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May 22 , 2017
  • The New York Times: Opinion Pages：China and India Make Big Strides on Climate Change
    The New York Times comments: "According to research released last week at a United Nations climate meeting in Germany, China and India should easily exceed the targets they set for themselves in the 2015 Paris Agreement signed by more than 190 countries. China's emissions of carbon dioxide appear to have peaked more than 10 years sooner than its government had said they would. And India is now expected to obtain 40 percent of its electricity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2022, eight years ahead of schedule...There is also a lesson here for the United States...China and India are finding that doing right by the planet need not carry a big economic cost and can actually be beneficial. By investing heavily in solar and wind, they and others like Germany have helped drive down the cost of those technologies to a point where, in many places, renewable sources can generate electricity more cheaply than dirtier sources of energy like coal. In a recent auction in India, developers of solar farms offered to sell electricity to the grid for 2.44 rupees per kilowatt-hour (or 3.79 cents). That is about 50 percent less than what solar farms bid a year earlier and about 24 percent less than the average price for energy generated by coal-fired power plants."
  • Bloomberg：China War Talk Not Serious, Philippine Foreign Minister Says
    Bloomberg reports: "China's President Xi Jinping wasn't trying to bully the Philippines at a recent meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte, according to the Southeast Asian nation's top diplomat. In a speech last Friday, Duterte said Xi had threatened to go to war with the Philippines after Duterte expressed an intention to drill for oil in the disputed South China Sea...Cayetano said Duterte only disclosed details of the meeting with Xi because he was 'being barraged with comments with what he should do.' He added that the Philippines won't form a military alliance with China, nor would it try to raise emotions against the Chinese. 'I hate the fact that China is claiming part of the territory of the Philippines but I love the Chinese,' Cayetano said in a speech during a flag-raising ceremony in Manila on Monday. 'Why? Because we hate the sin but we love the sinner.' Without specifying when or where his meeting with the Chinese president took place, Duterte said Xi had threatened to go to war with the Philippines after Duterte asserted his nation's sovereignty over the South China Sea by citing last year's arbitration tribunal ruling upholding the Philippine claim. 'Well, if you force this, we'll be forced to tell you the truth. We will go to war. We will fight you,' Duterte quoted Xi as saying. When asked to confirm Xi's comments at a press briefing on Monday, China foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying referred reporters to Cayetano's earlier remarks. 'We are committed to resolving the dispute with parties directly concerned, including the Philippines, through dialogue and negotiation,' Hua said. 'Pending final settlement, we advocate shelving the dispute for common development.' "
  • The New York Times：Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations
    The New York Times reports: "The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward. Current and former American officials described the intelligence breach as one of the worst in decades. It set off a scramble in Washington's intelligence and law enforcement agencies to contain the fallout, but investigators were bitterly divided over the cause. Some were convinced that a mole within the C.I.A. had betrayed the United States. Others believed that the Chinese had hacked the covert system the C.I.A. used to communicate with its foreign sources. Years later, that debate remains unresolved. But there was no disagreement about the damage. From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former American officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.'s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A. Still others were put in jail. All told, the Chinese killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 of the C.I.A.'s sources in China, according to two former senior American officials, effectively unraveling a network that had taken years to build."
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