China
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Biden wants to remain engaged with Russia, China
Anyone who tried to divine the Russia policy of the Biden presidency out of the corpus of statements by current and prospective officials in the new administration would know by now that the range of instincts and perspectives contained in those statements did not really reflect or anticipate what was to happen — the upcoming… Continue reading
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China blocks US bases in Central Asia
Ten months after the first meeting of the foreign ministers of China and the five Central Asian states, Beijing has followed through with a second session on May 11 at a gathering in Xi’an, China, hosted by Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The venue is symbolic. The ancient city of Xi’an used to be the ‘terminus… Continue reading
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Geopolitical Projection: US Claims China is an “Aggressor”
(Brian Berletic – NEO) – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has, in a 60 Minutes interview, accused China of acting “repressively at home and more aggressively abroad,” emphasizing it as a “fact.” He repeated unfounded claims that “1 million” Uyghurs are being interned in facilities in China’s western region of Xinjiang and referred to… Continue reading
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Watch/Read: Pepe Escobar joins Jeff J. Brown for a great conversation about the US, EU, China, Russia, Iran and DPRK, plus MUCH more
It was great to have such an informative and entertaining discussion with Pepe Escobar today. As I was editing it, I think what shines through is real friendship between two writers, journalists and analysts, who have great mutual respect for each other’s knowledge and experience. Continue reading
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Aiming At China U.S., UK Launch Ethnic Guerilla War On Myanmar
The pipe, road and rail lines through Myanmar are not only in China’s best interest but also a great chance for Myanmar to further develop. They are in its national interest. The U.S. and its allies are hostile to China. Threatening to cut its oil supplies is probably the most powerful tool in their box.… Continue reading
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Did China Stage the Videos of People Collapsing in Wuhan?
Already in mid-March 2020, at a time when many people were still buying toilet paper, SPR argued that the coronavirus situation appeared to show aspects of a possibly real pandemic, a mass psychosis, and a psychological (i.e. propaganda) operation (the “three P’s”). Continue reading
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Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China
Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks staffed with many of the same experts and funded by Taiwanese money is working hard to convince Americans that there is a new existential threat: China. Continue reading
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Watch: Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: “Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests”
Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, an ethnic minority and native of Xinjiang native on the realities of life in Xinjiang, Western media coverage and US-China tensions. Continue reading
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China: Battles Lost, Wars Won: An Environmentalist’s Story
16 April, 2021 — Sixth Tone After Friends of Nature director-general Zhang Boju saw his activism fail, he went another route. Li You This story is part of Sixth Tone’s five-year anniversary project Changemakers. The future of China’s environment depends to no small degree on a windowless meeting room at the center of a tiny 21st-floor office… Continue reading
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US’ China policy at inflection point
Considering the US media build-up as President Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry set out for China, the 4-day visit turned out to be an uneventful affair. Perhaps, the chances of President Xi Jinping participating in the signature event in Washington — the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22/23 hosted by US President Joe Biden… Continue reading
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Biden’s Russia-China Tactic Is To Wage War AND To Ask For Cooperation
The policies of the Biden administration towards Russia and China are delusional. It thinks that it can squeeze these countries but still successfully ask them for cooperation. It believes that the U.S. position is stronger than it really is and that China and Russia are much weaker than they are. Continue reading
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China and climate change: an exchange
In the Notes from the Editors to the March 2021 issue of Monthly Review, the MR editors questioned some of the arguments in Richard Smith’s book, China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse, as well as replied to Simon Pirani’s related criticisms (writing under his pseudonym of Gabriel Levy) of MR editor John Bellamy Foster on China… Continue reading
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US: Indian Ocean is not India’s ocean
The guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones sailing past Lakshadweep Islands April 7 has thrown India’s Sinophobes into confusion. One leading daily noted it as a “rare falling out between the two partners in the Quad grouping.” An anti-China analyst tweeted that it’s just a “botched PR exercise” on the part of Americans. Continue reading
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Fatuous Defence: Australia’s Guided Missile Plans
Even in times of pandemic crises, some things never change. While Australia gurgles and bumbles slowly with its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, there are other priorities at stake. Threat inflators are receiving much interest in defence, and the media is feeding on it with a drunken enthusiasm. We live in a dangerous environment, and think-tankers, parliamentarians… Continue reading
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The China-Iran pact is a game changer – III
The China-Iran joint statement of last Saturday has made waves in the international media and among regional analysts from Israel to India. Israel is anxious that there is going to be security cooperation between China and Iran. Indians are brooding over the fate of their Chabahar port project in eastern Iran, integral to its “regional… Continue reading
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The Clinton White House and Climate Change, Part II: Engaging the Oval Office
Washington, D.C., April 5, 2021 – President Bill Clinton’s climate policy faced some of its biggest challenges from two very different quarters – China and the Congress – according to a collection of recently declassified internal papers posted today by the nongovernmental National Security Archive. Continue reading
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The Dangerous Alignment of Forces on the World Chessboard
The center of gravity of the world economy and power has shifted back from the North Atlantic to Asia, the brief, supposedly unipolar moment of absolute and incontestable hegemony is over, and clear signs of this are represented by the re-emergence of Russia as a major player on the world stage, and the blossoming of… Continue reading
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“Wipe out China!” US-funded Uyghur activists train as gun-toting foot soldiers for empire
Cultivated by the US government as human rights activists, Uyghur American Association leaders partner with far-right lawmakers and operate a militia-style gun club that trains with ex-US special forces. Continue reading
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The China-Iran pact is a game changer – III
The China-Iran joint statement of last Saturday has made waves in the international media and among regional analysts from Israel to India. Israel is anxious that there is going to be security cooperation between China and Iran. Indians are brooding over the fate of their Chabahar port project in eastern Iran, integral to its “regional… Continue reading
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Need a Quote From an Official Enemy Denouncing Democracy? Do Like the New York Times and Make It Up
The New York Times (3/29/21) produces a new installment in its ongoing project of demonizing China (FAIR.org, 1/29/21): “As President Biden predicts a struggle between democracies and their opponents, Beijing is eager to champion the other side.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 