China | Online Blog | USA
Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
Trying to simply recreate a green equivalent of our present world, vehicle by vehicle, could prove but another formula for disaster.
Why Is the Great Project of Ecological Civilization Specific to China?
We don’t know if China will succeed in overcoming its immense ecological contradictions. But rather than worrying about China’s struggle to create an ecological civilization, I worry with it, and with the struggles of the Chinese people as a whole.
China | Imperialism | Online Blog | Racism | Russia
Black King of Songs
Chinese broadcasters have several times aired shows that feature Paul Robeson (1898-1976), one of the most popular African American singers and actors of his era and a well-known civil rights activist. It’s part of the history that connects Black internationalism with the experiences of Chinese people.
Surviving Through Community Building in Catastrophic Times
Over the last twenty years, China has gained recognition for its efforts to reduce pollution and remediate the effects of industrialization within its borders. In another effort towards this, communities are returning to grassroots projects that present an alternative to unchecked globalization.
Afghanistan | China | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Afghanistan and Xinjiang
I find the best way to understand what happened in Xinjiang is to contrast it with Afghanistan. Why? Because they’re neighboring regions that faced very similar problems to which very different solutions were applied, with ultimately very different outcomes.
China | Economy | Online Blog
Is China Headed for a Crash?
Once again, Western ‘experts’ are predicting a financial crash in China. How much truth is there in this latest batch of critiques on China’s economic progress?
China | COVID19 | Online Blog
Life on Lockdown in China
Peter Hessler penned this article after having spent 45 days in lockdown in the province of Chengdu in China in February-March 2020. It was published in the ‘New Yorker’ on March 30, 2020.
China | Economy | Online Blog
How China Strengthened Food Security and Fought Poverty with State-Funded Cooperatives
Beijing is showing the world how to strengthen food sovereignty, and simultaneously fight poverty, with a multi-pronged approach that combines state-funded agricultural cooperatives, stockpiling of nonperishable staples, a crackdown on waste, and government investment in new technologies.
Shanghai Reopens After Suppressing COVID: A Triumph for Science and Public Health
China’s largest city, Shanghai, largely reopened Wednesday morning after a two-month lockdown that successfully beat back an outbreak of the virulent Omicron BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19. The event was a triumph of public health mobilization.
Capitalism | China | COVID19 | Online Blog
Finance Capital Demands an End to Shanghai’s Lockdown and China’s Zero-COVID Policy
Financial Times, the leading international business newspaper, has in a statement denounced lockdowns and all other public health measures that impinge on the production of profits but have saved millions of lives in China.