Why China’s capital exports can weaken Imperialism
by Dr Jay Tharappel. Originally published in the World Review of Political Economy, available here https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.12.1.0027
Myths of the 1989 Tiananmen Square ‘Massacre’
“The story that Chinese troops machine-gunned hundreds of innocent student protesters on 3-4 June 1989 has been thoroughly debunked by many of those present in the Square on those nights. Among them was a Chilean diplomat, a Spanish […]
How private Chinese companies are winning in Africa, by Anzetse Were
Full text below. First published on Published April 15, 2022, here: https://thechinaproject.com/2022/04/15/fortitude-resilience-and-ability-how-private-chinese-companies-are-winning-in-africa/ Africa-China economic relations are dominated by state-to-state interactions, but Chinese private companies are making a unique impact on the continent’s economic transformation. Here’s how. Economic relations […]
Multipolarity advances: China, Iran ‘old friends’ exploring new cooperation
Full article from China Daily below, original post here https://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202302/16/WS63eda864a31057c47ebaf292.html By Wang Lei | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-02-16 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to China from Tuesday to Thursday shows Beijing and Teheran are committed to deepening political […]
The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
By Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire at The Atlantic, source here: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/ The narrative wrongfully portrays both Beijing and the developing countries it deals with. China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive […]
Sanctions, SWIFT, and China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payments System
In the wake of unpredicted sanctions levied against Russia, will China be able to advance its own efforts to challenge US dollar dominance and promote alternatives to SWIFT? While its progress has been limited to date, how might dynamics […]
China’s long war on poverty
By Carlos Martinez, Co-Editor at Friends of Socialist China. Original post here: https://socialistchina.org/2022/06/19/chinas-long-war-on-poverty/ This article by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez provides a detailed analysis of China’s ongoing war against poverty. In addition to discussing the […]
Assad, Syria and China’s New Silk Road
by Matthew Ehret. “China’s President Xi Jinping spoke with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, saying “we welcome the Syrian side’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative and Global Development Initiative” First published here: https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/12/09/assad-syria-and-chinas-new-silk-road/ Ever since Russia and […]
Iran spearheads a geopolitical sea change in West Asia
by Matthew Ehret. “While the west bangs on about Vienna talks, sanctions and military options, Iran has been quietly building a vast network of alternative solutions to cement its Asian ascent”. Original post at the Cradle here: https://thecradle.co/Article/analysis/5101 […]
Will China Suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union?
By Carlos Martinez, journal article from World Review of Political Economy, Vol 11 No 2, Summer 2020. JStor link here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.2.0189#metadata_info_tab_contents
Resource page on the Xinjiang – Uyghur propaganda scam
In recent years Washington has run a fake ‘Uyghur Genocide’ campaign, based on hopeless sources, to help demonise China. This is simply part of the ‘US in decline’ rivalry. However to understand the issue in more depth, below […]
Still Getting Your Head Around Digital Currency? So Are Central Bankers, by Jeanna Smialek
Good explanation of why the USA Federal Reserve will NOT take the lead in CBDCs and why China’s Digital Yuan will become important. From NYT, April 26, 2021, full text below and link here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/business/economy/fed-digital-currency.html America’s Federal Reserve […]
Strategic cooperation of emerging powers: beyond regional instability, towards a new global order
A West Asian perspective by Amir Mohammad Esmaeili, April 2021, full text below, original post here: https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/459505/Strategic-cooperation-of-emerging-powers-Beyond-regional-instability Homme Malade de l’Europe was eventually divided by the Allied Powers at the end of World War I. The Ottoman Empire, […]
Lawrence Wilkerson: the long war in Afghanistan could go on for decades, target is now China
Former U.S. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson interviewed by Aaron Mate in 2017. PDF below, original post here: https://www.newsclick.in/wilkerson-afghanistan-longest-us-war-will-go-decades
‘Karl Marx in Wuhan: how Chinese socialism is defeating COVID-19’, by Carlos Martinez
Reproduced from International Critical Thought, April 2020, Vol 10, No 2, PDF below and online here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21598282.2020.1779504
Caught in the US-China Thucydides Trap: What are Australia’s options?
by Jay Tharappel The rise of China has prompted many US geostrategic thinkers over the past decade to talk about the degree to which another ‘world war’ is inevitable, including most recently Henry Kissinger, who warned that if […]
The China and Africa Connection U.S. Imperialism Does Not Want You to Know About, by Danny Haiphong
The US sows hysteria about China because Washington can no longer dictate global affairs without any significant challenge. AFRICOM’s growth is aligned with the ‘pivot to Asia’. Full article here: https://www.blackagendareport.com/china-and-africa-connection-us-imperialism-does-not-want-you-know-about?page=1
Iran-Russia-China alliance transforming global balance of power: Naqqash
Transcription by Middle East Observer of a July 2020 interview with Lebanese Resistance analyst Anees Naqqash. Full text below, original post here: http://middleeastobserver.net/iran-russia-china-alliance-transforming-global-balance-of-power-naqqash/ Description: During a televised political talk show, senior Lebanese political analyst Anees Naqqash commented on […]
A Web of Deceit: Amnesty International in Hong Kong, by Laura Ruggeri
How Amnesty International has become embedded in Washington’s campaign against China, through interventions in the politics of Hong Kong. 14 Aug 2020. Laura Ruggeri is an Italian national and resident of Hong Kong. In June 2018 five law […]
Trump’s ‘new opium war’ against China, Global Times
‘Trump’s Armistice Demands: the trade war against China has entered fever pitch’. This article is from Eddie Cheong, translation of an article from the Global Times written in Chinese, August 2020 The White House has announced that if […]
China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with US-funded ‘experts’, by Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal
Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz. Full PDF […]
Uyghur Muslim Ethnic Separatism in Xinjiang, China, Elizabeth Van Wie Davis
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii, January 2008 “Uyghur Muslim violence in Xinjiang, China, has two justifications—ethnic separatism and religious rhetoric. The Uyghurs, who reside throughout the immediate region, are the largest Turkic ethnic group living in Xinjiang […]
How fake images of Uighur persecution are hurting their cause, by Marie Genries
“Numerous videos that claim to show members of China’s Uighur Muslim minority being mistreated, arrested and tortured have been circulating on social media over the past few weeks. Although there is proof that the Chinese government is persecuting […]
This wave of anti-China feeling masks the west’s own Covid-19 failures, by Richard Horton
“The threat of coronavirus should kindle global cooperation, not a new cold war.” The Guardian, full article below, original post here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/03/covid-19-cold-war-china-western-governments-international-peace “From the very beginning of this pandemic, legitimate questions have been asked about what Chinese authorities […]
‘Our ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran failed — unless the goal was to help China’, Washington Post
A rebuke to the Trump regime, from the WP Editorial Board. July 21, 2020. Original post here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/our-maximum-pressure-on-iran-failed–unless-the-goal-was-to-help-china/2020/07/20/484ae90a-c847-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html THE TRUMP administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran has manifestly failed to achieve either its stated or unstated aims: It […]