China

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

When the White House quietly approved renewed exports of Nvidia’s H200 AI accelerators to China — with a 25% fee attached — it marked more than a policy adjustment. It marked the effective collapse of […]