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Baker: Going with Patent Holders Against Workers
Trump seems to have made the concerns of companies like Boeing, who want more help maintaining their control over technology, his top priority
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Pilger: New Cold War & looming threats
Interview on U.S.’ aggression in the Asia-Pacific region and the decline of its global dominance and says that a “new Cold War beckons isolation for the U.S. and danger for the rest of us”
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Baker: Trump’s Tariffs a Tax on the US Middle Class
Donald Trump’s trade war with China will mean more money for shareholders and fewer US jobs in manufacturing. This is not a good story for the country’s workers
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McCoy: Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump
“America First” Versus China’s Strategy of the Four Continents
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Bond: BRICS-Johannesburg simultaneously disappoints and threatens
With Trump setting the agenda on the building and destruction of political alliances between states while wrecking prospects of multilateral action, the world requires a new generation of international leaders to develop a genuine alternative
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Rasmus: Will Trump’s Trade War Precipitate a Currency War?
Trump is betting his intimidation approach can produce quick results before his tariff war precipitates a currency war and a severe global economic contraction
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Klare: Entering a 1984 World, Trump-Style
Or Implementing the Sino-Russian Blueprint for a Tripolar World Order
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Bello: China’s Bigger Economic Threat
America should worry less about China's economic success and more about a potential Chinese financial implosion
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Baker: Protecting Pfizer and Microsoft
We can do better than extending a relic of the feudal guild system
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Wengraf: The new imperial scramble for Africa
The rush for profits, economic volatility and militarization across Africa promises only instability, rising exploitation and violence
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Rasmus: Is the US-China Trade War for Real?
The US trade offensive targeting China was set in motion at least a year ago, in spring 2017. It surfaced last August 2017
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Rasmus: Trump’s Phony Trade War
What’s going on with Trump’s trade offensive? There’s a dual track policy underway: One a phony trade war with US allies; the other a potential (but not yet) trade war with China, that may also in the end prove less than a bonafide ‘trade war’ as well.”
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Hart-Landsberg: What’s Driving Trade Tensions?
U.S. tariff threats are, in reality, a bargaining chip to get the Chinese government to accept stronger protections for the intellectual property rights and technology of leading U.S. firms
ZMag China
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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...
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Pilisuk: Behind the Repression in Burma
Neither the dissent in Burma nor its repression comes as...
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...
