China’s ongoing interest in securing delivery routes is part of a long-term investment that serves a variety of end goals, including its dependence on fossil fuels.
World’s largest dam to be built by China raises concerns in India, Bangladesh
China’s decision to build the world’s largest hydropower dam in a seismically active region on a river that flows into India and Bangladesh sparks concerns in both countries.
How China is expanding global influence via debt trap diplomacy
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has resulted in several unsustainable debt-for-infrastructure deals in South Asia and Europe, which further Beijing’s geostrategic ambitions.
Tibet earthquake raises a big question mark on China’s Yarlung Tsangpo super dam project
Why construct the world’s biggest dam in a seismically vulnerable region that doesn’t even require the energy it will generate?
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Tibet claims 126
The powerful earthquake that struck a remote region of Tibet was triggered by tectonic activity in the Lhasa block.
Chinese Conservative leader voiced concern as O’Toole pulled ahead of Trudeau in polls
Another blockbuster from Canadian investigative journalist Sam Cooper: Erin O’Toole, former leader of the Conservatives, was sabotaged from within his own party, emails reveal.
Bigger than Three Gorges
China announces the construction of the world’s largest super dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River.
Shamed into silence
A look at how digital transnational repression targets women human rights defenders.
Disrupting harm from PRC proxies
A groundbreaking new report exposes the expanding reach of Beijing’s agents in their bid to influence and threaten, if need be, diaspora communities and their leaders.
Frank speeches by economists result in mass online censorship, WeChat bans
Candid assessments about the state of China’s economy were circulated by netizens almost as fast as they were censored.
Fleeing Xi’s ‘China Dream’
The great exodus of people and capital as China’s economic decline and squeezed politics push many to vote with their feet.
Will the Liberals call an early election to dodge Chinese meddling revelations?
If the Supreme Court says MPs can name the bad apples in Parliament, parties with implicated members will want to pre-empt that possibility.
Trump ally on Canada’s fentanyl talk: Not good enough
U.S. officials urge Canada to start tackling big, systemic problems with organized crime.
Hogue inquiry document links B.C. premier’s concerns with foreign interference
Premier David Eby sought federal assistance in vetting candidates for organized crime and foreign state links.
Lab leak ‘most likely’ origin of COVID-19
A two-year probe by U.S. lawmakers concludes that SARS-CoV-2 did not originate naturally, as many scientists think, but likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.
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