect to Donald Trump’s strategic vision, it’s this: U.S. foreign policy should always be governed by the simple…

Could Trump’s War of Words with China turn Hot?

By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Forget those “bad hombres down there” in Mexico that U.S. troops might take out. Ignore the way National Security Adviser Michael Flynn put…

Trump’s Coming “Islamo-China” War . . . or, Whatever

By Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - What kind of national security policy will the Trump administration pursue globally? On this issue, as on so many others, the incoming…

Screwed?: 4 Top International Crises we have to depend on Trump to Resolve

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Within months of taking office, President Donald Trump is likely to face one or more major international crises, possibly entailing a risk…

The Chinese Solar Juggernaut that Trump Can’t Stop

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump has pronounced solar power "too expensive" and has pledged to revive the use of coal. The former is a falsehood, the…

Trump’s Triangle in E. Asia: a Force for Peace or a harbinger of War?

By Tim Shorrock | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - Despite the attention being given to America’s roiling wars and conflicts in the Greater Middle East, crucial decisions about the global role of…

How China will run rings around Trump on Green Energy, and Win Big

By Matthew Kahn | (The Conversation) | - - In mid-November, while Americans were preoccupied with election returns, China sent some of its clearest signals yet that it will continue to pursue…

China’s Wind Co. Profits, share price soar by 60%: 2 Turbines an Hour being Installed

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The South China Post reports some incredible figures about the profitability China's wind energy companies. A new study by the Bank of China…

Most US Networks black out US & China joining Paris Climate Accord in key Turning Point

Most US Networks slight coverage as US & China join Paris Climate Accord in key Turning Point

By Guy Dinmore | (Inter Press Service) | - - HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) - The world’s super-polluters – the United States and China – have formally joined the Paris Agreement on climate…

Dragon Rising? China seeks Closer military Cooperation with Syria

By Juan Cole | Informed Comment | - - The Arabic press is reporting that a high Chinese official on a visit to Damascus has announced that Beijing intends to strengthen its…

On 71st Anniversary of Hiroshima, the Fear of a Nuclear Trump

TeleSur | - - Donald Trump also recently asked a national security expert three times why, since the US has nuclear weapons, it can’t use them. Japan marked the 71st anniversary of…

The New Interventionists: It isn’t just the Yanquis any more

Mark Leonard | ( Project Syndicate ) | - - In the 1990s, after genocides in Rwanda and the Balkans, Western countries developed a doctrine of so-called humanitarian intervention. “The Responsibility to…

The Chinese are Coming: First ‘New Silk Road’ Train reaches Iran’s Capital

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In a sign of China's increasingly powerful role in Central Asia and the Middle East, on Tuesday a Chinese train arrived in Tehran…