A remapping of global commodity flows driven by strategic security rather than price efficiency is underway. The PRC, the world’s biggest farm importer, is shifting away from old Western partners and toward a new nexus of suppliers in the Global South.
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25 Nov 2025
Trump's return has triggered a sharp reassessment within PRC policy circles about US power and the global ideological order. Three prominent analysts frame the debate.
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geopolitics
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20 Nov 2025
Much focus is on the visible boom in renewables and transport electrification as a driver of this peak. But a structural change is equally important: heavy industry output, responsible for over half of PRC emissions, is in decline due to the housing downturn. A shrinking population means fewer steel and cement emissions.
economy
industry
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14 Nov 2025
Five dams in the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, powering the Medog Hydropower Station, will generate 60 gigawatts of electricity. At full tilt, the complex will pump out 300 TWh a year—21 percent of the PRC's total hydropower output in 2024 and three times the might of the Three Gorges Dam.
energy
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07 Nov 2025
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Beijing’s new food security atlas
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the new US debate in China
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how will the PRC decarbonise industry?
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are Tibet dams old-style stimulus?
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recent commentary
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strategic and emerging industriescapacity cooperationWTOBRICSinstitutional voiceforeign policy rhetoricUNSCOecological civilisationenvironmental law...read more05 Nov 2025
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US/Canada...read more03 Nov 2025
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growth modelmoney supplybanking regulationhousing priceshousing stockNorth East AsiaUS/Canadapolitical trendssupervisionaccountability...read more03 Nov 2025
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energy transitiongaspetroleumgridelectricityenergy securitydual controlcarbon neutrality...read more02 Nov 2025
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Li KeqiangNational Innovation Centre of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (CICV) chief scientist
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Zeng MingNorthern China Electric Power University Energy and Internet Research Centre director
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