Latest China

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  Prashad: How China Learned About SARS-CoV-2 in the Weeks Before the Global Pandemic

  In the early weeks when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese government neither suppressed evidence nor did their warning systems fail
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  Naureckas: You Don’t Need to Believe China About China’s Coronavirus Success

  Source: FAIR  Total confirmed cases of Covid-19 by nation (with...
• Wu Yixiu: China must stimulate the economy sustainably after coronavirus

  Government spending should incentivize consumption of public goods and services, not big infrastructure and heavy industry
• Collective: US throttles Iran & Venezuela, China, Cuba send medical teams, equipment and medicine

  China and Cuba have stepped in with practical measures at international level amidst the near-collapse health care situation in a number of capitalist countries in the face of coronavirus pandemic
• Buell: Why Americans should stop Talking about “China Flu” and Learn some things from China

  President Trump’s insistence on calling the virus the China virus is not only misleading and a source and intensifier of ethnic conflict. It is also an accelerant of the pathogen
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  Bello: China’s Economy Is Powerful, But Deeply Vulnerable

  China’s rapid growth has reduced poverty and produced prosperity — as well as skyrocketing inequality, ecological catastrophe, and dangerous financial bubbles
• O’Dell: Between the Quarantine and Quakes: Coronavirus Life in China

  The “China” I saw being described in Sinophobic and anti-Asian racist terms on western social media was not the one I was living in
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  Rasmus: Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal

  While Trump himself will make further threats and claims, likely aimed at the Europeans, no country will agree to any changes this year when the possibility exists of Trump leaving the presidency next November 2020
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  Bello: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

  The strengths of Chinese-style capitalism have also been its vulnerabilities.
• Kotz: Reinforcing the Trade War?

  Interview on how the U.S.'s hardened trade stance has nothing to do with human rights, despite new reports of the massive human rights violations of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in western China
• Lindorff: Student Protesters Walking a Tightrope in Hong Kong

  If they are strong, steady, and work out how to modulate their protests and their demands as they maneuver their way along the tightrope of political activism, they may yet win and serve as an inspiring model to young people everywhere
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  Bond: What lessons from the Workers Party for fighting global neoliberalism?

  Lula’s release leaves capitalists annoyed and nervous
• Vallianatos: Growing Ecological Civilization in China

  I urged China to take the initiative in sponsoring a World Environment Organization for collective international activities for the transition of the world economy away from fossil fuels
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  Rasmus: US-China Mini-Trade Deal

  Trump Takes the Money and Runs
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  Weisbrot: Trump’s Trade War With China: Is It About to End?

  Trump’s trade wars are therefore best understood as a set of distractions. The end result doesn’t matter all that much to him politically, and is therefore not worth that much political risk
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  Halimi: The US’s new evil empire

  The US seems to have decided that it can’t take on China and Russia at the same time, so its principal geopolitical rival in the coming decades will be China
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  Prashad: Trump Lashes Out at Iran, China & Venezuela

  President Trump made his third address to the United Nations General Assembly amid simmering tensions in the Middle East over recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, which the United States blames on Iran
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  Feffer: Hong Kong and the Future of China

  Hong Kong’s protests are unlikely to spur major changes in the territory, much less on the mainland — but history suggests there’s a way forward
• Plummer: An Inspiring Climate Victory in Kenya

  Ahead of global climate talks, activists in Kenya successfully blocked a Chinese-backed coal plant at a world heritage site
• Kotz: Roots of the U.S.-China Trade Conflict

  Every day, the news brings more stories of U.S.-China tensions. What led to the U.S.-China trade conflict? And what would a U.S. pro-worker policy toward China look like?