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U.S.-Japan statement threatens China with nuclear weapons

April 18, 2021 Gary Wilson
On April 16, U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the first foreign leader to visit the Biden White House, issued a joint statement lashing out at China. The statement, which covers […]
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Why Xinjiang is emerging as the epicenter of the U.S. cold war on China

April 17, 2021 Vijay Prashad and Jie Xiong
On March 22, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized sanctions against Wang Junzheng, the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo, director of the […]
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Biden continues the U.S. conflict with China through the Quad

March 19, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On March 12, the heads of government of four countries, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and the United States President Joe Biden, met for a virtual meeting […]
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The real reason for U.S. attacks on China: global class struggle

March 18, 2021 Scott Scheffer
As the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign wound down, there was a perception held by many that a Biden win would mean a more diplomatic international approach by the new administration.  But that presumption didn’t consider […]
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China’s ‘Red Detachment of Women’ advances into 21st century

February 8, 2021 Tings Chak
On the eve of the Communist Party of China’s centenary in July 2021, the story of the country’s first women’s military brigade in the 1930s continues to find life in popular culture and the imagination […]
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U.S. war drive against China fuels ‘Mulan’ boycott

October 4, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
When the Walt Disney Company released its live-action remake of “Mulan,” the bourgeois media establishment responded with indignation and hand-wringing. This spread all the way to the U.S. Congress and the Trump administration. Members of […]
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Trump, China, TikTok, Tulsa. Free speech?

August 25, 2020 Jasmine Johnson
On Aug. 5, President Donald Trump announced that he’s planning on banning TikTok due to “security risks” and the fact that the app collects data of the users. There are lots of people happy (mostly […]
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The U.S. tech war on China and the 5G battlefield

August 2, 2020 Prabir Purkayastha
The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its 5-Eyes partners and North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to […]
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Marines retool for war on China

June 16, 2020 Scott Scheffer
As the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. approaches 120,000, the Trump administration is relying heavily on anti-China propaganda — including wild accusations, right-wing conspiracy theories and racist anti-Asian rhetoric that greenlit physical attacks and […]
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Marxism and the social character of China

April 2, 2020 Fred Goldstein
From a June 9, 2013, talk by Fred Goldstein at the Left Forum, a yearly event in New York City. The talk was focused on socialism and China in the wake of the Great Recession […]