Latest China
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Pilger: Australia beckons a war with China
Australia is sleep-walking into a confrontation with China. Wars can...
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Bond: BRICS Dashing Green-Developmental Hopes?
Will the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) bloc ever really challenge the...
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Cole: Sorry, Trump, China’s cut-back on Coal Dooms Industry
Donald Trump has said many foolish things, but his pledge...
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Klare: America Third: Donald Trump Is Giving the Phrase “Multipolar World” New Meaning
For all his talk of placing America’s interests first, Donald Trump appears to be advancing the interests of China and Russia
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Menon: Is President Trump Headed for a War with China?
All Options Are “On The Table”
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Swanson: Does Rachel Maddow Want Russia Bombed?
If the point is just to document corruption by Trump, why reach and stretch for a speculative possibility, when you've got a solid case sitting in your lap?
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Hallinan: Blundering Into A War With China
Nonetheless, such a clash would be catastrophic. It would torpedo global trade, inflict trillions of dollars damage on each side, and the odds are distressingly high that the war could go nuclear
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Wallerstein: China and the United States: Partners?
The United States dreams of reproducing a Yalta-like arrangement with China
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Bond: Will Washington’s new pro-Moscow, anti-Beijing gang drive a wedge through the BRICS in 2017?
Many societies’ resistance politics reflects a much broader, deeper capacity to link up than ever before: within the BRICS, the US and internationally
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Cole: The Chinese Solar Juggernaut that Trump Can’t Stop
So if you look out at the big world, where 78% of global GDP is produced, you’d have to be very bullish on solar and very bearish on Trump, Tillerson and his other grimy fossil-fuel fossils
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Wallerstein: China is Confident: How Realistic?
Every country has mixed feelings about its future, but some...
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Escobar: “America has lost” in the Philippines
What Duterte is gaming at is pure realpolitik; if he prevails, he will be able to deftly play the US against China to the benefit of Filipino interests
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Bond: BRICS fantasies and unintended revelations: The wages of sub-imperial assimilation
With men at the BRICS helm like Serra and his president Michel Temer (who is also corrupt and widely despised), so too has the bloc become damaged goods
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McGovern: Russian Throws Down the Gauntlet: Fly at Your Own Risk
If Russia finds itself in a major escalation of hostilities in the Middle East and/or Europe, the troubles may not end there
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Escobar: Why the New Silk Roads terrify Washington
US global hegemony must always be perceived as an irremovable force of nature, like death and taxes
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The joint military manoeuvres between the Russian and Chinese navies, armies, and air forces has kicked off. It’s a clear message for Washington
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Klare: Sleepwalking into a big war
The major powers are planning for war and claim that’s the best way to defend against war. Will this mutual hawkishness lead to armed conflict?
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Hallinan: Dangerous Seas: China & The U.S.
Simple demographics are shifting the balance of economic and political power from Europe and the U.S. to Asia
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Han: Fixing Hong Kong begins with fixing homes
Doing this week after week requires not just commitment, but also a firm belief that things are changing, even if the result is not immediately visible
ZMag 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...
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Pilisuk: Behind the Repression in Burma
Neither the dissent in Burma nor its repression comes as...
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Herman: Nuggets from a Nuthouse Elections, non-intervention, rule of law, and China
T he U.S. establishment takes a “pragmatic” view of the...
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Street: Bedtime Stories for the Bewildered Herd
T he standard power-worshipping position and consent-manufacturing role of the...
China Video
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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...
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Panitch: China, Japan and the U.S.
Moderated by Leo Pantich. Presentations by: R. Taggart Murphy, Graduate...
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...
