China
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Trump’s China policy at a cul-de-sac
This past week has been a catastrophic seven days that shook America. Some of the debris may have inevitably fallen on President Donald Trump too. Most important, the Trump administration has lost the plot on China. Continue reading
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Stock markets innoculated, but economy remains vulnerable due to underlying condition – low profitability
In many ways, we are now in the eye of the hurricane or cyclone. That eerie calm with clear blue skies. But as any meteorologist knows, the tail winds that follow this calm are more powerful and destructive than the leading winds which have recently passed. Continue reading
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Beijing sees Trump’s hand and won’t fold
Everyone was expecting US President Donald Trump to go nuclear by de facto sanctioning China to death over Hong Kong. In an environment where Twitter and the President of the United States are now engaged in open warfare, the rule is that there are no rules anymore. Continue reading
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Covid-19 impacts global alignments
The sluice gates have opened, as it were, on world politics after the ‘timeout’ through the past 2-3 months due to Covid-19. The spectacle of America’s epic war with Covid-19 under President Donald Trump’s watch creates a range of emotions in the world community — ranging from sympathy and pity to horror and derison. This… Continue reading
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Russia, China won’t accept US nuclear superiority
Geopolitics has returned with a bang although Covid-19 is still very much around and a ‘second wave’ is also expected. The US President Donald Trump’s arms control negotiator, Special Presidential Envoy Marshall Billingslea said in an online presentation to a Washington think tank on Thursday that the United States is prepared to spend Russia and… Continue reading
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China’s Move In Hong Kong Illustrates The End Of U.S. Superiority
Blaming China for the Covid-19 pandemic is false. But the U.S. will continue to do so as a part of its larger anti-China strategy. Continue reading
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U.S. Threatens New Nuclear Tests To Push China Into A Treaty It Does Not Want
The Trump administration is hostile to any agreement that restricts its abilities to build, test and deploy nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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China in the post-pandemic 2020s
China’s National Peoples Congress (NPC) opened today, having been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The NPC is China’s version of a parliament and used by the Communist party leaders to report on the state of the economy and outline their plans for the future, both domestically and globally. Continue reading
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China updates its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’
Chinese General Qiao Liang argues, ‘If we have to dance with the wolves, we should not dance to the rhythm of the United States’ Continue reading
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Washington’s New Anti-China Strategy
Regardless of the anti-Chinese hysteria of the group that imposed Western health policy responses to the Covid-19 epidemic, it demonstrated Western dependence on Chinese manufactured products. This led the Trump administration to move from a desire to rebalance trade to a military confrontation, without however resorting to war. The sabotage of the Silk Roads has… Continue reading
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What Did U.S. Intel Really Know About the ‘Chinese’ Virus?
Hybrid War 2.0 on China, a bipartisan U.S. operation, is already reaching fever pitch. Its 24/7 full spectrum infowar arm blames China for everything coronavirus-related – doubling as a diversionist tactic against any informed criticism of woeful American unpreparedness. Continue reading
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Truth and Propaganda About Coronavirus
Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration. Continue reading
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China Forges Ahead Through Chaos and US Threats
Amid the deepest economic contraction in nearly a century, President Xi Jinping had already made it very clear, last month, that China should be ready for unprecedented, relentless foreign challenges. Continue reading
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As Death Toll Increases Blame China Campaign Intensifies
The Trump administration will continue its efforts to blame China for the novel Coronavirus because the epidemic situation in U.S. will soon become worse Continue reading
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Russia-China entente deepens in the shadow of the pandemic
The Russian-Chinese entente emerged as one of the most significant templates of international politics in the recent period since the hugely consequential developments in Ukraine in 2014 that led to western sanctions against Moscow, which in turn galvanised the latter’s ‘pivot to Asia’. Continue reading
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The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here
We’ve become incapable of talking calmly about possible solutions because we’ve lost the ability to decouple scientific or policy discussions, or simple issues of fact, from a political argument. Reporting on the Covid-19 crisis has become the latest in a line of moral manias with Donald Trump in the middle. Continue reading
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Cold War of Trump/Navarro vs China
The blind horseman, who hates China intuitively, without knowing hardly anything about it, is leading the pack, pushing his president into a confrontation with the most populous country on Earth. His name is Peter Navarro. Continue reading
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Covid-19 and The Red Dawn Emails
The Covid-19 outbreak has so far killed more than 200,000 people and frightened billions more into panic. A panic that deprives most of them of any critical sense and pushes them to make or approve stupid political decisions. A group of personalities, Red Dawn, whose correspondence was revealed by Kaiser Health News and the New… Continue reading
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Covid-19 has a grandma, grandpa and great grandpa. Where are they? By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The search for the genesis of Covid-19 is developing into an epic story. Thanks to the insinuations by the US President Donald Trump — ‘China virus’, ‘Wuhan virus’, etc. — that were explosive in their political and strategic content, Beijing is now more determined than ever to get to the bottom of the story. Continue reading
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When war looms, protect the truth at all cost
The tone and content of the accusations levelled by the imperialists at China has changed. From blaming China to now holding it responsible and demanding reparations, not for the deaths of its citizens, but as is the capitalist way, for their financial losses. The nature of these aggressive demands could lead to war. The purpose… Continue reading