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Paul Krugman, China, mRNA Vaccines, and Right-Wing Populism
It is striking that so many people are anxious to wrongly blame the costs of China’s zero COVID-19 policy on its rejection of US-made mRNA vaccines
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A No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine Could Unleash Untold Violence
Superpower contempt for the international legal framework is so common as to pass almost unnoticed
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War in Ukraine: Some Questions And Answers
Politics are complicated, but for anything to get better we need a peace negotiation that can stop this war and enable us to build a better world from there
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Fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in China
Qiuyan Chen sued the Chinese ministry of education over homophobic textbooks. She writes about her battle for LGBTQ+ rights in China and the UK
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Western leftists must avoid short-sighted or ignorant support for the Chinese Communist Party, which is a far cry from a socialist regime
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A look at what lies behind China’s recent economic policy pronouncements – and to what extent they can be considered to be progressive
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Destroying Democracy: China in Hong Kong
The new face of Hong Kong is direct Chinese intervention
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Is Biden Risking War by Pushing Taiwan Independence?
With Biden increasingly treating Taiwan as an independent country, is he provoking a military response from China that could go nuclear?
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US-China Cooperation Is Essential to Avert a New Cold War
The main lesson from the Cold War era is that it’s a virtual miracle that we have survived
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US Cold War with China — first stop, Equatorial Guinea
Right out of the playbook: hype the threat of a potential Chinese naval base facing the Atlantic, get more funding for military operations
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Western Militaries on the Doorsteps of Russia and China
Wild-eyed speculation about the Kremlin’s intentions has so far run aground on Russia’s apparent reluctance to engage in a shooting war that could spiral into a full-on nuclear holocaust
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Chinese Fossil Fuel Investments in Africa
African countries need investments, China needs raw materials, and African activists are fed up with the resulting corruption and environmental damage
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Combatting Global Warming: The Solution to China’s Demographic “Crisis”
If China wants a path through its “demographic crisis,” or, in other words, coping with secular stagnation, devoting substantial resources towards greening its economy would be a great path forward
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The AUKUS Alliance Takes the World to the Brink
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Why Doesn’t Congress Oppose Biden’s “New Cold War”?
There has been almost no “meaningful dissent among Democrats” in Congress about “the need to make sure that we don’t let this beast run out of control.”
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The west can’t engage China on the climate while also demonizing them
Despite all the apocalyptic predictions of climate catastrophe, the moment when these countries really believe that they face an existential threat has yet to arrive
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U.S. pushes China tensions to the brink with new moves on Taiwan secession
War only benefits Wall Street and the weapons manufacturers who cash in on death and destruction. The working class should resist the drive to war and the propaganda offensive launched by the corporate media
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China’s winding road toward capitalism
A look at The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)evolution since 1949, by Ralf Ruckus
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Milley, China and the Danger of Nuclear War
Gen. Milley’s call to China may have prevented a near catastrophe, as happened in 1983 when the Soviet Union believed Reagan had gone mad and planned a first strike
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The US and China: A Productive Path Forward
The Biden administration, with the overwhelming support of the foreign policy establishment, seems determined to start a new Cold War with China
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Milley, China and the Danger of Nuclear War
Gen. Milley’s call to China may have prevented a near catastrophe, as happened in 1983 when the Soviet Union believed Reagan had gone mad and planned a first strike
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U.S. vs. China: From Tariff War to Economic War
Nextgen technology development is at the core of that restructuring and restoration of U.S. hegemony. Trump is just the appearance, the historic vehicle, behind the deeper global capitalist transformation in progress
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Trade War for Real? Parts 2, 3
How China will respond to more U.S. tariffs and technology transfer is the crux of any U.S.-China trade agreement—or trade war
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Is the Trump phony trade war really about reducing the U.S. $375 billion annual trade deficit with China? Or about U.S. bankers wanting more access and ownership of operations in China?
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OBOR is not the name of an ancient king or kingdom, but it does resonate with an ambition imperial in its scope. OBOR—One Belt, One Road—is China’s “new Silk Road” and is spinning a web of connectivity by sea and land across Central Asia and into Europe
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China Is Confident: How Realistic?
If we look at the geopolitical arena, China has counted on being able to insist that other states recognize and implement its “one China” policy. Considering what the global situation was 50 years ago, China has done exceptionally well in this regard.
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Trump’s ‘America First’ a Defensive Strategy
Trump's "America First" Security Strategy is a defensive response to old rivals China and Russia reasserting their position in the world
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Interview on a new documentary “The Coming War On China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III
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Paul French: North Korea, the last Stalinist state
Paul French, author of "Oil on Water: Tanks, Pirates and...
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Will Chinese Workers Challenge Global Capitalism?
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Hi. I’m Paul Jay, for...
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A look at China’s efforts since 2010 to tame its foreign ‘shadow banks’ that have been playing a central role in creating financial bubbles in its residential housing, local infrastructure, and currency markets
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Rasmus continues his analysis of the growing influence and instability in the global shadow banking system, including a look at the major role being played by shadow banks in China today
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China’s Slowing Economy and Rising Financial Instability
A talk on the reasons why China’s economy is slowing, and its potential impacts on emerging markets, Europe, and the rest of the global economy
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International Noise Conspiracy Interview
In May 2006, major label recording artists and radical leftists...
Blogs
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Revolutionary voices: Suki Chan’s A Hundred Seas Rising
See my review in Asian Art News (September/October 2012) here, and...
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On Exceptionalism and Deviance
Journal of Foreign Relations The Wall Street Journal recently carried...
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Ballot Box China – Internation Affairs Forum
As part of Politics Week at Leeds Metropolitan University, the...
Books
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The Rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions
About the Book In recent years, China and India have...
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Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State
About the Book Since 1988, China has undergone one of...
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A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion...
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2009 April 9 by Mike Marqusee CONTENDING FOR THE...
