Xu Yi-chong, Author at Asia Times https://asiatimes.com/author/xu-yi-chong/ Covering geo-political news and current affairs across Asia Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:20:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://asiatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ATLogo-192px.png Xu Yi-chong, Author at Asia Times https://asiatimes.com/author/xu-yi-chong/ 32 32 173017365 China quietly taking the lead in climate diplomacy https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/china-quietly-taking-the-lead-in-climate-diplomacy/ https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/china-quietly-taking-the-lead-in-climate-diplomacy/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:24:12 +0000 https://asiatimes.com/?p=767668

Seven years seems a lifetime in politics. In 2017, President Donald Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement. It prompted Canada, China and the European Union to convene an urgent meeting to reaffirm political commitment to global climate action. The successful meeting became an annual event which, this week, took place […]

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]]> https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/china-quietly-taking-the-lead-in-climate-diplomacy/feed/ 1 767668 China’s clean energy boom offers climate action hope https://asiatimes.com/2023/12/chinas-clean-energy-boom-offers-climate-action-hope/ https://asiatimes.com/2023/12/chinas-clean-energy-boom-offers-climate-action-hope/#respond Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:10:39 +0000 https://asiatimes.com/?p=752920 With an energy-hungry economy, an historic reliance on coal and vast manufacturing enterprises, China is the world’s single largest emitter, accounting for 27% of the world’s carbon dioxide and a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. But China is also the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels and wind turbines. Domestically, it is installing green […]

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