Latest China

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  Wolff: The United States Underestimates China’s Economic Challenge at Its Own Peril

  Ratcheting up demonizations of China seems a poor and likely counterproductive response
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  Klare: On the Brink in 2026

  U.S.-China Near-War Status Report
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  Yi: Shanghai leads way in China’s carbon transition

  Many Chinese cities and provinces are working on plans to hit peak carbon before 2030. Shanghai, China’s most developed city, is set to lead the way
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  Bello: The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party

  The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation
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  Prashad: China Pulls Itself Out of Poverty 100 Years Into Its Revolution

  By 2025, China will become a “high-income” economy by World Bank international standards
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  Prashad: Civil War in Afghanistan Will Threaten Afghanistan, China and Pakistan

  There are two forms of war that exist in Afghanistan.
• Hvistendahl: I Visited a Chinese Lab at the Center of a Biosafety Debate

  What I Learned Helps Explain the Clash Over Covid-19’s Origins
• Chan: State–labor relations and the emergence of grassroots workers’ organizations in China

  Labor organizers coached workers to take individual actions, rather than collective protests, to make their urgent appeals
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  Feffer: Building the World Back Better?

  Instead of consigning China to the doghouse, why not create one big Green reconstruction team?
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  Sanders: Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China

  Don’t Start Another Cold War
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  Baker: Biden, China, and the New Cold War

  Many people don’t seem to realize the absurdity of trying to spend China into the ground, as some would claim we did with the Soviet Union
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  Bello: Osama’s Ghost: The Economics of Overextension

  Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation
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  Engelhardt: A World at the Edge

  What Planet Will Our Children and Grandchildren Inherit?
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  Baroud: Free Market Illusions: What is the US’ Endgame in China?

  Why does the US advocate a free market while doing its utmost to stifle it? The current US-China economic war is a perfect example of this perplexing question
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  Benjamin: Schumer’s Anti-China Bill Sacrifices Climate for Empire

  The bill undermines Kerry's negotiated agreement with China, sabotaging an opportunity for the U.S. and China to partner on curbing emissions and sharing strategies for greening the Earth
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  Porter: Eisenhower rejected military chiefs’ demand for nuclear war on China

  Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg has released a shocking account showing how the Joint Chiefs pressed Eisenhower to launch a nuclear war on China
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  Cook: Was there a Wuhan lab leak?

  An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception
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  Schwarz: Why Now Was the Right Time to Release Top-Secret File on Nuclear Weapons

  The document about a 1958 crisis shows officials eagerly making the case for atomic warfare against China
• Hvistendahl: Oracle Boasted That Its Software Was Used Against U.S. Protesters

  To sell the CIA-backed Endeca software for use by Chinese authorities, Oracle touted its use in Chicago for predictive policing
• Byler: From Xinjiang to Mississippi: Terror Capitalism, Labour and Surveillance

  In both Xinjiang and elsewhere, the labour of populations controlled by surveillance infrastructure is devalued and becomes a source of heightened exploitation