Source: https://www.ecowatch.com/china-new-solar-capacity-2023.html
China is the world leader in renewable energy, including 40 percent of the planet’s entire solar capacity, reported Rystad #Energy. The United States comes in second place with 12 percent.
[Beware Republican Interpretations Of This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwZ-DH6iDR
#BeauOfTheFifthColumn #Economies #News #China #Republicans #GrowthRates
Talks come amid years of deterioration in relations on issues including COVID-19, human rights and Taiwan.#Drugs #AsiaPacific #China #UnitedStates #US&Canada
US and China talk on fentanyl trafficking
Die Amazon-Serie „Expats“ erzählt von drei höchst unterschiedlichen US-Auswandererinnen in Honkong. Ihr Verlorensein verbindet sie.#Hongkong #Expats #China #Mutterschaft #Klasse #Serien-Guide #Medien #Gesellschaft #Schwerpunkt
Amazon-Serie „Expats“ mit Nicole Kidman: Gemeinsam einsam
In Simon Sebag Montefiores Buch kehrt die Universalgeschichte wieder. Sein roter Faden überzeugt dabei ebenso wenig wie seine Detailschärfe bei Grausamkeiten. Eine Rezension
Auf über 1500 Seiten erzählt dieses Buch die Geschichte der Menschheit – entlang eines roten Fadens, der nicht überzeugt. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Die Welt von Simon Sebag Montefiore)#Geschichte #Universalgeschichte #Familie #Pharao #Kaiser #Cäsar #Habsburg #Dynastie #Königshaus #Weltreich #Empire #Indien #Hohenzollern #Kolonialismus #Kolonie #Sklaverei #Sklavenhandel #Sklavenbefreiung #Mesopotamien #Orient #NaherOsten #Ägypten #China #Niederlande #Portugal #Windsor #Kennedy #Rockefeller #Getty #Rothschild #Medici #Kultur
»Die Welt«: Eine Universalgeschichte voller Sex und Gewalt
#china #photography #bridges
Jade Belt Bridge ~ Summer Palace
Peking, China
1924
Photographer. Sidney D. Gamble
"If Putin gets what he wants in Ukraine, Taiwan might be the next country to be invaded by an authoritarian neighbor," he said.
“It’s not only making Europe more vulnerable, but all of us, also the United States, more vulnerable, if Putin gets what he wants in Ukraine.”
The bloc's leader added that as a Norwegian, he remembered that when his country joined NATO, Russia also tried to frame it as a provocation and not as a country’s sovereign right to join a defensive alliance.
https://kyivindependent.com/stoltenberg-tells-us-that-china-is-watching-allies-resolve-on-ukraine/
#StopRussianAggression #RussiaInvadedUkraine #WarCrimes #invasion #China #Taiwan #StandWithUkraine
"Die Debatte um Chinas Klimapolitik wird zu ideologisch geführt"
Wegen der EU- und US-Wahlen gibt es 2024 nur ein kurzes Zeitfenster für Klima-Fortschritte, sagt Li Shuo, Chef des neuen "China Climate Hub" der Asian Society.#Klimapolitik #Entwicklung #Klimafinanzierung #China #NDC-Klimabeiträge #Serie:ChinasKlima-undUmweltpolitik
Die Debatte um Chinas Klimapolitik wird zu ideologisch geführt
Hong Kong court orders developer to wind up after finding company has no viable restructuring plan.#Economy #AsiaPacific #China
China’s property giant Evergrande ordered to liquidate as debt talks fail
Reuters news agency wrote in an exclusive report that #China asked the leaders of the #IRI to take action to prevent #Houthi attacks on ships in the #RedSea, or risk damaging relations with Beijing.
Die jüngere Generation in Taiwan kennt nur das Leben in der Demokratie. Die Kunst zeigt sich von der Bedrohung angenehm unbeeindruckt.#Taiwan #PräsidentschaftswahlTaiwan #China #zeitgenössischeKunst #Kunst #Künste #Kultur
Kunst in Taiwan: Postkolonial heißt hier konservativ
#Russia is attempting to deepen its economic and diplomatic ties with #China and the #GlobalSouth to allow it to challenge the international financial system
The document reportedly envisioned a new financial system and a Eurasian digital currency based on alternative payment systems between Russia and China to bypass the U.S. dominance of global financial transactions through the dollar
#StopRussianAggression #RussianAggression #financial #transactions #StandWithUkraine
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met to discuss bilateral relations.#InternationalTrade #Politics #AsiaPacific #China #UnitedStates #US&Canada
‘Taiwan independence’ an obstacle to China-US relations, says Beijing
The Guardian
Ukraine needs more help, the far right is on the rise and the Middle East crisis gets worse. Where is the European Union’s vision? (...)
