China
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Manipur escalation draws attention to Myanmar
The sharp escalation by the Kuki militants in Manipur has shaken up the Indian establishment but the ensuing jingoistic outcry in sections of the media demands a muscular approach to addressing the problem of militancy. This is fraught with serious consequences. Continue reading
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Warmonger Confessions: More Frankness on AUKUS
The problem with satellite states and subject powers is that their representatives are rarely to be trusted, especially on matters regarding security. Their idea of safety and assurance is tied up in the interests of some other power, one who supposedly guarantees it through a promised force of arms come the place and come the… Continue reading
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Subliminal Message from Beijing to Washington amidst the War Drums
Anger is a pyromaniac. Under its influence, we tend to provoke a reaction from our adversary, which serves as fuel to fan the flames, thus increasing the legitimacy of the angry inferno. The method is convenient for practicing accusatory inversion and making the one reacting to aggression the instigator of hell. Continue reading
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China ignores US entreaties of mediation
There is an old proverb that when misfortunes come, they come in battalions. Coming on top of reports of American soldiers going down like nine-pins on a drone strike against the super secret CIA station for intelligence and covert operations on the Syrian-Jordanian border, ’nyet’ is the word from Beijing to the Biden administration’s entreaties… Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: Russia-China Partnership Defangs US Empire
China’s State Council has released a crucial policy paper titled ‘A Global Community of Shared Future: China’s Proposals and Actions’ that should be read as a detailed, comprehensive road map for a peaceful, multipolar future. Continue reading
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60 Minutes Australia Keeps Churning Out War-With-China Propaganda
60 Minutes Australia has been playing a leading role in saturating Australian airwaves with consent-manufacturing messaging in support of militarising to participate in a US war against China. A segment they ran a year ago is titled “Prepare for Armageddon: China’s warning to the world,” and features an image of Xi Jinping overlaid with war… Continue reading
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XI AND PUTIN MAKE HISTORY | THE DURAN ON RUSSIA AND CHINA’S GAINS | UKRAINE IS OUT OF TIME
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China steps up, a new era has dawned in world politics
The agreement announced on Friday in Beijing regarding the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the reopening of their embassies is a historic event. It goes way beyond an issue of Saudi-Iranian relations. China’s mediation signifies that we are witnessing a profound shift of the tectonic plates in the geopolitics of… Continue reading
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No, Australia Does Not Actually Need To Prepare For War With China
In the latest instance of the Australian media’s deluge of propaganda geared toward manufacturing consent for war with China, Nine Entertainment-owned newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have brought together a panel of “experts” to assess how well-prepared Australia is for a hot war with its primary trading partner. The question of if that war is necessary or should… Continue reading
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War party target lists expands from Crimea to China
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the growing pressure on the Biden administration to take its Ukraine proxy war to Crimea, while military leaders openly discuss plans for war with China over Taiwan, while acknowledging the inevitability of Taiwan’s destruction. The militaristic fever comes as antiwar rallies gain momentum across the Atlantic and… Continue reading
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Not Just The China Balloon, US Has A History of Hysteria
The downing of a Chinese balloon by the United States was a clear episode of hysteria. In fact, the US has a history of unhinged responses to perceived threats. Continue reading
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China reboots ‘no limit’ partnership with Russia
The ‘butterfly effect’ of the visit by the Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee Wang Yi to Moscow on February 21-22 is already discernible. It can influence a much larger complex system still. Continue reading
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The United States Wants to Make Taiwan the Ukraine of the East: The Sixth Newsletter (2023)
On 2 February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they agreed to expand the US military presence in the country. In a joint statement, the two governments agreed to ‘announce their plans to accelerate the full implementation of the Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement… Continue reading
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Blinken’s Travel Canceling Adds To China Hate
The paranoid style is not only used on the right-wing side of policies. Adam Schiff’s action during ‘Russiagate’ applied plenty of it. The paranoid style applies to internal U.S. politics as well as to foreign policies against this or that favorite enemy of that time. Continue reading
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China Appears Poised to Achieve through Cooperation in the 21st Century what Japan Sought to Achieve through Coercion in the 20th
U.S. elites have predictably reacted with hysteria to China’s rise and could go so far as to provoke a world war to try to salvage their Southeast Asia empire—as the Roosevelt administration did with Japan on the eve of Pearl Harbor. Continue reading
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China’s economy is on a rebound
In truth, we don’t need to like or support – and may even abhor – the targets of media bias highlighted in our analyses. Our goal is simply to provide examples that most clearly expose the propaganda function of ‘mainstream’ media. Inevitably, that involves our focusing on thorns in the Establishment’s side. Continue reading
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NORTH KOREA AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER w/ Nodutdol | The Duran REACTS to Ukraine’s Soledar Defeat
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In 2022, The U.S.-led Unipolar Order Was More Unstable Than Ever
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin via video link on December 30, which drew alarm from certain Western media outlets. The New York Times, for example, concluded that the call came amid a “weak moment” for both leaders. Readers were led to believe that both China and Russia find themselves “isolated and… Continue reading
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Russia dropping US dollar for Chinese yuan – and fast
Due to Western sanctions, Russia’s central bank is dropping the US dollar, will buy Chinese yuan on foreign exchange market. Yuan’s share of Moscow’s currency trading increased from 1% to 45% in 2022. Continue reading
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Nothing Good Will Come from the New Cold War with Australia as a Frontline State: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 8 December 2022 — The Tricontinental John (Prince) Siddon (Australia), Slim Dusty, Looking Forward, Looking Back, 2021. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 15 November 2022, during the G20 summit in Bali (Indonesia), Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told journalists that his country ‘seeks a stable relationship with China’. This is… Continue reading
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