scholarly journals Energy Cooperation between the EAEU and China

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Angelina V. Govorova
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
Silk Road Economic Belt ◽  
The One ◽  
Large Scale Project

In May 2018, the Eurasian economic union (EAEU) and China signed a non-preferential agreement on trade and economic cooperation. The agreement provides for joint projects in many economics sectors. For China, this agreement is a new step in the implementation of the large – scale project «One belt-one road», as well as an attempt to approach the creation of a free trade zone in the SCO countries. For the EAEU, the trade agreement with China is an attempt to establish its own game rules in the process of pairing the EAEU and the Silk road economic belt. Attracting investment from China will allow the EAEU countries to develop large transport and energy projects, because China is still one of the world leaders in energy consumption. However it is important to bear in mind that China faces two important energy challenges: on the one hand, the necessity of transition from coal to natural gas, and, on the other hand, the necessity of transition from fossil to renewable energy sources. The analysis of the current agreements shows China's interest in the EAEU countries only from a logistical point of view, which means the need for the EAEU countries to create a unique proposal for the supply of energy resources to China.

Poststructuralist Deconstruction of Meaning as a Challenge to the Discourse of Theism

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Janusz Salamon
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
The One ◽  
Large Scale Project

Although it became customary to warn against confusing postmodernism with deconstructionism (deconstructionism having narrower focus), it seems plausible to suggest that their central agendas are not dissimilar. Moreover, from the philosophical point of view, it is the idea of the 'deconstruction of meaning' that can be said to constitute the foundation of postmodernism understood here as an intellectual movement. It is true that grounded in the  poststructuralist language analysis, deconstructionism seeks primarily to challenge the attempts inherent in the Western philosophical tradition to establish ultimate meaning in a text. However, as one might have anticipated, the deconstruction of meaning of texts (especially philosophical texts) provided a basis for a large scale project leading to deconstruction of all 'truths', as conceived in the mainstream philosophical tradition. And it did it by questioning the coherence of the very concept of 'truth'. Eclectic as postmodernism is, it can be recognized by the fundamental assumption (with a clearly deconstructionist overtones) that there is no common denominator (like 'nature', 'truth' or 'God') that guarantees the one-ness of the world, or the possibility of objective or neutral thought. This assumption would suffice to make one expect that postmodernism will challenge the very foundations of any metaphysical or religious system of beliefs. And so it does. In this paper I would like to ellucidate just one way this challange may be construed, poiting to the example of Don Cupitt, the leading exponent of the 'antirealist' critique of the discourse of theism.

scholarly journals China in Africa: Neo-Colonial Power or “Win-Win” Strategy?

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 119-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. L. Deych
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
The One

The article deals with China’s policy in Africa in the last decade. As the analysis shows, China is increasing steadily its presence in Africa, not only in the countries rich in resources, although the resources, especially oil, remain of particular importance for the Chinese economy, but also in the poor in natural resources and little attractive from the strategic point of view states. The author analyzes the features of China’s diplomacy on the continent, China-Africa trade relations, the activities of Beijing as a donor and investor in Africa. Special attention is paid to “One belt – one road” initiative, which takes the important place in today’s China strategy, and to role, which African countries, located on the crossroads of the land and sea “silk roads”, play in this initiative. The Chinese strategy envisages the implementation of infrastructure projects, including the construction of railways and highways, aviation communications, energy projects, industrial parks, and construction of seaports in coastal countries. The growth of Beijing’s investments in African economy and the expansion of the spheres of its influence on the continent are the subjects of close attention of politicians, scientists and media. On the one hand, they link with China’s policy the economic growth of African countries, some of which have entered into the ranks of the fastest growing states of the world. On the other hand, they accuse Beijing in “neo-colonial policy”, claiming that China is guided by its own interests, far from the African interests, and violates human rights and environmental standards in struggle for resources. The author concludes that an objective analysis of the various aspects of Beijing’s activities in Africa in the last decade, as well as the assessment of this activity by Africans in the course of interviews, may allow to establish the truth.

The Study of Intellectual Property Protection System

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Ping Zhou ◽  
Dongjuan Lv ◽  
Ying Chen
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
National Development ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Strategic Coordination ◽  
Silk Road Economic Belt ◽  
The One

The “One Belt One Road” strategy is the abbreviation of “Silk Road Economic Belt” and “21st Century Maritime Silk Road.” In September and October of 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to build the cooperation initiative of “New Silk Road Economic Belt” and “The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.” President Xi Jinping projected to establish the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” during his visit in Indonesia in October 2013. Finally, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce cooperatively issued the “Vision and Action for Promoting the Construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road” on March 28, 2015. The “One Belt One Road” countries were key areas of cooperation in the context of China's policy in communication, road connectivity, smooth trade, currency circulation, people's mutual understanding, strategic coordination to strengthen bilateral and multilateral teamwork, and corresponding development.

