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Benjamin: What Planet Is NATO Living On?
Only 17% of Europeans want closer economic ties with the United States, while even fewer, 10% of French and Germans, think their countries need America’s help with their national defense.
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Porter: US accusation of “genocide” by China based on claims by far-right ideologue
The Trump and Biden administrations have relied on the work of a right-wing religious extremist, Adrian Zenz, for their “genocide” accusation against China. A close review of Zenz’s research reveals flagrant data abuse and outright falsehoods
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Hvistendahl: How Oracle Sells Repression in China
In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work
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Prashad: The complex politics, geopolitics of the Myanmar coup
The 'new cold war' between the US and China has deepened the instability that has marked Myanmar’s history since 1962
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Hallinan: China’s Sea of Conflict
China doesn’t want to rule the world, but it does want to be the dominant power in its region, and it wants to sell a lot of stuff
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Klare: President Biden’s China Conundrum
Can He Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War?
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Macfarlane: Why 2021 is make-or-break on our climate crisis, and Biden-Xi Cooperation is Crucial
COVID-19 and climate change are two sides of the same coin. To overcome both we must confront their root cause: an economic system that is killing the planet
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Haiphong: US fearmongering on China not rooted in facts, but racism
Bipartisan mistrust of the world’s emerging economic superpower rooted largely in bigoted tropes and stereotypes
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Baker: China, Christmas, and the Coronavirus
We lost an opportunity to have worldwide cooperation in the development of vaccines, bringing in not only Europe, but China
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Chow: Post-Election Reflections on Sinophobia in U.S. Politics
The last 12 months have seen a sharp rise in anti-China sentiment and, consequently, anti-Asian racism
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Stimpson: A Washington Echo Chamber for a New Cold War
A Rising China Lifts All Boats (Submarines, Aircraft Carriers, and Surface Ships), Not to Speak of Fighter Planes, in the Military-Industrial Complex
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Gurtov: In Defense of Confucius Institutes
What the administration is doing, in our name, is cutting off our nose to spite our face—denying communities, schools, and laboratories the opportunities for cultural enrichment
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Cole: Russia tells Trump to Jump in Lake
Commits 80,000 Personnel to War drill alongside Iran, China
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Cavanagh: Trump trade wars have led to lost US jobs and factories
Trump is making false claims about his record in struggling states like Ohio and Michigan. The jobs haven't come back. They've been offshored to China
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Interview on the development of the protest movement in his place of birth over the past two decades, setting them within the context of broader political trends in mainland China and beyond
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Prashad: The Difference Between the U.S. and China’s Response to COVID-19 Is Staggering
The Chinese government remains vigilant and is willing to sacrifice short-term economic growth to save the lives of its citizenry
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Baker: The U.S., China, and the New Cold Warriors
The U.S.-China confrontation is a game for the elites. The rest of us would be best served by sitting this one out
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Falk: Nuclear Complacency and the Dangerous Drift Toward a New Cold War with China
For relations among states having nuclear weaponry, stability is achieved by relying on various forms of deterrence combined with the implementation of the nuclear apartheid regime
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Rasmus: 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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Rasmus: 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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Rasmus: Trump’s Phony Trade War
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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Wallerstein: 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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Herman: Trans-Pacific Partnership versus Equality and Democracy
The TPP would encourage further out-sourcing and job and tax revenue loss, a further weakening of labor’s bargaining power, windfalls for the wealthy from enhanced copyright and patent protection, along with reduced government revenue for social spending
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When protests in Hong Kong exploded people looked for U.S. involvement. It was not hard to find.
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Frank: Exploiting the U.S. West to Feed China’s Appetite for Coal
Coal production is becoming increasingly unpopular in the United States....
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Davies: The U.S. Military Budget & the Threat to China
Last January, Carl Conetta of the Commonwealth Institute's Project for...
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Grumiau: Hong Kong: Women Workers in the Economic Crisis
Under the heading “Decent Work, Decent Life for Women,” the...
China Video
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Prashad: 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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Pilger: The Coming War On China
Interview on a new documentary “The Coming War On China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III
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Discussing the recent BRICS conference and the proposal to create a new development bank
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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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Li: Will Chinese Workers Challenge Global Capitalism?
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Hi. I’m Paul Jay, for...
China Blogs
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Kwint: 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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Tripathi: Battle Over Energy Resources
Mondoweiss The brinkmanship between the West and Iran over Tehran’s...
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Tripathi: 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...
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Mauldin: Himalayan Concensus – Spiritual Revolution
Himalayan Consensus Written by Laurence Brahm – Published by laurencebrahm.com...
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Cat: Migrant Worker Suicide – China
04/03/2009 14:58 CHINA Migrant worker blows himself up because he...
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Ganapathiraju: Study: “Rich Countries’ Invisible Emissionsâ€
Study: “Rich Countries’ Invisible Emissions” Much of China’s increase in...
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Cat: Violent unrest rocks China as crisis hits
Violent unrest rocks China as crisis hits The collapse of...
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