As Trump retreats from climate goals, China is becoming a green superpower
"The country's leader Xi Jinping told the UN in 2020 that China would aim to hit peak emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. This goal now appears to be within reach with analysts from Carbon Brief saying its CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 21 months."
--- Mainly because of a recession, which it seems nobody wants to see. If the economy gets back on track, then the emissions will grow again. Most probably.
"Beijing has been stepping in to curb the glut. But waste and storage remain big challenges as China's grid, which still relies on coal and thermal power, transitions to absorbing the volume of solar and wind power that is being generated."
--- Many of these new energy projects are not connected to the grid at all. They are just there to show that "we have them".
"Fossil fuels are being pushed out of the mix."
"China is using more power every year and coal was still responsible for generating 58% of that in 2024"
--- And that stayed virtually the same in 2025.
China’s latest AI is so good it’s spooked Hollywood. Will its tech sector pump the brakes?
"In a televised Lunar New Year celebration this week, the country’s latest humanoid robots stole the show by performing martial arts, spin kicks and back flips."
--- That might not have been robots after all. Looks like they were remote controlled toys, just like before.
"One Chinese tech blogger using Seedance 2.0 said it was so advanced that it was able to generate realistic audio of his voice based solely on an image of him"
--- Sounds like bullshit.
s.a.: China’s AI surge — real threat or hype?
China’s Erasure of Ethnic Minority Languages
"International human rights law on the right to education, including equal access to education, protects the right to mother tongue education. The Chinese government is party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which oblige Beijing to provide adequate and truly bilingual education to communities"
--- International agreements, laws and rules? Who cares? We are Chinese.
US intelligence agencies tie Chinese explosive test to push for a completely new nuclear arsenal
Rare US-China standoff in West Sea signals USFK shift to counter Beijing
--- China Uncensored featured the usual weekend news variety again:
China und der US-Dollar: Der große Irrtum
"Wie eine Analyse von Brad Setser zeigt, ist der Rückgang der offiziell gemeldeten Bestände nur bedingt aussagekräftig. Ein erheblicher Teil der US-Dollar-Exposition wurde nicht abgebaut, sondern innerhalb des staatlich dominierten Finanzsystems verlagert, weg von der Bilanz der Zentralbank und hin zu den großen staatlichen Geschäftsbanken.
[...] Ein Blick auf die kumulierten US-Dollar-Zuflüsse nach China unterstreicht diese These. Während die offiziellen Devisenreserven der PBoC seit einigen Jahren stagnieren oder leicht rückläufig sind, steigen die Netto-Auslandsvermögen der staatlichen Banken massiv an. Addiert man die Positionen von Zentralbank und Staatsbanken, ergibt sich seit etwa 2022 eine stark ansteigende Linie, die bis Ende 2025 auf über 4 Billionen US-Dollar klettert. Mit anderen Worten: Das System China akkumuliert weiterhin US-Dollar, nur nicht mehr primär über die offizielle Zentralbankbilanz."
--- China trickst mit Zahlen? Das ist ja ganz was neues.
