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Trump welcomes Xi with bombers overhead
The United States government gave Xi Jinping a 21-gun salute at Joint Base Andrews on Sept. 23 and sent two B-1B bombers and a dozen fighters over his head as the national anthem ended. At […]
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Fifty years after Mao’s death: the Cultural Revolution and the communes
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died in Beijing at the age of 82. Mao had led the Chinese Communist Party through decades of revolutionary struggle and headed the 1949 revolution that […]
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Slander over solidarity: the BBC reports a Himalayan disaster
On Aug. 26, a glacier collapsed high on the Nepali side of the Himalayan range, sending a wall of ice, rock, mud and water down the river valleys straddling the border between Nepal and the […]
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China puts gig-app algorithms on the bargaining table
On Sept. 6, 2024, a 55-year-old delivery rider identified by the surname Yuan was found unconscious on his electric scooter outside a residential complex in Hangzhou. He had been lying there for hours before anyone […]
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In China, AI is no excuse to fire workers
The day before International Workers’ Day, a court in China sent a clear message to employers: artificial intelligence is not a license to throw workers away. On April 30, the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court in […]
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Trump goes to Beijing as Washington faces a changed world
President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on May 13 ahead of two days of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping — the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to China since Trump’s last trip […]
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China’s labor law says a job is a right — even in the age of AI
In the early 1980s, as the Reagan administration’s assault on labor accelerated and plant closures gutted the industrial Midwest, a grassroots campaign put forward a demand that U.S. ruling-class politicians dismissed as utopian: a job […]
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U.S. targets China through Iran oil blockade
The Treasury Department announced April 24 secondary sanctions against Hengli Petrochemical, a private Chinese oil refinery at the port of Dalian with daily processing capacity of about 400,000 barrels. Treasury also sanctioned approximately 40 shipping […]
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Washington bets $11 billion on Taiwan war
Washington has taken another step toward war with China. By approving the largest weapons package ever sent to Taiwan—$11.1 billion in advanced arms—the United States has intensified a long-standing campaign to militarize Chinese territory. There […]
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U.S. expands military encirclement of China across the Pacific
At a Pentagon meeting on Dec. 10, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and his counterparts from Australia and Britain pledged to move “full steam ahead” with AUKUS, a trilateral military pact through which the […]