The US wants African minerals for its goal of becoming the world’s cleantech superpower, but it cannot compete with Beijing economically on the continent.
Infrastructure
In NSW, Labor is favoured to end the Coalition’s 12 years in office at the forthcoming election. If it wins it faces a formidable task. The task is not merely what Labor says: review toll roads and buses; rebates for motorists; reconsider a few mega projects; deal out electoral bric a brac. It will need Continue reading »
The Riyadh-Tehran rapprochement could bring much-needed infrastructure investment in Iran, which is situated at the center of China and Russian-led Eurasian integration efforts, but countries will have to defy or work around US sanctions.
oth parties are exacerbating the city/country split. How different are their interests?
As higher interest rates and inflation hit developing countries, the IMF is trying to use bailout terms to sideline Beijing.
"I've had fear and now this just put the anxiety over the top," said one local resident.
Post East Palentine rail safety reform proposals are embarrassingly unserious.
The Government’s response to the ‘independent’ review of Infrastructure Australia involves a surprise attack on public policy which should be rebuffed. A grim outlook? Picture this: pork-barrelling encouraged while important projects languish; proponents assessing their own proposals; Premiers trashing the Commonwealth via national cabinet saying it should obey their experts; a Minister facing condemnation by Continue reading »
Rather than settle for narrow reforms, rail workers are pushing for public ownership of the US railroad system, which is commonplace throughout much of the world.
The western sanctions weapon is not new to Syria, but since 2019 it has become a lethal one, destroying entire Syrian sectors and killing its people. First published in The Cradle February 6, 2023 Some 83 years after being employed against Germany in 1940, economic sanctions have become the most widely-used tool in Washington’s arsenal Continue reading »