China

  • China News Links 12-13 August 2019

    13 August 2019 • 19:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Trump delays some tariffs on Chinese imports https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49287494 Farmers Hit Back as USDA Chief Mocks Those Harmed by Trade War as “Whiners” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/tGWtQlhgn9U/farmers-hit-back-as-usda-chief-mocks-those-harmed-by-trade-war-as-whiners.html Continue reading

  • NATO’s China Double-Think by Finian Cunningham

    The U.S.-led NATO alliance this week designated a whole new hemisphere to itself for “security” operations. No longer merely an “Atlantic” organization, it’s assuming the role of policing the Pacific. Quite a self-promotion. Continue reading

  • China News Links 11-12 August 2019

    12 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Following AUSMIN talks, Australian politician compares China to Nazi Germany http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/hast-s10.html Could The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Contribute to Resolving the Kashmir Crisis https://www.globalresearch.ca/could-the-shanghai-cooperation-organization-sco-contribute-to-resolving-the-kashmir-crisis/5686223 Continue reading

  • A Sino-Russian firewall against US interference By M.K. Bhadrakumar

    China has explicitly accused the United States and Britain for fomenting the “pro-democracy” protests in Hong Kong. Beijing has taken up the matter via the diplomatic channel demanding that the US intelligence should stop inciting and abetting the Hong Kong protestors. Last week photographic evidence appeared in the media showing the political counsellor in the… Continue reading

  • China News Links 10 August 2019

    10 August 2019 — The New Dark Age Following AUSMIN talks, Australian politician compares China to Nazi Germany http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/hast-s10.html Desperation rules the US’ Iran policy https://journal-neo.org/2019/08/10/desperation-rules-the-u-s-iran-policy/ Continue reading

  • China News Links 9 August 2019

    9 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back NATO’s China Double-Think by Finian Cunningham + Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China by Ellen Brown https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/08/09/natos-china-double-think-by-finian-cunningham-neoliberalism-has-met-its-match-in-china-by-ellen-brown/ Today’s Links 9 August 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/08/todays-links_9.html Continue reading

  • The US-China Trade War: Selected Stories

    8 August 2019 — Global Research “On a Scale of 1-10, It’s an 11” – Wall Street Reacts to China’s Retaliation By Zero Hedge One day after China finally snapped, and demonstratively refused to intervene and keep the CNH above 7.00 vs the dollar, escalating the trade war into a currency war, stocks are tumbling and Wall… Continue reading

  • China News Links 6-7 August 2019

    7 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Currency Manipulation or Currency War–radio interview https://jackrasmus.com/2019/08/07/currency-manipulation-or-currency-war-radio-interview/ Turkey – “Middle Kingdom” between the Two Camps https://journal-neo.org/2019/08/07/turkey-the-middle-kingdom-between-the-two-camps/ Continue reading

  • China reacts to J&K, India demands reciprocity

    In the aftermath of the Modi government’s decision to remove ‘special status’ for J&K and bifurcate the state into two union territories, the most keenly awaited regional and international reaction — and a hugely consequential one — would be that of China’s, not the US’ or even of the other three P5 member states.   Continue reading

  • China Considers To Protect Its Ships From … U.S. Piracy

    6 August 2019 — Moon of Alabama Will China join the U.S. led ‘coalition’ to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz? It sounds unlikely but this Reuters piece claims that China is thinking about it: Continue reading

  • China News Links 5 August 2019

    5 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back The Global Currency War Has Begun. China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band. Why is The Dollar Rising? https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-yuan-breaks-7-1-band-global-currency-war-has-begun/5685617 Currency War Begins: Chinese Yuan Crashes to New Record Low… Continue reading

  • China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band–The Global Currency War Has Begun

    Over this weekend, China’s Yuan currency broke out of its band and devalued to more than 7 to $1. At the same time China announced it would not purchase more US agricultural goods. The Trump-US Neocon trade strategy has just imploded. As this writer has been predicting, the threshold has now been passed, from a… Continue reading

  • Violent ‘Color Revolution’ In Hong Kong Fails Despite Strong NYT Support

    When the U.S. instigates its so called ‘color revolutions’, the transatlantic main stream media are usually supportive. But the support is rarely as extreme as the extraordinary one the New York Times gives to the rioters in Hong Kong. Continue reading

  • China News Links 29-31 July 2019

    31 July 2019 — The New Dark Age The Recent Japanese Elections Might Slow Down The US’ “Indo-Pacific” Strategy https://orientalreview.org/2019/07/31/the-recent-japanese-elections-might-slow-down-the-us-indo-pacific-strategy/ Erdogan’s Risky Geopolitical Pirouette https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/31/erdogan-s-risky-geopolitical-pirouette/ Continue reading

  • Destabilizing Pakistan: Bookending Washington’s China Policy By Tony Cartalucci

    Much is being said of US activities aimed at China. Recent protests in Hong Kong together with a US-led propaganda campaign aimed at Beijing’s attempts to quell a growing terrorist threat in Xinjiang are aimed at pressuring the nation to fall back into line within Washington’s enduring unipolar international order. Continue reading

  • China News Links 26 July 2019

    26 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Escaping Censorship http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2019/07/escaping-censorship.html Joining Hands with WWF, GAC Motor Drives Success of China’s First National Park https://tass.com/press-releases/1070508 Continue reading

  • Russia and China display strategic coordination in Asia-Pacific

    An exciting new template has appeared in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific last week when Russia’s Aerospace Force and China’s Air Force carried out their first-ever joint air patrol in the region. Continue reading

  • China News Links 23-24 July 2019

    24 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back China’s national defense document commends military cooperation with Russia https://tass.com/defense/1070093 China favors banning on all nuclear weapons — national defense document https://tass.com/defense/1070087 Continue reading

  • China is Most Definitely Not a Semi-Colony

    I have prepared this posting in a landscape form because it is more suited to bullet points. Many Marxist sects still hold to the view that China remains a form of workers’ state and if not a workers’ state then definitely a semi-colony. Marx always held the view that the critique of political economy, commonly… Continue reading

  • BBC Says China Building Schools is “Bad” by Tony Cartalucci

    China’s recent building-spree of schools in its underdeveloped and remote region of Xinjiang – in a saner world – would be good news. But for editors at the BBC it is being depicted as sinister and dystopian. Continue reading