How Beijing’s Severe Pollution Turned into Clear Blue Skies Over a Few Years
It was no magic wand. The authorities took several tough steps over the years to achieve this miracle.
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Communal Governance and Production in Rural China Today
The authors elucidate the history of China’s People’s Communes as told through the lens of three present-day rural villages. In these villages, they observe the effects of the project’s dismantling and diminishing collective ownership and land management, with the conclusion that a return to collectivism is vital for carrying forward the socialist project.
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China’s Arms Control White Paper Reconfigures Global Security Governance
China’s newly released White Paper, “China’s Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation in the New Era,” is not simply a catalogue of policies. It is a strategic text that reveals how Beijing intends to shape the governance of the domains that will define global security in the decades ahead.
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China | Indian Politics | Online Blog | USA
How CIA Secretly Triggered Sino–Indian War
From October 20 to November 21, 1962, a little-remembered conflict raged between China and India. A detailed academic investigation, ignored by the mainstream media, exposes how the war was a deliberate product of clandestine CIA meddling, specifically intended to further Anglo-American interests regionally.
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Capitalism | China | Online Blog | Socialism
Exploring the Chinese Revolution Today
The author reflects on the evolution of her intellectual political relationship to China, a journey that began with limited knowledge of a seemingly far-away land and ends with a nuanced understanding grounded in her on-the-ground experiences as a visiting professor at Peking University.
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China | Online Blog | USA
BRICS on the WTO, IMF, WB and De-Dollarisation
The BRICS countries support the preservation of the existing international financial architecture, with the IMF and the World Bank at its core, and the international trade system (WTO, free trade agreements, etc).
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China | Climate Change | Economy | Environment | Online Blog
China Breaks the Link Between Economic Development and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
This article gives an overview of the progress made by China in recent years with regard to clean energy, and poses the question: why is it that China, rather than the advanced capitalist countries, has emerged as the world’s only ‘green superpower’?
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China | India | Online Blog | USA
Trump Divorces India; Modi and Xi Break the Ice – 4 Articles
‘Honeymoon Over: Trump Divorces India’; ‘Washington’s Nightmare: Modi and Xi Break the Ice’; ‘A Reset in India-China Ties?’; and: ‘A Productive Visit: On India-China Ties’.
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A Black Hole in Collective Memory: China and WWII
Beijing’s commemoration is a bold rebuttal to the West’s monopolization of WWII memory. Also: An extract from: ‘They Shall Not Pass: Our Call Against Fascism’.
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The Experience of Nanjie Village and the Possibilities of Socialist Development in Contemporary China: Successes of the Collective Economy Under Reform and Opening-Up
The collective village of Nanjie is presented as a successful example in China. But there are several problems with this model: the village accepts foreign capital participation for financing, and employs peasant labor from other regions – many call it ‘collective capitalism’.
