Geopolitics
The Hidden Cost of Progress: How Chinese Investments Fuel Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Global South
Recent mapping by the Global Environmental Justice Atlas reveals that Chinese investments are linked to about 430 socio-environmental conflicts globally, with community resistance successfully suspending projects in one out of four cases. This powerful grassroots defiance exposes the brutal disregard for local sovereignty and environmental justice in the Global South, underscoring the urgent need to challenge neo-colonial extractivism masked as development.
