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What sanctions on Russia and China really mean By Pepe Escobar
A crucial Pentagon report on the US defense industrial base and “supply chain resiliency” bluntly accuses China of “military expansion” and “a strategy of economic aggression,” mostly because Beijing is the only source for “a number of chemical products used in munitions and missiles.” Russia is mentioned only once, but in a crucial paragraph: as… Continue reading
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How The U.S. Runs Public Relations Campaigns – Trump Style – Against Russia And China By Moon of Alabama
Yesterday several NATO countries ran a concerted propaganda campaign against Russia. The context for it was a NATO summit in which the U.S. presses for an intensified cyberwar against NATO’s preferred enemy. Continue reading
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Tensions Grow as China, Russia and Iran Lead the Way Towards a New Multipolar World Order By Federico PIERACCINI
Military and economic tensions are increasing due to the ramped up warlike stance of the US establishment. The impossibility of halting the shifting world order in favour of prolonging the unipolar moment has left the US deep state reaching for any available weapon at hand, taking no heed of the dangers and consequences of such… Continue reading
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The implications of US-China trade war By Nick Beams
The US is demanding that the trade deficit with China be reduced, but the conflict does not merely centre on that issue. China has made offers to increase its imports from the US, all of which have been rejected. The key US demand is that the Chinese government completely abandon its program of economic development… Continue reading
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Trumponomics: Is Post-Fordism on Reverse Gear? By K M Seethi
US President Donald Trump has been speaking with hyperbole, over the last several months, that his ‘trade war’ with China, tough bargains with the European Union as well as the emerging economies (like India) would bring the ‘American glory’ back, besides generating more jobs in his country. More recently, Trump rolled out a red carpet… Continue reading
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China’s Response to Western Globalization: Selected Articles
25 August 2018 — — Global Research China’s Strategic Interests in Central America: El Salvador Breaks Off with Taiwan By Andrew Korybko, August 24, 2018 El Salvador’s decision to break off ties with Taipei and “defect” to Beijing obviously had a lot to do with the economic aid that China promised it, but the People’s Republic is embracing… Continue reading
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The Dirty Secret of the Korean War By Thomas Powell
The Korean War has been called “America’s forgotten war”. The heavily weaponized US Army was fought to a draw by Soviet-equipped North Korean and Chinese armies. For the very first time in its storied legacy of military campaigns dating back to American Independence, the US Army did not prevail in war. In its next colonial… Continue reading
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Trump, NATO and ‘Russian aggression’ By Pepe Escobar
The US President’s blitzkrieg at the Brussels summit, calling NATO obsolete and for member states to boost spending to defend themselves is correct, although maybe aimed at more weapons deals; meanwhile, the global balance of power is shifting Continue reading
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NYT Sees 'Dystopia' in Chinese Surveillance—Which Looks a Lot Like US Surveillance By Jim Naureckas
There’s a category of story we call “Them Not Us”—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home. There’s a great example of that in the New York Times (7/8/18), headlined “Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: AI, Shame and Lots of Cameras.” Continue reading
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China’s Determined March Towards An Ecological Civilization By Andre Vltchek
So, are we now dealing with the thoroughly hopeless scenario? Did the world go mad? Is it ready to get sacrificed for the profit of the very few? Are people simply going to stand passively, watching what is happening around them, and die, as their world goes literally up in flames? It appeared so, until… Continue reading
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Blackouts and Flashpoints in 2018: Who Rules America, Globalization and Geopolitics By Prof. James Petras
I believe that we will experience a radical making and remaking of political and economic integration, East and West, within and without nations states. ‘States Rights’ will re-emerge as an antidote to globalization. Big countries will compete in regional wars with limited commitments but with global goals. Continue reading
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Russian and Now Chinese Media are “Foreign Agents”? Selected Articles
30 November 2017 — Global Research Russia-Gate Gone Wild: Congressional Press Office Strips RT’s Capitol Hill Credentials By Stephen Lendman, November 30, 2017 Things are worse under Trump. Hostile actions against RT America and Sputnik News may be prelude to criminalizing their US operations, forcing them to shut down if things go this far. Continue reading
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$elling War and Pentagon Expansion in Asia-Pacific By Bruce Gagnon
Trump touched down in Hawaii on his way to Asia. He was met with protests there and huge marches are happening across South Korea in anticipation of his meeting with the newly elected President Moon in Seoul. Moon is turning out to be a disappointment to peaceniks across Korea as he carries water for the… Continue reading
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THE COMING WAR ON CHINA A film by John Pilger
With Donald Trump threatening a war in Asia over North Korea, the real target is China. A new feature-length documentary by award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger is perhaps Pilger’s most timely and urgent investigation. The film is both a warning and an inspiring story of people’s resistance. Continue reading
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BRICS: Weakening US Hegemony, Reshaping the Global Economy?
3 September 2017 — Global Research In light of the ninth BRICS summit which will be held in Xiamen, China on September 4 and 5, Global Research brings to your attention some articles on the framework and roadmap of the BRICS partnership. Will the US empire break the on-going strategic relations between the concerned countries? Or will… Continue reading
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China and Russia, Beijing’s “Belt and Road” Initiative, Towards an Economy of Peace? By Peter Koenig
1 September 2017 — Global Research Why is Peace not breaking out, when the vast majority of the world’s populace does not want war? Why is the world one huge fireball of hostilities, conflicts, threats of economic sanctions, propaganda of lies and mind manipulations, fearmongering – killing – massive killing – 12-15 million people killed since… Continue reading
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More American Troops to Afghanistan, To Keep the Chinese Out? Lithium and the Battle for Afghanistan’s Mineral Riches By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The implication of Trump’s resolve is to plunder and steal Afghanistan’s mineral riches to finance the “reconstruction” of a country destroyed by the US and its allies after 16 years of war, i.e “War reparations” paid to the aggressor nation? Continue reading
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Imagine What Would Happen if China Decided to Impose Economic Sanctions on the USA? Selected Articles
3 August 2017 — Global Research Imagine What Would Happen if China Decided to Impose Economic Sanctions on the USA? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 03, 2017 Following the completion of the investigation, Washington threatens to “impose steep tariffs on Chinese imports [into the US], rescind licenses for Chinese companies to do business in the United States, or… Continue reading
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China Ascends to World Leadership By Roy Morrison
President Trump’s decision to leave Paris Climate Treaty on the same day that the EU and Chinese Premier Li reached agreement on steps to move rapidly globally on climate also marks the day that China ascended to world leadership replacing the United States symbolically and in actuality. Continue reading
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New World Order Triumvirate: US, China, Japan? By Eric Walbeg
19 May 2017 — Eric Walberg Watching the most recent Hollywood blockbuster, The Martian, I was struck by the political subtext. The great pioneer of outer space was the Soviet Union, and in those days, Hollywood followed the spirit of detente and cooperation in space with such uplifting films as Space Odyssey 2010 and the… Continue reading
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