Tag: China

  • The World’s Richest People are Chinese, not Americans

    The World’s Richest People are Chinese, not Americans

    Four years after defeating the US in battle, in 1955, Mao told colleagues, “If we can’t overtake America in 100 years we don’t deserve to exist. We should be wiped off the face of the earth”. Less than seventy years later, China overtook America. Today, Chinese are much richer than their American and European counterparts, […]

  • Might May Rule the Moment, but Right Prevails Forever

    Might May Rule the Moment, but Right Prevails Forever

    Zainul Abedin (Bangladesh), Untitled, 1944. On 28 November 1924, Sun Yat-sen delivered a speech in Kobe, Japan titled China and Japan: Natural Friends, Unnatural Enemies. Here, he outlined his progressive vision for Pan-Asianism – a world where the ‘rule of right’ would triumph over the ‘rule of might’, where the multitudes of oppressed peoples in […]

  • Undeniable Proof: How 1945 Taiwan Surrender Ceremony Smashes “Independence” Myths

    This year marks the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and #WWII. Eighty years ago, Japan’s surrender ceremony took place in Taipei. Behind it, a few telling details completely shatter the narrative of “historical nihilism”… all pointing to one undeniable fact: #Taiwan has always been part of […]

  • Trump’s Tariffs against Latin America

    President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order about the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, August 5, 2025 Trump’s threat of imposing a crippling 50 per cent tariff on all Brazilian imports to the United […]

  • The Power of Future Thinking

    The Power of Future Thinking

    In conversation about the global future with with Professor Zhang WeiWei of Fudan University — one of the most respected, outspoken and productive Chinese social science scholars. It is of paramount attention that we focus on the future – on the world that can be and develop to benefit humankind, including how we can strengthen the […]

  • Why Western Hegemony is Over

     The tariff truce between China and the United States is set to end in August. What do you forecast will happen after that? And what will happen to trade relations between China and the US for the rest of US President Donald Trump’s second term? The United States learned that it can’t impose its will on China. The rare earths […]

  • Revolutionary Third World Leaders Praise China’s World Role

    China is a modern superpower, as is the US, but a qualitatively different superpower. The US uses military aggression, coups, and sanctions to impose US corporate interests worldwide. China is a peaceful power that respects national sovereignty, mutual development, and non-interference.  Despite opposing imperialism, a tendency in the Western left is to recycle Western anti-China […]

  • Does China have an Internationalist Foreign Policy?

    A number of observant commentators have raised questions about Peoples’ China’s Belt and Road Initiative and more broadly, the foreign policy of the PRC. Reliable left observers like Ann Garrison, writing in Black Agenda Report, have voiced concerns about Chinese investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, based on Siddharth Kara’s book, Cobalt Red, […]

  • Trump’s Absurd War on Education

    The US is at war. It has always been at war. Whether a world war, a proxy conflict, an armed intervention, a psyop, or a regime change mission, the United States has not enjoyed a single moment of true, unadulterated peace. And it’s not just at war with nations abroad. The US is also at […]

  • Palestine and the Conscience of China

    Palestine and the Conscience of China

    Illustration by Fourate Chahal El Rekaby, tni [A] lot of people across the global majority are asking the extremely serious question: why the BRICS, and especially why Russia and China, are not doing more than what they’re doing on behalf of Palestine and to defend Palestine. This is an extremely serious question and it’s not […]

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