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The new global green power highway
Covid-19 is a harbinger of the ecological crisis that is now being unleashed by climate change, writes Han Seung-soo, IFF co-chairman, Silk Road International Association (SRIA) chairman, former prime minister of the Republic of Korea and president of the 56th session of the UN General Assembly. The SRIA can help realise carbon neutrality by turning the Belt and Road Initiative into a centre for clean power in Asia
Solar power from deserts in the United Arab Emirates has proved cheaper than coal-generated power
Han Seung-soo
This article is part of The IFF China Report 2021
Joe Biden puts the Communist regime in a triumphal mood. Wed Apr 14, 2021 Last month in Anchorage, Chinese diplomats Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi subjected Biden’s secretary of state Anthony Blinken and national security advisor Jake Sullivan to lengthy verbal barrage. For all its fury, China’s triumphalist rhetoric was only the sequel to an even deeper humiliation. In February, China subjected U.S. diplomats in the PRC to “anal swab tests.” In this routine, a Chinese doctor sticks a swab two inches into the rectum and rotates it several times, an invasive procedure to say the least. Chinese Dr. Li Tongzeng claims the anal swab is a more effective test for Covid-19, but UCLA microbiology professor Omai Garner says the respiratory test is the “gold standard.”
Biden needs to scrap Xi infatuation
By Joseph
Bosco
US President Joe Biden’s first news conference last month offered reassuring and concerning insights regarding his administration’s approach to China.
Biden did not mention the contentious meeting in Alaska where US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan confronted China’s top two foreign policy officials.
The Americans implicitly affirmed the administration of former US president Donald Trump’s direct pushback against communist China’s repressive domestic governance and aggressive international behavior. Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (王毅) and Chinese Central Foreign Affairs Commission Director Yang Jiechi (楊潔篪) had explicitly demanded a return to the policies of former US presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.