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European Union flags fly outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters.
The way it’s going, 2024 could turn into a nightmare for the 27-country bloc – an all-time annus horribilis. A daunting slew of international and internal challenges is coming to a head. Is the EU ready to meet them? Definitely not.
Take the crisis in the Red Sea. Iran-backed Houthi militants have been attacking shipping there since the Israel-Hamas war began. (...)
The EU has an important stake in this fight. About 40% of its Asia and Middle East trade moves via Suez. But only the Netherlands provided hands-on assistance. (...)
Snoozing at the tiller, Europe is again failing to pair its self-interest and aspirations as a global actor with timely, concrete, joined-up action.
The Gaza war has exploded another illusion ahead of this week’s pivotal EU summit. (...) As Israel’s largest trading partner, they think the EU has leverage. All support a two-state solution. But when Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief, outlined a 10-point peace plan for Palestine last week, his VIP guest, Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign minister, ignored it. (...)
Europe’s bottomless capacity for punching below its weight is damaging Ukraine, where two years on from its invasion, Russia appears to be slowly gaining the upper hand. (...)
The failure of some EU countries, notably France, to supply more and better arms, as US deliveries dry up, is also harming Ukraine’s chances – and consequentially, Europe’s hopes of defending its borders from future Russian aggression. That’s especially pertinent given Trump’s prospective return to the White House a year from now. (...)
Trump’s resurrection “would endanger European interests but Europe is not investing in mitigating the risks.” (...)
[T]he geopolitical dangers facing the EU in 2024 are global – and exacerbated by the dithering of its wealthiest member. Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, “is giving no political or strategic leadership to a Europe that is ill-prepared for a possible rupture of the transatlantic relationship.” (...)
“Similarly, neither Germany nor Europe is prepared to withstand the growing influence of regimes that challenge the traditional prominence of the west” – a reference to China, a big trade partner and bigger potential threat. (...)
Germany is also a flashpoint in the main internal political challenge confronting the EU – the rise of the far right. (...)
New polling by the European Council on Foreign Relations suggests populist “anti-European” parties, principally of the right, will make large gains in EU and national elections this year. Migration, broken budgets, energy and climate are other explosive common denominator issues. (...)
Can the EU survive a dangerous, defining year? It will probably muddle through. But the sort of strategic leadership and vision offered by Jacques Delors, the legendary Eurocrat who died last month, is evidently lacking – and urgently required. (...)
Tags: #europa #european_union #gaza #israel #palestine #palestinians #houthi #red_sea #germany #france #china #ukraine #russia #putin #far_right #migration #climate #climate_crisis #climate_change #trump #nato #borrell
'Speak your thoughts loudly and without considering the consequences,' says the artist.#Features #ArtsandCulture #HumanRights #AsiaPacific #China
Brutality of oppression: Ai Weiwei speaks on Gaza, China and New York City
Wave of online scepticism about two stories of survival and success in China point to deeper public dissatisfaction.#Features #BusinessandEconomy #Media #Politics #SocialMedia #XiJinping #Asia #AsiaPacific #China #Tibet
Stories of ‘beating the odds’ in China draw dark responses from wary public
Michael Hudson: US imperialism, Krugman, de-dollarization, #socialism, #Palestine, #China. #eu #usa - YouTube — #michaelhudson #krugman #nyt #imf #usd #dollar #history #marx "> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Ef_hbNsBs
Liza Ostanina | 📷 Jumbo Tsui | V Magazine China, February 2024
#Photo #Fashion #LizaOstanina #JumboTsui #VMagazine #China #Colours
Chinesinnen bekommen im Schnitt nur noch ein Kind. Dabei gilt das Ein-Kind-Ziel schon länger nicht mehr, China verfolgt jetzt eine Drei-Kind-Politik.#Klimaforschung,Forschung #China #Soziales #Kinder #Bevölkerung
In China kollabiert die Geburtenrate
