New Internationalist - 11.2019 - 12.2019

China HOW GREEN IS CHINA? Ma Tianjie examines the limits of China’s ‘ecological nationalism’. I n early December 2017, the notor ...

THE BIG STORY And the end of 2017 was a critical dead- line: nobody could object. The goodbye to little coal furnaces was non-ne ...

China the rapid coal-to-gas transformation authorities miscalculated available gas supplies – led to it being officially aborte ...

WHERE’S THE MONEY GOING? BRI RECEIPTS, 2013 – 2018 BELT AND ROAD Launched in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is reckone ...

THE FACTS MORE MONEY, MORE PROBLEMS The Center for Global Development has found that the BRI is ‘unlikely to cause a systemic de ...

THE BIG STORY LIVING IN A GHOST WORLD T he Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking, Muslim ethnic group who are native to Xinjiang, northw ...

China that this was necessarily the case or would happen. It decided pre-emptively that it would detain this number of people.  ...

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China jobs – especially in the lucrative oil and natural-gas sector – were not offered to them. They saw themselves becoming poo ...

THE BIG STORY Just as the US-led ‘war on terror’ pro- duced ‘blowback’, is Beijing not worried that its clampdown may lead to vi ...

China O ne recent Saturday morning I took my grandmother to the Nairobi termi- nus of the Chinese-built and financed Standard Ga ...

THE BIG STORY for money. The 472-kilometre railway was completed two years ago, at the cost of $3.2 billion, considered Kenya’s ...

China China’s engagement with Africa not just in mega-infrastructure projects like the SGR, but also trade, investment and aid, ...

‘J ust like a jigsaw puzzle, trying to find my place to be,’ belts out Xue Feng, lead singer of Beijing scream-punk band The Pep ...

controlled performances is one of them. There used to be more of a raucous indie music scene, flashes of which can still be seen ...

CAPITAL AT RISK. INVESTMENTS ARE LONG TERM AND MAY NOT BE READILY REALISABLE. ABUNDANCE IS AUTHORISED AND REGULATED BY THE FINAN ...

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SOUTH PACIFIC (^0) 50 miles (^0) 100 kilometres Nuku’alofa Nuku’alofa Fua’amotu Moto LATE TOFUA TONGATAPU TONGATAPU ’EUA VAVA’U ...

STAR RATINGS INCOME DISTRIBUTION ++,,, Corruption allegations have dogged all recent governments. It is traditional to acknowled ...

CARTOON HISTORY BREAKING WAVES The Sri Lankan war of 2009 marked the termination of a long and bitter fight for autonomy for the ...