Tag: energy

China-Russia Friendship: How “Eternal” Is It?

15 March 2022 Recent history is full of seminal events. The two World Wars and America's emergence as a global power, the Russian Revolution, the OPEC oil embargos, Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms (perestroika, glasnot, and detente), the collapse of the Soviet Union (and the end of the Cold War), and Deng Xiaoping's "Opening Up" modernisation all [...]

Climate Change: Bringing Power to the People

3 June 2020 In my last blog Post-Covid: Crucial Decade for Climate Change, I suggested that in the post-Covid period, Climate Change would reassert itself as the most important macro-issue. And, if the world is to have any chance of attaining the objectives of the Paris Climate Accord, dramatic reductions in the level of carbon [...]