Opinion: Biden heads to Southeast Asia next week, but his itinerary is ‘exactly backward’

[ad_1] When President Biden visits Vietnam after his stop at the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi this month, he is expected to upgrade our two nations’ bilateral relationship to a “strategic partnership.” The shift will mark a significant turning for both countries. But it should not come at the cost of skipping the summit of the Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations around the same time in Indonesia. Biden’s choice to go to Hanoi…

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[ad_1] GNPower Dinginin is one of the Philippines’s newest and biggest coal-fired power plants. The $1.7bn facility is located in Bataan, on the island Luzon. Construction began in 2016 and it was launched commercially late last year. Plans are underway for a second 668 megawatt unit to increase the total capacity to 1,336 Megawatts. Like other coal plants in the Philippines, GNPower Dinginin materialised years before President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration banned new coal projects in…

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