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• 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?
• Lee: “Father of Democracy” Calls on Gov’t to Heed Demonstrators’ Demands

  Following another weekend of mass protests in Hong Kong, this marks 13 weeks of protesters calling for greater political freedom and the scrapping of a controversial extradition bill with China
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  Brown: Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China

  We cannot win a currency war through the use of competitive currency devaluations that trigger a “race to the bottom”
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  Baker: China Did Not Trick the US

  Trade Negotiators Served Corporate Interests
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  Fisk: If Chinese tanks take Hong Kong, who’ll be surprised?

  We are growing accustomed to the sight of armies and paramilitary forces taking over other people’s property
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  Rasmus: The Global Currency War Has Begun

  China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band
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  Rasmus: The Escalating US-China Trade War

  Failing to get China to capitulate in trade talks this...
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  Chen: A New Kind of Internationalism

  A look at Hong Kong Protesters and Militant Chinese Workers
• Biddle: Why an “AI Race” Between the U.S. and China Is a Terrible, Terrible Idea

  Rather than clamoring for a dead sprint toward some sort of national AI supremacy, defined however and by whomever, our time might be better spent worrying in earnest about what lies at the finish line
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  Baker: Trump’s Fixation on Intellectual Property Rights Serves the Rich

  If we had some mechanism for sharing research costs across countries, then new drugs could sell for a few dollars per prescription, instead of a few thousand
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  Rasmus: US vs. China: From Tariff War to Economic War

  Nextgen technology development is at the core of that restructuring and restoration of US hegemony. Trump is just the appearance, the historic vehicle, behind the deeper global capitalist transformation in progress
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  Hiro: Keep America Great (Don’t Count on It!)

  Two Years Later, Trump Has Failed to Reverse America’s Decline
• Dolack: Look to U.S. executive suites, not Beijing, for why production is moved

  Empty public rhetoric aside, Trump administration policy on trade, consistent with its all-out war on working people, is to elevate corporate power