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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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Hallinan: China & the US: 21st Century’s “Great Game”
The U.S. has dominated the Pacific Ocean—sometimes called an “American lake”—since the end of World War II. Suddenly Americans have a competitor, although it is a rivalry that routinely gets overblown.
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Former US Allies Britain, France, Germany join Russia and China in Forcefully Rejecting Trump Iran Sanctions
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Wilkerson: The Danger of War With China is Real and Insane
China and the U.S. must work together to solve the climate crisis, but the power of the militaries and national security states on both sides is making that impossible
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Julian: Weaponizing Intellectual Property: the Scientist and the Spy
Free cooperative development of ideas in these crucial areas to improve the world – food, energy, health – should be the norm
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Siddiqa: The rise of the Middle Kingdom in the Middle East: China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stands as the most prominent example of the pivotal shift in Chinese foreign policy from Deng Xiaoping’s “bide and hide” philosophy to the current ambitious endeavors
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Benjamin: U.S. Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the U.S, Not China
Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China
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Pilger: Another Hiroshima is coming — unless we stop it now
Modern China's epic achievements, its defeat of mass poverty, and the pride and contentment of its people (measured forensically by American pollsters such as Pew) are willfully unknown or misunderstood in the West. This alone is a commentary on the lamentable state of Western journalism and the abandonment of honest reporting
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Cockburn: The UK and US are Starting a New Cold War with Russia and China
What are These Governments Trying to Hide?
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Feffer: Conservatives Are Comparing Racial Justice Protestors to Maoists
Right-wing “intellectuals” uncomfortable with the Black Lives Matter movement have latched onto a dubious historical analogy.
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Prashad: Why Iran’s Fuel Tankers for Venezuela Are Sending Shudders Through Washington
At the United Nations China has been outspoken against the regime change policy driven by the United States against both states. It has been this Chinese shield that enabled the tankers to go through what is effectively a U.S. naval blockade of Venezuela
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Feffer: Trump’s ‘Uncreative Destruction’ of the U.S.-China Relationship
Trump’s economic war on China comes in the shadow of an even deadlier military escalation. And it may not stop after November, no matter who wins the election
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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...
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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...
