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for visiting Taiwan.Moves like these mirror efforts China has made against governments elsewhere in the past.

, for example, after the northern European country allowed Taiwan to open a trade office.But experts say the pressure against the IPAC members is unusual. Lina Benabdallah, a professor at Wake Forest University who studies China’s relations with Africa, said she has never heard of China using direct coercion against African parliamentarians before.“This is very new to me,” Benabdallah said.

Zimbabwe lawmaker and IPAC member Daniel Molokele said he expects to see morefrom Beijing, especially as the Trump administration pulls back from Africa.

“I expect China to benefit,” Molokele said. “It will definitely use this opportunity to grow its influence in Africa.”

Abdoulie John in Serrekunda, Gambia, and Gerald Imray in Cape Town, South Africa, contributed to this report.Whether it’s pollution or a silver bullet that will save the planet may depend on whom you ask.

From shore, a pipe releases a mixture of water and magnesium oxide — a powdery white mineral used in everything from construction to heartburn pills that Planetary Technologies, based in Nova Scotia, is betting will absorb more planet-warming gases into the sea.“Restore the climate. Heal the ocean,” reads the motto stamped on a shipping container nearby.

A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans. (AP Production/ Serginho Roosblad)Planetary is part of a growing industry racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans. It is backed by $1 million from