China
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Biden gives green signal to US-China thaw
The visit to Tianjin by President Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry on September 1-3 is assuming a huge dimension holding promise as a defining moment in the tense bilateral relationship between China and the US. Unlike Kerry’s previous visit in April to Shanghai, his conversation has broadened and deepened this time around, going well beyond… Continue reading
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To Counter U.S. Hostility China Moves Towards People Centered Policies
In December 2001 China became a member of the World Trade Organization. That opened new markets for China’s industry and attracted a lot of foreign investment. The growth in GDP that China has achieved since is breathtaking. Continue reading
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China News Links 30 August – 1 September 2021
1 September 2021 — The New Dark Age Michael Hudson: Global Financial Empire, Parts 1-3 https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/michael-hudson-global-financial-empire-parts-1-3/ The ANZUS Security Treaty At 70 https://orientalreview.org/2021/09/01/the-anzus-security-treaty-at-70/ Continue reading
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Xinjiang Uyghur propaganda mirrors NATO’s Yugoslavia narratives
“The aim of propaganda was to split up Yugoslavia,” confessed former CIA agent Robert Baer in 2015. “I arrived in Sarajevo for the first time on the 12th of January 1991. I came by helicopter with three other agents. Our task was to observe Serbian terrorists who were supposed to attack the city. We got… Continue reading
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China News Links 27-30 August 2021
30 August 2021 — The New Dark Age Is The Defeat In Afghanistan Aimed At Embarrassing Russia And China? https://orientalreview.org/2021/08/30/is-the-defeat-in-afghanistan-aimed-at-embarrassing-russia-and-china/ China cuts children’s online gaming to one hour https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58384457 Continue reading
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US-China relations at crossroads
The Biden Administration, in dire straits over Afghanistan, is pursuing China for help. There have been two phone calls to Chinese State Councilor and FM Wang Yi from US Secretary of state Antony Blinken since August 16 alone. Continue reading
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HSBC is the 800-pound Gorilla in the Canadian Courtroom that No One is Talking About
The prosecution of telecommunications giant Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou on charges of violating U.S. sanctions policies with Iran has been very politicized from the outset and a bellwether in the decline of U.S.-Sino relations in an era of renewed cold war. Continue reading
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Russia, China circle the wagons. Iran is in it
The Tehran Times reported on Wednesday that Moscow has conveyed to Tehran that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has reached a consensus on Iran’s admission as a full member of the grouping. Continue reading
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Monthly Review July-August 2021
9 August 2021 — Monthly Review July-August 2021 (Volume 73, Number 3) The Editors (July 4, 2021) buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review is devoted to the New Cold War on China. What has been the view of the Chinese Revolution presented in Monthly Review in the past seven decades? How has it changed over time? As… Continue reading
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China Eradicates Absolute Poverty While Billionaires Go for a Joyride to Space: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2021)
Confounding news comes from the flagship World Economic Outlook report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The report highlights many of the pressing issues facing our planet: disruptions in the global supply chain, rising shipping costs, shortages of intermediate goods, rising commodity prices, and inflationary pressures in many economies. Global growth rates are expected to touch 6% in… Continue reading
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Requiem for an Empire: A Prequel
The inexorable imperial rot will go on, a tawdry affair carrying no dramatic, aesthetic pathos worthy of a Gotterdammerung. Assaulted by cognitive dissonance across the spectrum, the Empire of Chaos now behaves as a manic depressive inmate, rotten to the core – a fate more filled with dread than having to face a revolt of the satrapies. Continue reading
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Blinken’s single-point agenda in Delhi – China
The overnight visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to New Delhi has been an eye-opener in many ways. It highlighted how much India has changed through the searing pain and suffering it underwent in the past one-year period and how that tumultuous period also led to a reset in the government’s calculus. Continue reading
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US Fingerprints on Terrorism Aimed At China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
In April of this year and then again in July, two attacks in Pakistan, west of the Indus River, appear to have targeted Beijing’s partnership with Islamabad. Continue reading
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U.S. – China Talks Point To A Longer Conflict
The U.S. wants to slice and dice its approach to China. It will use all means to take advantage of China where it can, while restricting China in those fields were it can no longer compete with it. The Chinese reject that approach. The U.S., they say, should not see China as an enemy. It… Continue reading
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China explains its Afghan motivations
The ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the meeting of the SCO-Afghanistan working group at Dushanbe on July 13-14 have thrown light on the templates of China’s approach to the evolving situation in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Countering the “China Threat” – At What Price?
In early June 2021, in a classified directive to Pentagon officials, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin slammed the former Trump administration for talking big but never taking action to counter “the China threat.” Continue reading
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Horn of Africa — Washington’s Next Arab Spring?
The Biden State Department has just named career diplomat Jeffrey Feltman to be Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa. Given the geopolitical powder keg in the region and given the dark history of Feltman, especially in Lebanon and during the infamous CIA Arab Spring interventions after 2009, the relevant question is whether Washington has… Continue reading
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CPC transforms China as a world class power
This is the season to reread Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China, the classic work on the birth of the communist movement in China. Alongside John Reid’s Ten Days That Shook the World, the gripping eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Snow’s book was compulsive reading in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm as college… Continue reading
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Chinese Communist Party: a party of workers or capitalists?
It’s 100 years today since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was first formed by just 50 members, mostly intellectuals, but including railway and mine workers. 100 years later to the day, the official membership figure is 95m and there are 4.8m party branches. This is surely the largest political party the world has ever seen. A… Continue reading
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Pentagon Whistleblower Under Investigation For Trying To Prevent War With China Over Taiwan
Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl has been part of the United States Marine Corps for over four decades. He spent the last months trying to warn U.S. government officials and the public of the threat of becoming entangled in a war with China over Taiwan. Continue reading
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