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Tapping just 3.7% of solar potential in countries in China’s intercontinental infrastructure programme could power the entire region.
China and Italy’s presidents shake hands.
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Italy is neither the first, nor will it be the last European economy to follow its own national interest and look for Chinese support.
The economics of countries in the Indian Ocean region are rapidly growing.
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Around 80% of the world’s maritime oil trade passes through the Indian Ocean. And the economic and political might of the region is growing.
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Central Asia is at the centre of two new initiatives by China and Russia that run against a longstanding economic vision of the US.
Ambassador of China to Canada Lu Shaye is photographed at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Ottawa on May 24, 2018, following the announcement that Canada had turned down China’s takeover bid for Aecon.
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In the wake of the Canadian government’s rejection of a Chinese takeover bid for construction company Aecon, Canada must drop the ‘Red Scare’ rhetoric and figure out how to engage with a rising China.
The imperilled Tapanuli Orangutan in northern Sumatra.
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A US$1.6 billion dollar dam in Sumatra threatens the recently discovered and desperately imperilled Tapanuli Orangutan.
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he leaves a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing recently.
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Canada has reportedly committed more than $1 billion to a Chinese investment bank. Is Canada unwittingly serving as a ‘useful idiot’ in Xi Jinping’s grand plans to restore China’s lost greatness?
US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
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China is stepping into a soft power vacuum created by the new US administration. Since Donald Trump was elected president, the country has eschewed soft power.
A Chinese road-building corporation felling rainforest in the Congo Basin.
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Chinese investment is driving an unprecedented investment boom in global infrastructure. But despite its claims to be pursuing green development, China’s building bonanza is harming the planet.
China’s road to global influence runs through Europe.
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European countries are competing against Brussels and each other for China’s affections. And that is undermining the EU.
World leaders, led by Chinese President Xi Jinping, meet for the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing.
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The Chinese government has now clearly signalled its intention to assume a more prominent global leadership role through the Belt and Road Initiative.
A bridge too far?
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China’s One Belt, One Road initiative is holding international summit in Beijing, but no Western leaders have said they are coming yet.
China plys its trade in Europe.
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The One Belt One Road programme is much more than just a freight line to new customers in the West.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have just demonstrated to other world leaders how to possibly approach President Donald Trump.
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China’s new freight train line to London is part of an increasing web of trade routes designed to boost the country’s influence abroad.
President-elect Donald Trump’s avowed opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership will work in China’s favour.
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If Beijing can bring its neighbours to accept its regional leadership, China would have successfully achieved a dramatic reduction of US influence.
US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on tour by Grand Imam Ali Mustafa Yaqub at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta in 2010.
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Obama managed to build stronger rapport with many countries in Southeast Asia,but lacked foreign policy initiatives. China neatly plugged that gap.