Structural design of Revolving Entrance Doors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Siebert ◽  
Andreas Haese
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Glass Structure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
Electrical Safety ◽  
Earthquake Loads ◽  
Revolving Doors ◽  
Legal Situation ◽  
The One

<p>Revolving entrance doors - usually built as some kind of all glass structure - are part of many publicly accessible buildings. As the architectural demands rise regarding transparency and slenderness of façade members, the entrance doors have to and do go along with these demands. But even if the façade is designed carefully and verified according all relevant standards, the revolving doors are usually considered as a machine, coming with some certificate. This point of view is mostly shared by the manufacturer and the basis for the call for proposals. The certificates provided by the door manufacturer considers the electrical safety, the safety aspects for people handling and using the doors regarding the risk of persons being jammed or hit by the turning door leaves, but not the structural safety of the door system in means of resistance to live, dead, wind or earthquake loads. If we look at the design and verification effort made for standard façade elements, even windows on the one hand, and the different failure consequences for windows and revolving doors on the other hand, it becomes obvious that especially to non-standard and large-scale doors should be paid some attention regarding its structural safety. Below the legal situation of revolving doors is considered in the European context and two quite different examples of revolving doors are discussed regarding their structural assessment.</p>

scholarly journals The Security Challenges of the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative and China’s Choices

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (78) ◽  
pp. 129-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Haiquan
Keyword(s):  
Open Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Silk Road Economic Belt ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Turmoil

Abstract The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiatives (“One Belt, One Road”) are of significance in enhancing China’s open economy. This article explores the dual security challenges faced by the “One Belt, One Road” initiative. These challenges include both traditional security challenges, such as great power competition, territorial and island disputes, and political turmoil in the region, as well as non-traditional threats such as terrorism, piracy, and transnational organized crime. This article analyzes the present situation of security cooperation in the region covered by “One Belt, One Road” and also suggests that China needs to pay special attention to three issues, namely the supply of public security goods, the interests of the United States and Russia, and the pivot of Pakistan, besides developing its own strength.

scholarly journals P. Kulish's "Ukraine" and folk dumas: linguistic and poetic analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-104
Author(s):  
Juliya Dyadyshcheva-Rosovetska
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Verbal Creativity ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
The Witch ◽  
The One ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Selection Of

The article is devoted to the study of Panteleimon Kulish's search for a productive model of development of the new Ukrainian literary language and ways of its enrichment, in particular at the expense of the language of folklore as an inexhaustible source. A linguistic and poetic analysis of Panteleimon Kulish's large-scale work "Ukraine: From the Beginning of Ukraine to Khmelnytsky's Father" and its comparison with some elements of the linguopoetics of folk dumas of the classical repertoire are presented. The real problems that arise in P. Kulish’s creative work when he tries to achieve a harmonious combination of authentic folk thought words and expressions and stylized author's innovations are demonstrated. The article shows the difficulties in the artist's selection of colored ethnographically linguistic material needed to create a folklore duma's color. The shortcomings of combining the author's elements with fragments of real dumas within one work of art are revealed. This technique is compared with the approach of Taras Shevchenko, who turned to "stylization" or "improvisation" in the folk spirit (M. Kotsyubynska) and isolated the resulting structures structurally, putting in the mouths of certain characters - the Blind or the Witch. The fundamental difference in the approaches to verbal creativity is differentiated on the one hand by the bearer of the oral-poetic tradition, which is only within the possibilities of Ukrainian folklore, and on the other - by the artist of the XIX century - its user, who perceives the folklore tradition not "from within" but "from outside" and addresses the entire literary heritage - domestic and world, as well as folklore - his own and other peoples. The counterproductiveness of some authorial experiments of P. Kulish on dumas samples is illustrated. Their results cannot be considered satisfactory due to illogicality, low intellectual saturation or from an aesthetic point of view. A somewhat excessive exoticism of the author's innovations has been recorded, which attracts the reader's undue attention to them and distorts his perception of the artistic fabric of the poetic work. The question of the specifics of the experimental text of P. Kulish is formulated. What prevails here is the scientific reconstruction of lost fragments of true dumas, the restoration of time-destroyed parts of the national epic, or the demonstration of the author's creative ability to practice folklore improvisation in a work of art. Depending on the answers, a comprehensive assessment can be made.

