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Okinawa: A Bastion for Peace?
Recently, in Taiwan, the government unveiled its first home-built submarine. In Japan, the government will upgrade civilian airports and seaports to dual military use in preparation for conflict in...
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Why We Need to Disarm the Anti-China Discourse
From racist tweets to rising hate crimes, the media’s anti-China propaganda has created a climate of aggression. Two weeks ago, a man drove a car into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, yelling...
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Geopolitics, The Imperial System and Socialist Anti-Imperialism
Claudio Katz is a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a member of Economists of the Left. He is also the author of various articles and books on contemporary...
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US-China Tensions Have Erased Any Space for Struggle
Youngsu Won is a socialist and coordinator of the International Forum in South Korea. Speaking to Federico Fuentes, from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, he discusses how rising...
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U.S.-China Extinction-Level Event Narrowly Averted
We humans came within ten feet of extinction on October 24. That’s when World War III almost erupted due to a near collision between American and Chinese warplanes over the South China Sea. U.S....
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Comparing How the West and China Offer Loans to Developing Countries
In October 2023, amid celebrations commemorating the 10th anniversary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Beijing, Pakistan and Chinese leaders signed a multibillion-dollar deal for a railway...
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The US and China Should Push for an Ambitious Plastics Treaty
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in California this week in their first meeting in person in over a year. The two countries released a joint climate statement this week and...
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‘Opposing US Militarisation in The Asia-Pacific Should Not Mean Remaining...
Au Loong-Yu is a long-time Hong Kong labour rights and political activist. Author of China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility and Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China, Au now...
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Kurt Campbell: A China Warmonger in Diplomat Clothes
U.S. President Joe Biden has tapped Kurt Campbell, his administration’s National Security Council Asia coordinator, for deputy secretary of state. If the Senate confirms Campbell, he’ll be the latest...
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Myanmar’s Instability Deepens as the World Watches Silently
Myanmar’s stability has eroded significantly since the 2021 military coup. But the coordinated attack by multiple separatist and pro-democracy groups in October and November 2023 has seen military...
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Can the US and China Keep the Peace in 2024?
This hasn’t exactly been a year of good news when it comes to our war-torn, beleaguered planet, but on November 15, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping took one small step back...
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2023 in the US: Toxic Trains, Explosive Strikes & Genocide Joe
As 2023 comes to a close, Amanda Yee, a Journalist and the Managing Editor of Liberation News, joins the show to wrap up the biggest US domestic stories of the year. Amanda, Rania Khalek and Eugene...
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The New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first time, our leaders had ordered and succeeded in creating a military...
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Unjust Wars and a Just Peace
The three major wars or conflicts that are ongoing today demonstrate the volatility of the intersection between the local and the global. In the Hamas-Israeli conflict, we see how the maintenance of...
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Hyperimperialism: US-NATO’s Dangerous and Decadent New Stage, w/ Vijay Prashad
What is this new era of “Hyperimperialism” for the US/NATO Empire? Where do Gaza, Ukraine, and the Cold War on China fit in? How is the decline of Global North hegemony shifting the geopolitical...
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TikTok Exposed Youth to Genocide in Gaza — Is That Why Electeds Want It Banned?
On March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act by an overwhelming 352 to 65 margin. If legislated, it would ban the...
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US vs. China: Who Really Stands for Peace?
Thousands of innocent civilians are dying– men, women, children– being bombed to death as they sit in their homes. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men have been unwillingly drafted into the...
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Alliance Politics in East Asia: More Security or Less?
The Biden-Kishida Summit The best thing about diplomacy between government leaders is that it may ease tensions. The worst thing is that it doesn’t resolve the disputes between them, making matters...
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How the US is Scrambling to Stop Ukraine Peace Plan by China & Brazil w/...
While world leaders prepare to convene in Switzerland for a “peace summit” ostensibly called to advance peace in Ukraine despite excluding Russia from the meeting, Brazil and China have proposed an...
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West’s Ukraine Summit Failed: Global South Rejected Pro-War ‘Peace Conference’
The Western powers held a conference in Switzerland in June in an attempt to gain more international support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. The vast majority of the world population, in the Global...
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China Just Cured a Patient’s Diabetes for the First Time. Why Haven’t You...
China just cured a patient’s Type 2 Diabetes for the first time ever. So why has the mainstream media been completely silent about it? Kei Pritsker explains how the ruling class’s anti-China crusade is...
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Pentagon’s Outrageous Anti-China Operation Threatened Lives in the Philippines
A recent Reuters investigation uncovered a scandalous Pentagon operation that sought to discredit the Chinese Sinovac vaccine and sow distrust among the population in the Philippines towards China....
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Panic, Paranoia, and Hypocrisy During China-Focused Congressional Hearings
On June 26th, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability sat down for a Congressional Hearing titled, “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare.” This was one of many...
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NATO Accelerates Its Conflict With China
At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, the focus was on Ukraine. In the Washington Declaration, the NATO leaders wrote, “Ukraine’s future is in NATO.” Ukraine formally...
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The Beijing Declaration and Chinese Diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian...
Signed on July 25, 2024, the Beijing Declaration marks a historic moment for Palestinian reconciliation. For the first time, a broad spectrum of Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, have...
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Back To The White Elephants – The West’s New Development Strategy in Africa
‘Europe’s new external investment strategy needs to reconnect with historical business models we are going back to white elephants of 1970s – because that’s what partners want. – G7 official in a...
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U.S. and China — Why Not a Deal?
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total wealth is growing. Such total growth enables all who...
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How the Israeli Attack on Iran Could Seed a New World War
If you ask the average citizen of any country whether their leaders should start wars, almost all would give a resounding “No.” The public, overall, opposes war, but tolerates leaders who prioritize...
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In Fencing China Out, Is Washington Fencing Itself In?
As Washington doubles down on its semiconductor embargoes, a troubling paradox emerges: in trying to stymie China’s technological advances, the United States might just be fencing itself in. Each...
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AI Goes to War
On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the arms industry’s biggest...
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