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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
This interview focuses on the impact of US sanctions and Russian countersanctions on the position of the dollar and US economic power.
A look at what lies behind China’s recent economic policy pronouncements – and to what extent they can be considered to be progressive.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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