China has extended its dominance at home and abroad over critical minerals that are essential to future high-tech and renewable-energy industries. Amid intensifying geopolitical competition, Western countries are increasing...
Three years after the Chinese government’s cautiously supportive stance toward the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan led to Chinese netizens blasting their government for being “Taliban in spirit,” China has maintained its...
More than three years after the military’s coup d’état, Myanmar remains engulfed in instability and civil war. China has more leverage in Myanmar than any other foreign power, and the ongoing crisis along the China-Myanmar...
As the U.N. COP28 Climate Summit is underway in the United Arab Emirates, bringing together thousands of political leaders and environmental activists, one topic that is sure to get little attention there is the environmental...
A crackdown on rural Jiangxi’s lithium sector that might snarl global supply chains has cast a spotlight on the conflict between rural economic development and environmental protection. Earlier this week, investigation teams...
Beijing begins hosting the 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting today. At the South China...
Photographer Wang Jiuliang uncovers the monumental waste created by development and progress. In...
With the U.S. expected to retreat from its role as a climate leader in the wake of Donald...
Last month saw the long-anticipated trials of three Guangdong labor activists charged with...
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been...
While heavily-disputed and sometimes illegal Chinese extraction projects in Myanmar contribute to...
In 2010, China, then home to 40% of the world’s proven rare-earth reserves, accounted for...
Martin Patience at BBC News reports that a resource boom in Inner Mongolia has brought pollution,...
While China is home to around 25% of the world’s proven reserves of rare-earth elements...
Despite persistent buzz about its ambitions in the Arctic, most of China’s polar resources...
On their website, The Third Pole has posted an interview with Gabriel Lafitte, author of the...
High Peaks Pure Earth has recently translated posts from Tibetan blogger and activist Woeser on...
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