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Green tech bans not implausible
News, David Fickling, Published on 19/03/2024
» In a world riven by great-power conflict, economic decoupling, high inflation, and worries that the interests of capital are being put ahead of workers, an obvious enemy can emerge: technology. The best way to preserve the status quo is to destroy the machinery that promises a change to existing ways.
Climate key for US, China ties
News, David Fickling, Published on 24/07/2023
» In a relationship that's strained, sometimes it's a sign of progress if the two parties are talking at all.
Food subsidies perpetuate hunger
News, David Fickling, Published on 17/08/2022
» If you want an image of subsidised food in the world, you might think of Egypt, where the price of flatbread is fixed and more than half the population lives on loaves costing just 0.05 Egyptian pounds (8 baht) thanks to heavy government support.
Chinese food will determine spread of pandemics
News, David Fickling, Published on 24/01/2020
» With the world's largest high-speed rail network, a payments system that's largely conducted via phone apps, and half the world's solar-power plants, China often looks like a country at the technological frontier. When you consider how it feeds itself, though, it's still just catching up.
Trade war's about to hit pockets
News, David Fickling, Published on 03/09/2019
» Americans better make the most of their Labour Day discount shopping. It could be the last they see for a long time.
East Timor risks its freedom under China's BRI
News, David Fickling, Published on 30/08/2019
» Given a sad history of exploitation by foreigners, the young democracy of East Timor can hardly be blamed for being hell-bent on self-sufficiency. But its current drive to cement its independence risks squandering the faltering progress the country has made. If the government doesn't tread carefully, a future of debt peonage to China beckons.
The trade war could be fuelling the Amazon fires
News, David Fickling, Published on 26/08/2019
» The fires currently consuming Brazil's Amazon rainforest seem a world away from the tense diplomacy in the US trade war with China. In truth, they're more closely connected than you might suspect.
The world's last coal plant will soon be built
News, David Fickling, Published on 16/05/2019
» Fossil-fuel advocates have a favourite rejoinder to those who predict a global shift to renewable energy: Coal has never been more popular.
US needs help to take on China
News, David Fickling, Published on 15/05/2019
» Imagine if Canada decided to bring the US to heel over its abusive trade practices.
The trade war hurts US more than China
News, David Fickling, Published on 07/05/2019
» Trade wars are good, and easy to win. So President Donald Trump said last year as he embarked on his first round of tariffs on foreign imports.