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Australia, China deepen ties with landmark free trade deal | Reuters
Australia, China deepen ties with landmark free trade deal | Reuters. (Reuters) – China and Australia on Monday sealed a landmark free trade agreement more than a decade in the making, significantly expanding ties between the world’s second largest economy and one of Washington’s closest allies in Asia. The deal, which Australia called the best […]
Resource Insights: Did Russia and China just sign a death warrant for U.S. LNG exports?
Resource Insights: Did Russia and China just sign a death warrant for U.S. LNG exports?. Russia and China have signed two large natural gas deals in the last six months as Russia turns its attention eastward in reaction to sanctions and souring relations with Europe, currently Russia’s largest energy export market. But the move has implications beyond […]
Richard N. Haass | Why the Post–Cold War Order Is Unraveling | Foreign Affairs
Richard N. Haass | Why the Post–Cold War Order Is Unraveling | Foreign Affairs. In his classic The Anarchical Society, the scholar Hedley Bull argued that there was a perennial tension in the world between forces of order and forces of disorder, with the details of the balance between them defining each era’s particular character. Sources […]
Will Islamic State Cripple the Pivot? | The Diplomat
Will Islamic State Cripple the Pivot? | The Diplomat. The “pivot to Asia,” also known as the “rebalance,” is the most important geopolitical shift in U.S. strategy since the declaration of the “long war” (against terrorism) after September 11, 2001. Yet try as it might, the U.S. seems permanently bogged down in the Middle East. […]
And The Biggest Winner From The Oil Price Plunge Is… | Zero Hedge
And The Biggest Winner From The Oil Price Plunge Is… | Zero Hedge. “The Chinese, among others, seem to be responding to the lower oil price with additional demand,” notes one tanker executive as Bloomberg reports the number of supertankers sailing toward China’s ports matched a record on Oct. 17 and is still close to that level now. […]
Are The US And China’s Climate Goals Realistic?
Are The US And China’s Climate Goals Realistic?. At first glance, the agreement between China and the United States to impose new limits on their greenhouse gas emissions looks like an effort for significant cooperation between two huge global rivals. But not everyone’s convinced that their plan will address the problem adequately. The leaders of […]
Cold comfort as France, Germany eke out growth | Reuters
Cold comfort as France, Germany eke out growth | Reuters. (Reuters) – European stocks were flat on Friday after gross domestic product numbers showed both France and Germany grew marginally in the third quarter, while the dollar rose further against the yen on expectations of a snap election in Japan. The European data confirmed that the outlook for […]
US-China Relations Fraught With Difficulties, Experts Say – The Epoch Times
US-China Relations Fraught With Difficulties, Experts Say – The Epoch Times. MORE IN CHINA-US NEWS Obama’s Comments on Open Internet Meet Heavy Censorship in China Obama to Visit China, Burma, Australia Next Week China’s State-Funded Company Looks to Profit Off US Patents The talks between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese Communist Party head Xi […]
The U.S. and China agree to cap carbon pollution. Are we saved?
The U.S. and China agree to cap carbon pollution. Are we saved?. The United States and China announced a historic climate-change agreement on Wednesday. The leaders of the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters promised to cap carbon pollution in 15 to 20 years. Here’s a quick rundown: 1. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR CLIMATE? It’s a […]
Oil below $80 as slow China chimes with OPEC warning | Reuters
Oil below $80 as slow China chimes with OPEC warning | Reuters. (Reuters) – Oil fell below $80 a barrel for the first time since 2010 on Thursday, as more evidence of a slowdown in China’s resource-hungry economy chimed with OPEC warning of a substantial drop in demand next year. Data from Beijing showed below-forecast factory output […]
Oil Tankers Stream Toward China as Price Drop Sparks Boom – Bloomberg
Oil Tankers Stream Toward China as Price Drop Sparks Boom – Bloomberg. Add oil shippers to the list of winners from this year’s collapse in crude. The price plunge has spurred China, the world’s second-biggest importer after the U.S., to accelerate bookings of oil cargoes. It will also shave almost $20 billion a year in […]
Heinberg sees pain ahead for frackers
Heinberg sees pain ahead for frackers. Note: Segment begins at 20:57. Erin sits down with Richard Heinberg – senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute – to discuss oil. Richard tells us how he interprets the potential deal between China and Russia for Western Siberian gas and gives us his take on Saudi price cuts. […]
Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Says Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement Is Illegal
Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Says Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement Is Illegal. HONG KONG—Xi Jinping, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, has for the last six weeks been relatively quiet about the pro-democracy students and activists that have flooded streets in Hong Kong, calling for free and open elections. He departed from that quiet on […]
China’s Military Budget Could Soon Be As Big as America’s Washington’s Blog
China’s Military Budget Could Soon Be As Big as America’s Washington’s Blog. China May Be Closing the Gap on U.S. Military Superiority Frank Kendall – the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology, and logistics –has repeatedly warned that America’s military advantage over China is evaporating. The Weekly Standard reports: While the U.S. military’s budget is being cut, China’s […]
China Turns Up the Rhetoric Against the West – NYTimes.com
China Turns Up the Rhetoric Against the West – NYTimes.com. BEIJING — Even as his government was making red-carpet plans to host President Obama this week, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, praised a young blogger whose writing is best known here for its anti-American vitriol. In one widely circulated essay published by state news outlets titled “Nine Knockout Blows in […]
