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BEIJING, China (AFP) – China is targeting an ambitious clean energy goal of reducing fossil fuel use to under 20 percent by 2060, according to an official plan published by state media on Sunday. The cabinet document follows a pledge by President Xi Jinping to wean the world’s biggest polluter off coal, with a target of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality 30 years later. But the country has been criticised for pushing […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Success at the upcoming COP26 climate summit is “definitely harder” than the 2015 Paris talks which resulted in a landmark accord, the British minister presiding over the gathering warned Saturday. The October 31-November 12 gathering in Glasgow is the biggest climate conference since the Paris summit and is seen as crucial in setting worldwide emission targets to slow global warming. Alok Sharma, the British minister in charge of the talks, […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson Prince William presented the inaugural Earthshot prizes at a ceremony in London on Sunday, with projects from Costa Rica, Italy, the Bahamas and India picking up prizes. The new annual awards were created by Prince William to reward efforts to save the planet in the face of climate change and global warming. Five winners were announced, each receiving a million pounds ($1.4 million). The build-up to […]
by Shaun TANDON Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – Global momentum is building on the climate crisis but action will be impossible without two nations, China and the United States, which together account for more than half of emissions — and whose governments don’t get along. Ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, experts believe that breakthrough US-China cooperation could be the catalyst for a historic agreement on climate change — but also […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that he may seek damages from China over the coronavirus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan and spread around the world. “We are not happy with China,” Trump said at a White House briefing. “We are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source. “It could have been stopped quickly […]
by Thomas CABRAL Agence France-Presse LIBOS, Portugal (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Portugal on Tuesday for a two-day visit to boost economic ties, despite concern in some EU capitals over China’s growing influence across the continent. “Relations between China and Portugal are entering their best period… We must develop existing projects and step up our commercial exchanges,” Xi said at a meeting with counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. His two-day stay will […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday, Nov. 21, gave the assurance it would release all “pertinent information” about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit in the country. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement following calls from legislators and other high-ranking government officials such as Vice President Leni Robredo for there to be transparency in the deals the Philippines entered into with China. Xi and President Rodrigo Duterte witnessed the signing of over 20 deals, […]
(Eagle News) — All systems go na ang Malacañang sa dalawang araw na state visit ni Chinese President Xi Jinping na magsisimula sa November 20 hanggang November 21. Batay sa schedule na inilabas ng Malacañang, darating sa bansa sa November 20 araw ng Martes si President Xi Jinping sa Ninoy Aquino International airport Terminal 1 ganap na alas 11:40 ng umaga. Alas 4:15 ng hapon magsasagawa ng wreath laying ceremony sa monumento ni Dr. Jose […]
(Eagle News) — Chinese President Xi Jinping will be on a state visit to the Philippines from Nov. 20 to 21. This was announced by Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo in a statement on Thursday, Nov. 15. According to Panelo, the visit was upon the invitation of President Rodrigo Duterte. Xi will have been the first Chinese president to make a state visit to the Philippines in 13 years. In 2005, Chinese President Hu Jintao embarked […]
BEIJING, China (AFP)- Chinese President Xi Jinping treated Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to a state visit on Friday as the neighboring giants forge closer ties in the face of US diplomatic and economic challenges. Putin, re-elected to his fourth Kremlin term in March, arrived at the grandiose Great Hall of the People in Beijing for talks with Xi, who could stay in power for life after term limits were lifted this year. The two heads of […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) – The wife of a Taiwanese democracy activist who was jailed in China in a case which further strained relations was Tuesday barred from boarding a flight to visit him in prison. Lee Ming-cheh — an NGO worker arrested during a trip to the mainland last March — was sentenced in November to five years in prison by a court in the central province of Hunan on charges of subverting state power. Human rights […]
DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Vietnam for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on Friday (November 10). Xi will meet other leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday in the Vietnamese seaside resort of Danang. Agreement over the leaders’ statement is likely to prove one of the major sticking points of the summit due to the increasingly protectionist stance of the US.
