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20 Apr 2024, 6:37 pm
Where Western companies moved slowly toward agreements, sought externalfinancing, and had extensive regulations that governed everything from environmental protectionto anti-corruption statutes, Chinese companies were one-stop shops in league with thegovernment, they were happy to build things quickly if not always well, and they were open tothe costs of doing business in an environment with extensive patronage networks. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 8:31 am
One example is the critical minerals agreement that the United States has begun to negotiate with Japan and other countries, as well as the European Union: in the coming years, the United States will face a staggering increase in demand to support the clean energy transition; mineral-producing countries seek greater access to the U.S. market. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 8:31 am
One example is the critical minerals agreement that the United States has begun to negotiate with Japan and other countries, as well as the European Union: in the coming years, the United States will face a staggering increase in demand to support the clean energy transition; mineral-producing countries seek greater access to the U.S. market. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 6:06 am
DFC’s investments have given the U.S. government an interest in critical minerals mining and processing as well as telecom infrastructure upgrades and development, toll roads, and other areas that displaced Chinese funding. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 5:16 am
There have also been reports that the Taliban are in talks with a PRC state-owned mining company, Jiangxi Copper, to develop the Mes Aynak copper mine in Logar province, which is estimated to house the world’s second-largest deposit of copper. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 3:58 am
Supply chains between China and the United States remain at great risk of being disrupted (again) in the near future. [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 6:33 pm
But that provides a weapon to the great enemy of the Cuban state--the Americans. [read post]
28 Sep 2022, 3:58 am
These are the Chinese companies that are not Western managed, not Taiwanese, not Singaporean, and not international firms. [read post]
11 Feb 2022, 3:58 am
The Confucius Institute may be booted out of Western campuses, but students in many countries will welcome the chance to learn the language of their greatest trading partner. [read post]
3 Dec 2021, 8:19 am
At the core of the challenge are the great contemporary battles around the parameters and functioning of the state system that emerged in its current form after 1945 (Henkin 1995). [read post]
2 Jul 2021, 11:47 am
China Presses Ahead With Cryptocurrency Mining Bans China’s Sichuan province, a haven for bitcoin miners, has banned the energy-intensive practice of bitcoin mining weeks after another province, Inner Mongolia, did the same. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 6:00 am
Lacking law enforcement capacities in rural spaces and forest areas where militant and criminal groups operate, they may instead be highly susceptible to powerful internal vested interests encouraging deforestation, such as powerful logging and mining industries, and to external actors, such as China and Chinese traders, seeking primary commodities such as timber, minerals, and wildlife. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 7:32 pm
The resulting policy and regulatory misalignments have created one of the great challenges for any global human rights (and now sustainability) project focused on the management of economic activity (Aguirre 2004). [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 8:03 am
” (emphasis added) The project is, in my view, a great deception for several reasons. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 1:01 am
Company officials ignored these signs as well as direct warnings from the union. [read post]
5 Jun 2019, 11:41 am
” Western companies may soon catch a glimpse into how the Chinese government treats “unreliable entities. [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 7:00 pm
While often referred to as the human rights due diligence process, in reality it involves a bundle of interrelated processes, which should include the following four core components:4 (a) Identifying and assessing actual or potential adverse human rights impacts that the business enterprise may cause or contribute to through its own activities, or which may be directly linked to its operations, products or services by its business relationships; (b) Integrating findings from impact assessments… [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 8:38 pm
That stalemate was famously memorialized in the great academic debates of mid-century and the grudging legalization of a small element of the field. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 3:25 am
So there were "miner's districts" in the mining regions, "claims clubs" in farming areas, and "town companies" in Denver and elsewhere. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 7:31 am
The obvious issue what that it was highly toxic, but the companies took great steps to keep this information from the general public and even government regulators to the extent they existed at that time. [read post]
