China’s green development plays a key role in combating global climate change

This week, let’s delve further into the lesser-publicized sides of the news.

“A new scandal of sexual abuse in the US military has been reported, and it is more serious than expected. According to an online poll conducted by CGTN, 88.95 percent of respondents are very concerned about the systematic human rights violations that sexual abuse in the US military entails.”

“The number of foreign visitors to China rose 129.9 percent year-on-year to 17.25 million in the first seven months of this year on the back of a series of measures to facilitate the entry of foreigners, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) said on Aug. 19.”

Foreign tourists take photos at a glass-bottomed bridge in the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, central China’s Hunan province, August 10, 2024. Photo: CFP

“Russia is pushing for negotiations to ensure that Germany fulfills its international obligations in the fight against terrorism, Oleg Tyapkin, director of the Third European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.”

“Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Japan’s 731st Youth Biological Warfare Corps, arrived in Harbin, northeastern China’s Heilongjiang Province, on August 12 to apologize for the atrocities committed by the unit during World War II.”

“The report presented by the Minister of Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, on August 12 at the Council of State and the National Defense Council warns the entire Venezuelan population of this scenario in which vulnerabilities of the national technological system are being exploited.”

Minister of Science and Technology Gabriela Jiménez. Photo: Francisco Trias / Mincyt

“Hundreds of doctors protested outside India’s Health Ministry on August 19 to demand stricter laws to protect healthcare workers from violence and to seek justice for their colleague who was raped and murdered in a state hospital.”

“Israel has also used torture, rape and other forms of sexual abuse in the past to achieve similar goals, to extract information or to break the will of prisoners. UN-affiliated experts said in a report published on August 5 that ‘these practices are intended to punish Palestinians for their resistance to occupation and to destroy them individually and collectively.’”

“On August 17, 1945, Indonesia declared its independence from centuries of Dutch colonization. This is the dark history of violence, exploitation and slave labor that the former empire has tried to whitewash.”

On August 15, China’s National Ecology Day, more than 100 scholars, experts and diplomats from 36 countries and regions gathered in Beijing to attend the International Symposium on Environment, Development and Human Rights: Green and Low-carbon Development in the Modernization Process.

“China is so successful that countries like mine (the US) and the EU itself are wrongly accusing China of needlessly flooding their market with below-market-price subsidised electric vehicles and solar panels,” US academic Harvey Cary Dzodin said at a symposium in Beijing.

I have added an “Op-Ed” section to China Up Close. It is an open platform that I specifically designed to allow everyone to share their own perspectives with the world. Articles can cover any topic, as long as you are very passionate about it! The recommended article length is 700-900 words.

If you have an idea for an opinion piece, please contact [email protected] with a brief description of the focus of the article.

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