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What’s the significance of the ‘spy balloon’ incident?

February 7, 2023 Gary Wilson
While an alleged “spy balloon” dominates the news, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was just in the Philippines to announce the expansion of U.S. bases in anticipation of war with China over Taiwan. On […]
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China’s science-based COVID response effective, Western criticism untenable

January 22, 2023 Xinhua
BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) — Through science-based adjustments to its COVID-19 response policies, China has won wide acclaim from scholars both at home and abroad. Lawrence Loh, director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability […]
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A look back on three years of China’s anti-Covid-19 fight

January 15, 2023 Tings Chak
I arrived in Shanghai, 36 hours after leaving São Paulo, a near deportation in South Africa, and a canceled connecting flight. It was March 21, 2020. In the following days, China implemented its mandatory centralized […]
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Reckless U.S. war games in South China Sea go against the current

December 23, 2022 John Parker
U.S. military exercises have come within 400 miles of China’s mainland in the South China Sea (called the South Sea in China and the East Sea in Vietnam). The provocations have increased year after year […]
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Taiwan local election shocks U.S. imperialism

December 19, 2022 Chris Fry
On November 26, local elections were held throughout Taiwan, an island that has always been part of China but since 1949 has been ruled by a fascist leadership driven out of the mainland by the […]
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Zero COVID: Don’t be deceived by U.S. reports on the protests in China

December 11, 2022 Scott Scheffer
The opportunism of the major U.S. media was on full display in late November over the protests against China’s anti-COVID lockdowns. The protests began in the Xinjiang city of Urumqi after a terrible fire took […]
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Does the U.S. chip ban on China amount to a declaration of war in the computer age?

October 30, 2022 Prabir Purkayastha
The United States has gambled big in its latest across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap China and retain its global dominance. From the slogans of globalization and “free trade” of […]
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Why Biden is unleashing a full scale chip war against China

October 28, 2022 Friends of Socialist China
The following article, by Marc Vandepitte and Jan Jonckheere, was originally published in Dutch on De Wereld Morgen. It explains the crucial significance of semiconductor chips to advances in modern technology, and goes on to describe […]
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China and Cuba: A relationship of solidarity, friendship and cooperation

October 24, 2022 Friends of Socialist China
We are very pleased to publish below an interview with Carlos Miguel Pereira Hernández, Cuba’s ambassador to China, conducted by People’s Daily and published in Chinese on 13 October. The unabridged English translation has been provided to […]
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Manufacturing consent for the containment and encirclement of China

October 18, 2022 Carlos Martinez
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. (Malcolm X) The Western media is waging a systematic and […]