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REPORTAGE. Dans les Vosges, Batiactu a pu retracer le chemin du bois à destination du chauffage domestique, depuis les massifs forestiers jusqu'au produit final, en passant par différents sites industriels.

A major announcement emerged from the G20 meeting in South Africa this year: China introduced a global initiative to promote a sustainable “life cycle” for mineral resources. The proposal emphasizes environmentally responsible mining—from extraction to processing to eventual recycling—and promises to ensure that local populations share in the benefits of their natural wealth. Nearly 20 […] The post China’s green mining vision meets Indonesia’s fragile reality appeared first on Asia Times.

As artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human capability, the societies best positioned to steer superintelligence will not be the most technologically advanced but the most culturally prepared. China, with its Confucian-Daoist substrate, meets this criterion better than most. Scaled up, state-coordinated and informed by a living tradition that values long-term collective flourishing, China, together with Confucian […] The post China’s cultural advantage in the AI Age appeared first on Asia Times.

The 2021-2023 inflation surge saw sudden and persistent increases in prices for consumer goods, housing and assets. Wage inflation also rose, but it lagged behind other inflation measures. When wages finally accelerated, the Fed began hiking rates to cool the economy, consistent with its longstanding view of wage inflation as a precursor to spiraling inflation […] The post How wage inflation became the Fed’s regressive red line appeared first on Asia Times.