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China pulls itself out of poverty 100 years into its revolution

July 2, 2021 Vijay Prashad and John Ross
On February 25, 2021, China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people had pulled its people out of poverty as it is defined internationally. Since 1981, 853 million Chinese people have lifted themselves out of poverty thanks […]
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Happy birthday to China’s Communist Party!

July 1, 2021 Stephen Millies
The Chinese Communist Party was born a century ago on July 1, 1921. Several dozen courageous revolutionaries came to Shanghai to start building a party that led China out of its misery. At that time, […]
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Were new attacks on China created in a Trump lab?

May 30, 2021 Scott Scheffer
May 29 — This week the level of attacks on China regarding its success against COVID-19 has been elevated to a fever pitch. The Biden administration has all the major U.S. media in tow.  A […]
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The U.S.’s New Cold War in China’s Xinjiang region

April 29, 2021 Vijay Prashad and Jie Xiong
“Kashgar is a key location for the land and sea interface of the Belt and Road, connecting not only westward to West Asia, Europe, the Red Sea, and Africa, but also southward to the Indian […]
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China-Iran agreement to bust U.S. economic sanctions

April 27, 2021 Scott Scheffer
  The People’s Republic of China and Iran have announced an agreement that is a direct challenge to the punishing U.S. sanctions against Iran and strikes back against the economic war on China.  China will […]
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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 […]