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A defining moment for energy security, prosperity
Oped, Gaston Browne, Published on 28/03/2025
» From March 12-13, heads of state, ministers of finance and energy, investors, civil-society groups, and energy-industry leaders convened in Barbados for the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll) Forum. The conference's theme -- Sustainable Energy for Equity, Security, and Prosperity -- captured an often underappreciated reality: the clean-energy transition is vital not only to protect the planet but also to enhance economic resilience and energy security in an uncertain global setting.
Trump has secret allies in China
News, Andrew Browne, Published on 15/01/2019
» In his tariff war with China, US President Donald Trump has some hidden allies. Just about every complaint US trade negotiators raised in Beijing last week -- not to mention their doubts about the sincerity of China's concessions -- are shared by Chinese entrepreneurs, who feel as underappreciated and unwelcome as their foreign counterparts. Their common enemy: the Chinese industrial state, an animus summed up in China by the lament guo jin, min tui -- the state advances, the private sector retreats.
Xi's not for turning? Don't be so sure
News, Andrew Browne, Published on 05/12/2018
» As president-for-life, China's Xi Jinping is neither bound by rules nor limited by rivals. He has upended a careful political balance by concentrating power in his own hands, and overturned a cautious approach to foreign policy, while throwing in jail anyone he views as a threat. China's most dominant leader since Mao Zedong now has 90 days to head off an all-out trade war with the US provoked, in part, by his own mercantilist policies. Can anybody convince him to make a U-turn?
Together, we can transform China
News, Andrew Browne, Published on 26/11/2018
» The behaviour of Chinese officials at last weekend's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Papua New Guinea, reportedly barging into the foreign minister's office to try to cut mildly critical language on trade from a final communique, seemed intended to signal that China won't budge an inch on US demands. Commerce Minister Zhong Shan has declared that those who assume Beijing will cave to President Donald Trump's bullying "don't know the history and culture of China". As a matter of fact, they might understand it better than he thinks.