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• Global Rise (China)

  China welcomes ‘end of anarchy’ with Taliban’s interim Afghan gov’t, pledges US$31 million in aid

  8 September, by GRUNDY Tom

  China said Wednesday 8 it welcomed the end of “three weeks of anarchy” in Afghanistan with the establishment of a new interim government in Kabul, pledging US$31 million (HK$251 million) in immediate aid as it urged the Taliban to restore order.
  The Islamist group seized control of Afghanistan (...)

• Global Rise (China)

  China’s Overseas Investment in the Belt and Road Era

  20 août, par Globalization Monitor

  A people and environmental perspective.
  This report aims to provide an overview of some of the issues involved related to Chinese overseas investment and the consequences for recipient countries, the people and the environment. It is hoped that awareness can be raised with a view to (...)

• Global Rise (China)

  China’s dam frenzy

  16 December 2011, by CHELLANEY Brahma

  ’China remains the world’s biggest dam builder at home and abroad’
  China’s frenzied dam building recently hit a wall in Myanmar, whose bold decision to halt a controversial Chinese dam project on its territory has acted as a catalyst to a series of developments, including the first visit of a US (...)

• Global Rise (China)

  The Chinese equation

  January 2011, by ACHCAR Gilbert, LE DAUPHIN Jacques

  Discussion with Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African studies of the University of London (SOAS). Jacques Le Dauphin – How should we judge the rise to power of China, positively or negatively?
  Gilbert Achcar – That depends on the point of view that you start from. The (...)