Yuen Yuen Ang draws parallels between today’s China and America during its Gilded Age of wealth and corruption.
ASIES
14.2K views |
+1 today
 Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
Phosphorus is a non-renewable resource that we are rapidly running out of. This is a big problem because it is an essential ingredient in fertilisers – even as it is a major pollutant. We must address both problems with systemic change, not incremental steps. 
Scoop.it!
The central bank is constrained by its own limits on the yuan
Scoop.it!
Measures include making it easier for Taiwanese people to live and work in China, but the plan comes amid major military exercises
Scoop.it!
La relative résistance de l’économie russe s’explique notamment par la place grandissante du yuan chinois dans ses échanges financiers extérieurs.
Scoop.it!
Winemakers hope India could one day replace the $1.2bn Chinese market, but that demand would take ‘decades’ to develop
Scoop.it!
India’s decision to ban exports of some rice was based on domestic reasons, but it’s had a global impact.
Scoop.it!
When hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers fight to be heard, one journalist is determined to give them a voice.
Scoop.it!
Extreme weather in China is a harbinger of challenges to come | China
Scoop.it!
L'eau est essentielle à toutes les formes de vie sur Terre, mais les phénomènes climatiques extrêmes et la mauvaise gestion des ressources ont fait surgir le spectre de la pénurie d'eau, plaçant les nations et les écosystèmes vulnérables face à des défis complexes. Via CIHEAM News
Scoop.it!
China’s awareness of food insecurity increased as tensions with US grew and Russia invaded Ukraine. Finding farmers may be difficult.
Scoop.it!
En échange du blé Israël fournira l'Azerbaïdjan et à l'Ouzbékistan des technologies de pointe dans le domaine de l'agriculture
Scoop.it!
China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 as a sizable infrastructure development initiative to connect Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road routes through a network of various projects.
|
Scoop.it!
There are multiple intriguing, often competing, narratives about the future of work. To some, it is digital, virtual, inclusively diverse, and overall promising. To others, it is scary, with machines taking over most of the work we thought we could do. Giant tech companies made much noise a couple of years ago by calling for universal basic income to compensate for anticipated job losses. Even creative writing, what we humans thought we could exclusively do, was threatened by the recent emergence of ChatGPT. One of the less circulated narratives about the future of work is that it can be green. Via CIHEAM News
Scoop.it!
Aside from the domino effect of a Chinese economic slowdown, the US has several deeply vulnerable sectors, from tech and drugs to agriculture and rare earths. A belief that US has little exposure to China’s problems is misguided.
Scoop.it!
Japan’s dairy industry needs to reinvent itself to sidestep global uncertainty and embrace shifting domestic preferences.
Scoop.it!
Erevan et Bakou risquent peut-être de se confronter une nouvelle fois sur le champ de bataille, trois ans après la guerre de 2020 : pourquoi les relations des deux pay
Scoop.it!
China’s economic downturn is typical of any credit-driven boom and bust cycle. But Xi’s support for Putin’s war of choice in Ukraine renders any course correction more difficult to engineer.
Scoop.it!
Demand for durians has soared 400% year-on-year, largely bolstered by a "craze" for the fruit in China, said HSBC.
Scoop.it!
While the yield for 2022-2023 was 136 million metric tonnes, USDA's projected yield for 2023-2024 September is 132 million metric tonnes.
Scoop.it!
Chinese agriculture has not had an easy year.
Scoop.it!
In Northeast China, unique geography and valuable black soil yield high-quality agricultural products. To meet market demands, northeastern agricultural products in recent years have been embracing innovation and green growth.
Scoop.it!
China has a fifth of the world’s population but just 9 percent of its arable land—and that bit is increasingly underwater.
Scoop.it!
Les prix du sucre atteignent leur plus haut depuis douze ans. À l'origine des tensions sur le marché, la production indienne en baisse.
Scoop.it!
Spring rain improves crop prospects for world’s largest flour exporter Via CIHEAM News, Système de veille
|
