Among other things, if the United States pressured Burma it would be at odd with India and China, both of which trade with Burma. Once again, a nascent nuclear-weapons program is used as an implement with which to bludgeon states when it serves our purpose such as Iran. But when dealing with it puts the United States at odd with states that it doesn't wish to alienate (further, in the case of China), it's all too willing to turn a blind eye to its nuclear program. Burma no doubt banks on that." Russ Wellen 25 oktober
"Hur kunde så mycket kapital ackumuleras i Kina att det räckte till att förutom att lyfta drygt 300 miljoner människor ur fattigdom till medelklasstillvaro, även finansiera det amerikanska budgetunderskottet (och därmed krigen i Irak och Afghanistan)? "
Henrik Ohlsson i Forum Eurasien 1/11 (?) Great Game 2.0 – rysk offensiv i Centralasien Bildtext: Putin vill utöka Rysslands ekonomiska inflytelsesfär i flera steg. Tullunionen som nyligen ingåtts mellan Ryssland, Vitryssland och Kazakstan (röd markering) utvecklas till en en frihandelszon. I nästa led bjuds även fler OSS-länder in till samarbetet, i första hand Kirgizistan och Tadzjikistan (...) som redan ingår i EurAsEc. " "Ryssland har även skapat ekonomiska och militära samarbeten med Kina inom ramen SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), som omfattar ungefär samma länder som CSTO och EurAsEc med den skillnaden att även Kina ingår. Dessa samarbeten kan till stor del ses som ett försök att skapa en motvikt till USA och NATO. Men som ofta påpekats föreligger det i grunden en konkurrenssituation också mellan SCO:s två stormakter. Kanske kommer denna konflikt att skärpas och tydliggöras under Putins kommande presidenttid."
By John Feffer, "Word Beat" Editorial , May 10, 2011. "perhaps the only country in the world that has benefited from the last decade of war against al-Qaeda is China, and it has benefitted big time. Beijing has watched the United States spend more than $
Feffer Nov 26, 2010. "China's international influence is measured not only by its presence – in the World Bank, on the Forbes list – but also by its absence. Obama recently toured Asia in a sweeping arc around China's borders to India, Indonesia, South Ko
Nyhet 29.12.2009: "Den brittiska medborgaren Akmal Shaikh blev under morgonen den första europé som avrättats i Kina på över 50 år. Shaikh arresterades i september 2007 då han fösökte smuggla nästan 4 kilo heroin till Urumqi, den autonoma regionen Xinjian
En kinesisk solskenshistoria. Thursday, October 12, 2006 By Andrew Batson in Wuxi, China, The Wall Street Journal. "When he arrived in Australia 18 years ago as a physics student, Shi Zhengrong scraped by on a meager stipend from the Chinese government t
Si le filtrage du moteur Google.cn était un arrangement d’ordre pratique avec un pouvoir qui entend lutter contre le free flow of information, Google a fini par reconnaître que les exigences du gouvernement chinois entraient de manière fondamentale en con
edited by Charles Ganske and authored by Yuri Mamchur, a Russian national, serves as Director of Discovery Institute's Real Russia Project, founded 2005.
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity Lester R. Brown Chapter 9. China and the Soybean Challenge "The main soybean producers today, in round numbers, are the United States at 80 million tons, Brazil at 70 million tons, and Argentina at 45 million tons. Together they account for over four fifths of world soybean production. China is a distant fourth at a mere 14 million tons. For six decades, the United States was both the leading producer and exporter of soybeans, but in 2011 Brazil’s exports narrowly eclipsed those from the United States. "
the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists made a splash in the financial media in April 2013 when it disclosed a trove of secret documents ...in the aftermath of the Cyprus deposit confiscation ... the ICIJ is back in the spotlight once again, this time revealing "nearly 22,000 tax haven clients from Hong Kong and mainland China."
By Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy (1996-1998, 2006-2008) and former President of the European Union Commission (1999-2004), and David Gosset , Director, Academia Sinica Europaea at China Europe International Business School
Taking lessons from a historical pattern called "Thucydides's Trap," political scientist Graham Allison shows why a rising China and a dominant United States...
by Mary Beaudoin
November 21, 2019 · by Rise Up Times · in capitalist system, International, manufacturing consent, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy · 2 Comments
But it’s not just the British that protesters appealed to for support. American flags were also prominent in street protests. The leader of the Hong Kong activist organization Demosistō, Joshua Wong, called for outside intervention by the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan to “liberate Hong Kong.”
