Global conferences demand that developing countries hasten their journey to clean energy, but African political leaders are pushing back. They want to develop the continent’s gas deposits, in particular, to deliver vitally needed power.
‘We are not the problem’ – Africa insists on gas as transition fuel
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CHINA: The West has Double Standards! West: China has Double Standards! Who is to be trusted?
Africa taken for ‘neo-colonial’ ride
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Jul 26, 2022
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 26 2022 (IPS) – Like so many others, Africans have long been misled. Alleged progress under imperialism has long been used to legitimize exploitation. Meanwhile, Western colonial powers have been replaced by neo-colonial governments and international institutions serving their interests.
Africa taken for ‘neo-colonial’ ride
[4.24.2022] US sanctions against Russia are illegal and only make things worse
4.24.2022 – Perpetually new sanctions against Russia, actively imposed by the United States and its European allies, are formally unilateral measures that have neither a legal basis nor UN approval, writes the Global Times.
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Notably, Washington is imposing severe sanctions on those economic sectors where US firms are Russia’s main competitors – ignoring industries where US dependence on Russian supplies is evident, such as titanium, which Americans use to make their aircraft and need rocket engines. According to Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Mikhail Popov, the United States has also allowed its companies to import chemical fertilizers from Russia while imposing a ban on other states, writes the Global Times.
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In addition, the US itself has felt the negative impact of the sanctions more than expected, the article said. Gita Gopinath, first deputy executive director of the International Monetary Fund, has already warned that financial restrictions on Russia threaten to gradually weaken US dollar hegemony and lead to even greater fragmentation of the international monetary system. And according to Andrew Milligan, a former UK Treasury official, the sanctions could also cause US corporate profits to fall, the Global Times reports.
US sanctions against Russia are illegal and only make things worse
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UN Security Council Sanctions (<—No UN sanctions on Russia)
G7: JOE BIDEN’S TOUR OF “DEMOCRACY JIHADISM”
Joe Biden wrote an op-ed in Washington Post about his Europe/G7 trip. The op-ed had 12 paragraphs and 16 mentions of the words “democracies” or “democratic.” This is the new religion of America, which cannot offer prosperity or economic freedom to its own people, let alone to others. The subliminal message about the word “democracy” is that it is the opposite of China and Russia, which were mentioned 7 times. In a nutshell, the core message is warmongering — how to contain the two nuclear-powered geopolitical rivals. These are very dangerous times.
G7 – JOE BIDEN’S TOUR OF “DEMOCRACY JIHADISM”
China does not have allies, but has friends with partnership diplomacy
By Xue Li – Global Times – 2020/11/8
The Wall Street Journal published an article earlier this month entitled “China’s Risky Bet on a Lonely Return to Greatness,” suggesting China has no friends. China does not have allies indeed, but it doesn’t lack of friends. This is not only because of China’s historical tradition and the current international environment, but also because of China’s own choices.
China does not have allies, but has friends with partnership diplomacy
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