6 d. ago Average annual PM2.5 air pollution levels in Beijing, China between 2013 and 2023

Average annual PM2.5 air pollution levels in Beijing, China between 2013 and 2023  Statista

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8 d. ago China, EU shift Nexperia strategy: let the companies work it out

Both China and the European Union have signalled that a dispute over semiconductor maker Nexperia should be resolved at the corporate level, according to China’s Ministry of Commerce, as affected countries continue to seek a solution to supply-chain disruptions. The push for a corporate resolution came after two separate video conferences that Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao had on Wednesday – with German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche and European Commissioner for Trade Maros...

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9 d. ago Breaking | 12 dead as Hong Kong’s Tai Po blaze raised to maximum threat level

Breaking | 12 dead as Hong Kong’s Tai Po blaze raised to maximum threat level  South China Morning Post

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9 d. ago ‘Pressure from China’: US, Philippines take cyberwar games to the next level

The United States and the Philippines are preparing to hardwire advanced cyber operations into the heart of their annual war games, signalling a shift from merely talking about digital threats to practising how to fight through them. Jennifer Schmidt, head of the US embassy’s information and communications technology unit, said specialised training ranges and sophisticated threat-emulation software would be incorporated into next year’s Balikatan drills so troops could rehearse defending...

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9 d. ago Are US, Philippines preparing for a future cyber ‘confrontation’ with China?

The United States and the Philippines are preparing to hardwire advanced cyber operations into the heart of their annual war games, signalling a shift from merely talking about digital threats to practising how to fight through them. Jennifer Schmidt, head of the US embassy’s information and communications technology unit, said specialised training ranges and sophisticated threat-emulation software would be incorporated into next year’s Balikatan drills so troops could rehearse defending...

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1 week ago ‘Important steps’: what Cop30 deal means for climate unity and Global South

A joint declaration at the Cop30 summit in Brazil – struck without United States participation after Washington withdrew from the Paris climate pact – has kept fragile climate cooperation alive for the Global South even as the meeting fell short of a fossil fuel phase-out. Observers said the outcome revealed both the limits of strained multilateralism and the room that still existed for developing nations to influence the global transition, with several pointing to the UN climate change summit’s...

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2 w. ago Missile defence in focus as China, Russia generals pledge deeper cooperation

The Chinese and Russian militaries have pledged to deepen cooperation in sensitive areas including missile defence, following high-level talks in Moscow involving China’s top general. General Zhang Youxia, the first-ranking vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, met with his Russian counterpart Andrei Belousov on Thursday, according to China’s defence ministry announcement. The visit – Zhang’s first in two years – signalled a continued strengthening of defence ties between the two...

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2 w. ago US unveils plan for oil and gas auctions off California and Alaska

The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a five-year plan to hold as many as 34 auctions for oil and gas drilling rights leases in the Gulf of Mexico and in federal waters off the coasts of Alaska and California. The Interior Department proposal is aligned with US President Donald Trump’s energy-dominance agenda to supercharge domestic fossil fuel production. It is likely to set off a fresh conflict with California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who is among the president’s harshest...

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2 w. ago Colombia pushes for talks – to include China – over US military action in region

Colombian President Gustavo Petro called for a high-level security meeting with the United States, China and regional partners, arguing that recent US military deployments and strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific are escalating tensions in the region. Joining other regional voices condemning the operations, he stressed that Latin America and the Caribbean should be treated with respect and repeated his proposal for talks in Pearl Harbour, noting that he...

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2 w. ago 🇨🇳🇩🇪 CHINA TO GERMANY: “HELP US FIX EUROPE BEFORE THIS BLOWS UP” Beijing just slid a quiet but loaded message across the table: Germany, you’re Europe’s heavyweight

🇨🇳🇩🇪 CHINA TO GERMANY: “HELP US FIX EUROPE BEFORE THIS BLOWS UP” Beijing just slid a quiet but loaded message across the table: Germany, you’re Europe’s heavyweight - use it. At a high-level financial summit in Beijing, China’s Vice Premier H  x.com

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2 w. ago PhD for landfill supervisor raises a stink over credential excess in China

A county-level sanitation office in southern China has invited ridicule and stoked a public debate after posting a job that requires a PhD to supervise garbage trucks and landfills – an unusual demand that critics say epitomises China’s runaway degree inflation. The posting in Guangdong province, by the office that manages urban environmental sanitation for Shixing county, appeared online last week under a notice for “urgently needed high-level talent for public institutions” issued by the...

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2 w. ago Pikachu protest at Cop30 takes on Japan’s fossil fuel empire

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference on Friday to send a message to Japan: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and other regions of the Global South. The Stop Japan’s Dirty Energy Plans protest aligned with the first of two thematic days with a focus on energy during the annual climate conference known as Cop30, held this year in Belem on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon. Organisers of the protest said the...

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3 w. ago Takeaway from Cop30: climate action needs to be up close and local

Spectating from afar during the Cop30 UN climate summit in Belem on the edge of Brazil’s Amazon forests, it is easy to despair. Despite 30 years of concerted global diplomacy and exhaustive scientific evidence of the gravity of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, as do global temperatures. Brazil’s rainforest continues to burn. Global oil and gas production remains robust. Governments procrastinate and funding promises still fail to materialise. Worst of all, the world’s...

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3 w. ago Family support helped adults in rural China to reduce blood pressure levels

Family support helped adults in rural China to reduce blood pressure levels  News-Medical

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3 w. ago Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are levelling off

Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are levelling off  New Scientist

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3 w. ago At Cop30, California Governor Newsom seizes spotlight and takes aim at Trump

With US President Donald Trump skipping the UN’s climate summit in the Amazon, California Governor Gavin Newsom grabbed the spotlight on Tuesday and unleashed a barrage of attacks on the fossil fuel agenda of his political nemesis. The well-coiffed Democrat - seen as a potential 2028 presidential candidate - blasted Trump for twice leaving the Paris climate accord and for “doubling down on stupid” through his support of Big Oil. Newsom said a future Democratic administration would rejoin the...

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3 w. ago Tesla Oct China deliveries breakdown: Model Y drops to lowest level since Mar

Tesla Oct China deliveries breakdown: Model Y drops to lowest level since Mar  CnEVPost

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