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The Jewish lobby versus the Israel lobby

By Lawrence Solomon on May 25, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Other News Sources on May 13, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

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

By Other News Sources on May 10, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Patricia Adams on April 28, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

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

By Other News Sources on April 7, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Critics query hydropower path to carbon neutrality.

Our “Made in China” climate policy

By Other News Sources on April 6, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Other News Sources on March 25, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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”

By Probe International on March 16, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Other News Sources on March 11, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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?

By Lawrence Solomon on March 3, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Fan Xiao on February 25, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Lawrence Solomon on February 24, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Other News Sources on February 22, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Other News Sources on February 17, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“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 […]

India disaster highlights pressure on Asia’s great rivers

By Other News Sources on February 11, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

A glacial burst that triggered a deadly flash flood in the Indian Himalayas focuses fears on the impacts of “bumper-to-bumper” dam building in seismically active regions and China’s dam operations in neighbouring […]

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