scholarly journals EURASIA ENTRE EL ESPÍRITU DE SHANGHÁI Y UNA COMUNIDAD DE FUTURO COMPARTIDO

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunamis Fabelo Concepción
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Shanghai Cooperation Organization ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Road Project ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
The One ◽  
Central Asian Republics

The article is based on the analysis of the integrationist trends that have evolved in Central Asia between 1991 and 2015. It deals with how the historical reality of the Central Asian republics conditioned them to search for centers of reference to guide the construction of their political and economic systems. This situation caused these countries, since their independence, to begin to interact with important international relations players, with whom they built a series of interdependent relations that were tracing two integrationist conceptions that became trends: Western and Eurasian. The latter one is the one that has most advanced in the period studied, promoted by Russia and China with the implementation of important mechanisms of association, cooperation and consensus, among which the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Union and the New Silk Road project. In this sense, the Chinese megaproject One Belt One Road is supported by a series of conceptual bases as a result of the progress and evolution of the Eurasian trend understood in its broader meaning.

Mechanism for the settlement of commercial disputes within the framework of conjugation of the EEU and the Chinese initiative ‘One Belt, One Road’

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
JIANG SIYUAN ◽  
◽  
GAN ZHONGYANG ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Silk Road Economic Belt ◽  
Development Concept ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Silk Road ◽  
Commercial Disputes

The process of integrating the Chinese initiative ‘One Belt, One Road’ and the EEU development concept has entered a new stage – the transition from project cooperation to systematization. The creation of an inter-regional mechanism for the settlement of commercial disputes is an urgent need to resolve disagreements in the field of trade, as well as an important guarantee of the further development of trade and economic cooperation and coordinated interaction of countries. The article gives recommendations on the creation of a mechanism for the settlement of commercial disputes within the framework of interfacing the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Silk Road Economic Belt.

Self-Organized Criticality and Homeostasis in Atmospheric Convective Organization

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (12) ◽  
pp. 3449-3462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun-Ichi Yano ◽  
Changhai Liu ◽  
Mitchell W. Moncrieff
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Precipitation Rate ◽  
Regulation Mechanism ◽  
Scale Invariant ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Cloud Resolving Model ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
The One

Abstract Atmospheric convection has a tendency to organize on a hierarchy of scales ranging from the mesoscale to the planetary scales, with the latter especially manifested by the Madden–Julian oscillation. The present paper examines two major competing mechanisms of self-organization in a cloud-resolving model (CRM) simulation from a phenomenological thermodynamic point of view. The first mechanism is self-organized criticality. A saturation tendency of precipitation rate with increasing column-integrated water, reminiscent of critical phenomena, indicates self-organized criticality. The second is a self-regulation mechanism that is known as homeostasis in biology. A thermodynamic argument suggests that such self-regulation maintains the column-integrated water below a threshold by increasing the precipitation rate. Previous analyses of both observational data as well as CRM experiments give mixed results. In this study, a CRM experiment over a large-scale domain with a constant sea surface temperature is analyzed. This analysis shows that the relation between the column-integrated total water and precipitation suggests self-organized criticality, whereas the one between the column-integrated water vapor and precipitation suggests homeostasis. The concurrent presence of these two mechanisms is further elaborated by detailed statistical and budget analyses. These statistics are scale invariant, reflecting a spatial scaling of precipitation processes.

scholarly journals Techno-Economic Analysis of Power-to-Heat Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 03003
Author(s):  
Alberto Vannoni ◽  
Alessandro Sorce ◽  
Alberto Traverso ◽  
Aristide Fausto Massardo
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Heat Pumps ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Thermal Source ◽  
Economic Point

The heating and cooling sector, responsible for a large fraction of greenhouse emissions, may have a large scale impact on the energy system evolution contributing to smart industrial and domestic electrification; at the same time the recent increase of renewable energy sources installation, posing a threat in terms of grid stability, makes available a considerable amount of clean and cheap electrical energy during peak hours production. Power to heat technologies constitute a promising solution to face both these issues reducing the electric demand variability and decarbonizing the heat production. Large vapor compression heat pumps are a reliable technology able to compete, under the economic point of view, with the heat-only-boilers in order to serve district heating networks. Performance and economic profitability of a compression cycle is strongly dependent on available thermal source and the temperature of water delivered to the network. The present work explores and compares performance and economic indicators under different installation conditions, considering compression heat pumps employing four different fluids: a traditional HCF (R134a) and three natural fluids, ammonia (R717), butane (R600), and propane (R290), often preferred nowadays to HCFs due to the lower global warming potential.

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