China
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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
Thursday, 12 January 2023 — The Left Lens Continue reading
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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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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan — 41
The time has come to pick up threads from my blog of January 27 titled The West co-opts the Taliban. Indeed, the wheel has come full circle: the three-day conclave in Oslo on January 23-25 between a core group of Western diplomats with Taliban officials failed to work out a reasonable a modus vivendi. The pendulum… Continue reading
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Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West
Though brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia on November 16 has become a social media sensation. Xi, assertive if not domineering, lectured the visibly apprehensive Trudeau about the etiquette of diplomacy. This exchange can be considered another watershed moment in… Continue reading
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Amid Growing War Frenzy in Europe, Cement King Settles Scores with China
Max Amstutz, the former head of the world’s largest cement company, Holcim, is calling on Europe, like many other Western warmongers before him, to arm itself massively against China and Russia in preparation for the inevitable major confrontation. Continue reading
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Historic significance of Xi’s Saudi visit
The report that Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning his first overseas trip after the Party Congress and it may be to Saudi Arabia drips with enormous symbolism. According to the Wall Street Journal, the visit is likely to take place early December and hectic preparations are under way. Continue reading
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Scholz’s China trip raises hackles
German diplomacy presented a riveting sight of “counterpoint” with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock hosting her G7 partners in Münster on November 3-4 even as Chancellor Olaf Sholz was emplaning from Berlin on a one-day visit to Beijing. Continue reading
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The message from China’s party congress
The highlight of the recent 20th National Congress of the Communist Party (CPC) of China has been the re-election of Xi Jinping as the General Secretary for another five-year term. The tradition set by Deng Xiaoping in the post-Mao Zedong era has been set aside. This was not unexpected, and has been largely interpreted as a consolidation… Continue reading
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US waging ‘unilateral’ economic and tech war to halt China’s rise, DC insiders say openly
The US government has imposed aggressive sanctions that aim to “kneecap” China’s tech sector and halt the country’s rise, Washington policymakers and industry analysts have admitted. Continue reading
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US Chip War Version 2: Decoupling from China or Declaring War?
THE US has gambled big in its latest, across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap China and retain its global dominance. From the slogan of globalisation and “free trade” of the neoliberal 90s, it has reverted to good old technology denial regimes followed by the US and its allies… Continue reading
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China: Xi’s third term – part 3: chips, dual circulation and imperialism
Even as Xi Jinping was promising China’s Communist Party’s national congress that China would “resolutely win the battle” in key areas of technology, employees of technology companies in China and elsewhere were being told to down tools. Dozens of the hundreds of executives and engineers with US citizenship or green cards who work in or with China’s semiconductor… Continue reading
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China: Xi’s third term – part two: property, debt and common prosperity
In part one of my analysis of China’s economic future, I dealt with the claims that China would slow towards stagnation because its investment rate was too high, the working population was falling fast and the economy needed to become like mature Western capitalist economies based on consumption-led growth. I argued that the Western capitalist model… Continue reading
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China: Xi’s third term – part one: growth, investment and consumption
China’s Congress of the Communist Party takes place this week. This is an important event not only for China, but globally. The Western media have concentrated on the fact that current party leader Xi Jinping will be confirmed for an unprecedented third term as party leader and thus also continue as President of China when… Continue reading
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Western Media Rely on Dubious Sources in Smears Directed Against China
By now, everyone in the West should know that there is mass slave labor in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where Muslim Uyghurs live. The slaves have to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and without pay. Worse, they are not even Uyghurs, but foreigners, and Americans at that. The inhumane owners… Continue reading
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Big picture of disengagement in Ladakh
Saturday, 10 September 2022 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR The Ministry of External Affairs has done the right thing by explaining its taciturn press release on Thursday in a single sentence regarding the disengagement of troops in the area of Gogra-Hotsprings along the LAC in the Western Sector of India-China border areas. Continue reading
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US Provocations Over Taiwan and Beijing’s Steady Remedy
September 3, 2022 (Brian Berletic – New Eastern Outlook) – The early August visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took place amid heavy protests from Beijing. The visit was a blatant violation of Washington’s bilateral agreement with Beijing regarding the “One China” policy as well as a violation of international law regarding political independence and… Continue reading
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Blaming China and other developing countries for climate change ‘is simply racist’
In response to our article posted on another Facebook environmental site commenting on how China leads the world in green energy, a US reader from New York in the USA commented: It may, but China is still the biggest CO2 emitter by far. This sort of snide response needs to be called out for what… Continue reading
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