China
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Tarpley & Escobar: China to blame or to admire?
Many Americans and US politicians are blaming China for the recession and for taking American jobs, while others say we should look to chain and immolate their system. Pepe Escobar, a correspondent for the Asia Times said China is not to blame; instead the US itself is to blame. Continue reading
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Joseph Halevi, "Beijing's Europe"
The widening of the conflict over exchange rates means that major capitalist countries are now trying to ‘solve’ the crisis by grabbing slices of each other’s markets through exports. For the US, though, the official issue is how to reduce the dependence upon the external deficit given that the crisis has highlighted the damage done… Continue reading
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CHINA AND THE “END OF THE END OF HISTORY”
Well, I guess it’s not exaggerating to say that global capitalism right now is in a structural crisis. And, of course, in some previous historical periods, we know that capitalism has similar structural crises and that later managed to survive. So the question is whether we are going to see a similar restructuring of global… Continue reading
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CHINA AND THE "END OF THE END OF HISTORY"
Well, I guess it’s not exaggerating to say that global capitalism right now is in a structural crisis. And, of course, in some previous historical periods, we know that capitalism has similar structural crises and that later managed to survive. So the question is whether we are going to see a similar restructuring of global… Continue reading
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CORRUPTION COUNTERS CHINA’S PLANNING
So in one of our earlier interviews, we talked about whether or not China was really pulling out of the global recession and how much it had been affected. At the time, you’d suggested that a lot of this was really just state stimulus spending and circulating of more money. To what extent do you… Continue reading
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CORRUPTION COUNTERS CHINA'S PLANNING
So in one of our earlier interviews, we talked about whether or not China was really pulling out of the global recession and how much it had been affected. At the time, you’d suggested that a lot of this was really just state stimulus spending and circulating of more money. To what extent do you… Continue reading
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WILL CHINESE WORKERS CHALLENGE GLOBAL CAPITALISM?
Minqi Li: Wave of strikes for higher wages could become a political movement Continue reading
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China-US: Wisdom not gunboats By Eric Walberg
“From a historical perspective, the US has continuously found enemies and waged wars. Without enemies the US cannot hold the will of the whole nation,” concluded Chinese Air Force Colonel Dai Xu, after perusing the 2010 US defense report. He points to the attempt to turn the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) into an… Continue reading
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Part II: U.S.-China Crisis: Beyond Words To Confrontation By Rick Rozoff
Ulchi Freedom Guardian 2010 is the latest and largest in a series of almost uninterrupted war games and naval maneuvers conducted over the past five weeks in the region: The Korean Peninsula, the seas on either side of it, and the South China Sea. Three of the four nations involved are regional actors: South Korea,… Continue reading
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U.S.-China Conflict: From War Of Words To Talk Of War Part I By Rick Rozoff
Relations between the U.S. and China have been steadily deteriorating since the beginning of the year when Washington confirmed the completion of a $6.4 billion arms deal with Taiwan and China suspended military-to-military ties with the U.S. in response. The Washington Post reported afterward that during a two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing this… Continue reading
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“Russia & China cooperate much better than ever before” – RT Top Stories
Vice Chancellor of research and international relations at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy, Evgeny Bazhanov, spoke with RT about China’s overwhelming growth and the challenges it faces. Continue reading
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U.S. Expands Asian NATO To Contain And Confront China By Rick Rozoff
What in fact the U.S. is doing to complete its status as history’s first sole world military superpower, as its commander-in-chief Barack Obama referred to it in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, is to not only drag almost all Asia-Pacific nations into a military bloc analogous to NATO, but to integrate the East into… Continue reading
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Pentagon Provokes New Crisis With China By Rick Rozoff
Three news features appearing earlier this week highlight tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China that, at least in relation to the language used to describe them, would have seemed unimaginable even a few months ago and are evocative more of the Korean War era than of any time since the… Continue reading
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How Wars Are Born: China versus the U.S. By Shamus Cooke
The corporate controlled New York Times published a revealing article about how U.S. foreign policy really works, and why. The motive behind the sincerity is that China’s foreign policy was being attacked. However, the article soon made it clear that China’s policy is the same as the U.S.’s : dominating regions that are of “economic… Continue reading
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Strained US ‘ China Relations: China’s Crucial Role as America’s Creditor By Prof. James Petras
The Obama Administration has heightened tensions with China through a series of measures which can only be characterized as major provocations designed to undermine relations between the two countries. These provocations include political support for separatist movements, such as the US-funded theocratic-monk led Tibetan secessionists and the Washington-based Uyghur secessionists, as well as through the… Continue reading
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Another U.S. War? Obama Threatens China and Iran By Shamus Cooke
The possibility of yet another U.S. war became more real last week, when the Obama administration sharply confronted both China and Iran. The first aggressive act was performed by Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who “warned” China that it must support serious economic sanctions against Iran (an act of war). Continue reading
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U.S.-China Military Tensions Grow By Rick Rozoff
Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China’s (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for next year compared to Russia spending less than $40 billion last year for the same, China and Russia are portrayed as threats to… Continue reading
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"China, America, and the Economic Crisis: Minqi Li Interviewed by Paul Jay"
The point is that China right now is still depending on the export markets, depending on export to the US. So, that gives the US a little bit of leverage. But on the other hand, the US cannot expect to hold that leverage forever, because the US will not be able to return to the… Continue reading
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Andrei VOLODIN: Afghanistan: a view from India and China
The Indian elite is becoming more concerned about the situation in Afghanistan. Indian analysts pay much attention to the fact that the majority of the US population-irrespective of their political preferences- speaks for the unconditional withdrawal of the American troops from Afghanistan. Delhi thinks that in order to remain in power after the presidential elections… Continue reading
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Russia-India-China: The Bush curse By Eric Walberg
Moscow is trying to draw India and China closer to put out the flames now flaring across the continent, from the Caucasus and Central Asia, to Iran and Pakistan, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
The New Dark Age 