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  • The Proof is in the Pudding: A Few Comments on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

    Anyone interested in socialism in the twenty-first century must take into account what is happening in China seriously. It’s future economic supremacy will either shape global capitalism, which socialists worldwide will have to respond to or the future of socialism will be determined by China’s planned transformation toward a socialist economy          […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • A Walk Along the Baiyangdian Lake in the Xiong’an New Area

    Detail of: Ye Wulin (China), 红星颂 (Ode to the Red Star), 2015. Seventy-five years ago, on 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong (1893–1976) announced the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It is important to note that the Communist Party of China (CPC) did not name the new state the Socialist Republic, but instead […]

  • Obstacles to the Peaceful Reintegration of Taiwan into the People’s Republic of China

    Obstacles to the Peaceful Reintegration of Taiwan into the People’s Republic of China

    1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a […]

  • The Rice Bowl of the Chinese People Is Held Firmly in Their Hands

    The Rice Bowl of the Chinese People Is Held Firmly in Their Hands

    Fan Wennan (China), 中国 2098: 太阳照常升起 (‘China 2098: The Sun Rises Just the Same’), 2019–2022. At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), member states decided to replace the Millennium Development Goals (established in 2000) with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The first SDG was to ‘end poverty in […]

  • The Latest NYT’s Hit Piece on China Is from Thomas Friedman

    Thanks to Thomas Friedman’s relentless service as a mouthpiece for US empire and capital, he’s permitted to continuously churn out his pseudo-thought piece every week. — Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work Thomas Friedman, a self-professed “liberal,” is the New York Times most widely read columnist and its most influential flak for […]

  • Ideology, Autocracy, and Dystopia

    Ideology, Autocracy, and Dystopia

    The title of this acutely perceptive memoir is perhaps misleading: the American reader has come to expect lurid, “tell-all” biographies which spare no graphic details of the subject’s debaucheries and scandals. Some such unsavory details are of course revealed, but the author–Mao’s personal physician for the remaining 22 years of Mao’s life (1954-1976)–had a more […]

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