Two strong and separate earthquakes rattled northwest and southwest China this month – one of them the strongest since the devastating Wenchuan earthquake of 2008. The series of May quakes are part of […]
The Jewish lobby versus the Israel lobby
The bulk of the pro-Israel lobby is not dominated by Jewish Americans, but the anti-Israel lobby is another story.
China’s pledge to battle climate change
Does China have the ability to cut its carbon footprint as they have pledged, or is it a ploy to keep its trading partners happy? Probe International’s Patricia Adams joins Between the […]
CCP’s Mekong River Belt and Road projects a Faustian bargain, says expert
Renowned hydrology expert Wang Weiluo says the Chinese Communist Party is looking to utilize the Mekong River in the same way the undertaking of the Three Gorges Dam colossus was viewed as […]
China’s energy actions speak louder than its climate pledges
China is hell-bent on increasing CO2 emissions to meet its often-stated strategic objective of world domination. Probe International’s Patricia Adams gets behind the charade on China’s climate change dance with the West.
China’s dam rush
Critics query hydropower path to carbon neutrality.
Our “Made in China” climate policy
The main beneficiary of Canada’s climate policy is not the climate. It’s China. Legal expert Andrew Roman unpacks why countries that reduce their emissions last will come out on top in the […]
Hydropower development on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River is an illegal project
China’s new Five-Year plan (2021-2025) has given the green light to build dams on the lower reaches of Yarlung Zangbo, the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River in Tibet before it flows […]
Dai Qing’s “Green Ideas”
This summer, Dai Qing, the legendary Chinese investigative journalist, Probe International Fellow and one of China’s most iconic environmental voices will join the Penguin Classics canon in a new series on the […]
Chinese regime controls ASEAN countries via Mekong ‘water tap,’ expert says
Southeast Asia’s “mother of waters” has become a political bargaining chip in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The only country located entirely on the Mekong River’s upper reaches, the […]
Is the US becoming less free than Russia?
Russians don’t aspire to be Woke Americans and Americans don’t aspire to live under Russian-style strong-man rule. But unless the trend reverses, Americans could do worse.
Seismic activity in the Three Gorges region – 2021 update
Since the impoundment of the Three Gorges reservoir began in 2003, tens of thousands of earthquakes have been recorded in the reservoir area. Chinese geologist and environmentalist, Fan Xiao, looks at the […]
Canada’s rare earths could crush China’s dominance
Chinese leaders have seen rare earths as a kind of secret weapon that will catapult China to success. Rare earths can also be used to serve peace and enhance security.
A plague on both our houses
The World Health Organization investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic did not provide answers but it did reveal a very concerning habit on the part of modern scientific research: a […]
Chinese writer and PEN America honoree marks one year in detention
“At every turn, the government has chosen to double-down on repression, rather than to permit Xu [Zhiyong] and [partner] Li [Qiaochu] the basic human right to express themselves freely.” PEN America calls […]
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