On 15 June 2026, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), alongside the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), and the National Energy Administration (NEA), issued the Notice on Launching a Three-Year Action on…
Executive summary In March 2026, during the so called “Two Sessions”, China agreed on its 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP) (the draft had been circulated since October 2025) as a follow up to the 14th FYP (for a comparison of the major targets between the 14th FYP and 15th FYP, see…
Key findings The first half of 2025, or “2025 H1” saw the highest BRI engagement ever for any 6-month period, with USD 66.2 billion in construction contracts and about USD 57.1 billion in investments;China’s energy related engagement in 2025 were the highest in any period since the BRI’s inceptionreaching USD42…
On May 15, 2023, the Vietnamese government released Vietnam’s Eight Power Development Plan (PDP8) for the period of 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050. The release was severely delayed due to disagreements in the authorities regarding the country’s future power mix, particularly the pace of the phase down of coal-fired…
On September 21, 2020, the aerospace giant Airbus announced concept designs for “ZEROe”, a zero-emission, hydrogen-powered airplane that would enter service by 2035. While it might be difficult to imagine traveling on a hydrogen-powered plane, hydrogen as a fuel is not new: liquid hydrogen has served as a rocket propellant…