China's Resource Risks

Photo: International Polar Foundation - Jean de Pomereu Despite its enthusiasm, China's efforts to become a key voice in Arctic affairs...

Photo: Ksenia Shaikhutdinova The most valuable resource to the average person today is a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. For China, which...

Photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times The COVID-19 vaccination timeline is on everyone's mind as 2021 opens in the U.S. with a tumultuous...

December 23, 2020 In this post,Chinasresourcerisks.com introduces "Book Talk," a series of ongoing posts based on interviews with authors...

November 16, 2020 Graphic: S&P Global Platts Three days after the U.S. presidential election, Foran Energy Group, an independent Chinese...

Photo: Dominic Reisig and Wes Everman Which candidate do Chinese leaders hope will win the 2020 U.S. presidential election: Donald Trump...

Map: The Conversation September 29, 2020 What is at stake in the recent Sino-Indian border clashes? Competing efforts to build roads,...

Trans-Mongolian Route for Power of Siberia 2 September 15, 2020 The Power of Siberia pipeline is finally shipping Russian gas to China as...

Photo: BelarusFeed September 6th 2020 The massive ongoing protests starting in August 2020 in capital city Minsk and throughout the...

Kvanefjeld Rare Earth Project August 30, 2020 Despite its small population (56,000) and remote location, Greenland has been attracting a...

#光盘行动# Chinese Communist Youth League "Operation Clean Plate" gets 620 million views on Weibo. A panda at the Chengdu reserve fully...

August 17, 2020 When plastic bottles with Chinese lettering appeared on the shores of the inhabited Galapagos Islands in mid-July of...

Photo by Wishnick and Robertson August 10, 2020 The reservoir of China's Three Gorges Dam filled up to within 11 meters (36 feet) of its...