Reportage från Rongcheng. Orwellian? "The party is using both coercion and cooperation to integrate the scheme into people’s lives and have it bring benefits to them. “To me, that’s what makes it Orwellian,” says Hoffman of IISS. The social credit system provides incentives for people to not want to be on a blacklist. “It’s a preemptive way of shaping the way people think and shaping the way people act,” she says. And to the extent that people believe they can benefit socially and economically from the Communist Party staying in power, the system is working."
"I began writing my novel Soul Mountain to dispel my inner loneliness at the very time when works I had written with rigorous self-censorship had been banned. Soul Mountain was written for myself and without the hope that it would be published."
The Ukraine – a decisive transfer of the balance of power from west to east
By Cameron Leckie
Mar 30, 2022
The 2022 Russo-Ukraine is also a proxy war between Russia and the Western world. We should be prepared for a decisive transfer of the balance of power from West to East.
Tiwary says in his book, Ramachandaran creates a counter-current, especially when the prevalent India-China discourse is set within the binaries of a zero-sum game
Age of Decline? 50,000 manuscripts, scrolls, booklets and paintings on silk, hemp and paper were found literally stuffed into it.
One of the manuscripts was the Diamond Sutra, the world's earliest dated, printed book (868).1
It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian "old friend of China" Henry Kissinger in Beijing.
Luttwak vs Kissinger (and Brzezinsky)
Presentation of Surveillance StateInside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control Author: Josh Chin and Liza Lin; read by Brian Nishii
The authors of Surveillance State" discuss what the West misunderstands about Chinese state control and whether the invasive trajectory of surveillance tech can still be reversed.
the old social contract, which promised better returns from an economy steered by an authoritarian government, is strained—and a new one is needed.
As Chin and Lin observe, the Chinese government is now proposing that by collecting every Chinese citizen’s data extensively, it can find out what the people want (without giving them votes) and build a society that meets their needs.
Reuters 23.2.2023. US News is a recognized leader in college, grad school, hospital, mutual fund, and car rankings. Track elected officials, research health conditions, and find news you can use in politics, business, health, and education.
Asked about prospects for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Zelenskiy told a news briefing in Kyiv: "We would like to meet with China."
"This is in the interests of Ukraine today," he told the joint briefing with visiting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
Britannica : Qin Shi Huang, also called Shihuangdi, Wade-Giles romanization Shih-huang-ti, personal name (xingming) Zhao Zheng or Ying Zheng, (born c. 259 bce, Qin state, northwestern China—died 210 bce, Hebei), emperor (reigned 221–210 bce) of the Qin dynasty (221–207 bce) and creator of the first unified Chinese empire (which collapsed, however, less than four years after his death).
by Michael Keane, Feb 1 2020. China is intent on consolidating a digital civilization; which has widespread implications for industry, governance, population management, and international relations.
by Luo Weiteng , China Daily 10 Jul 2020
Each day for nine months, Bi Fang got up at the crack of dawn and spent three hours writing the next chapter of her wuxia novel before making a mad dash off to work.
Oct 2020
According to market survey organization iiMedia's report, in 2019 there were about 1,000 newly opened study lounges nationwide and the number of paid users soared from 850,000 in 2018 to 2.3 million in 2019. No wonder some media outlets called 2019 the "first year" of study lounge startups.
The sector's rapid growth last year could be attributed to the increasing pressure of employment and shortage of public facilities such as public libraries. According to the 2019 Statistical Bulletin of Culture and Tourism Development of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, there are 3,196 public libraries nationwide, meaning more than 438,000 people sharing one public library.
Pepe Escobar 20 May 2014: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and China's President Xi Jinping attend an agreement signing ceremony during a bilateral meeting at Xijiao State Guest house ahead of the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Shanghai on May 20, 2014
Liu Xiaobo the 2010 Peace Nobel Candidate WIKIPEDIA: "Liu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波) (born 28 December 1955)[1] is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist single-party rule.[2] He is currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in Jinzhou, Liaoning."
TheGuardian 17 April 'What is certain is that Barack Obama's rapacious coup in Ukraine has ignited a civil war and Vladimir Putin is being lured into a trap.' On 23 April, Obama will begin a tour of Asia to promote his "pivot" to China. The aim is to convince his "allies" in the region, principally Japan, to rearm and prepare for the possibility of war with China. By 2020, almost two-thirds of all US naval forces in the world will be transferred to the Asia-Pacific area. This is the greatest military concentration in that vast region since the second world war.
by Xinhua writer Ming Jinwei 2014-0307: "Second, they underestimated Russia's will to protect its core interests in Ukraine. Russia may no longer be interested in competing for global preeminence with the West, but when it comes to cleaning a mess the West created in the country's backyard, Russian leaders once again proved their credibility and shrewdness in planning and executing effective counter moves."
Föredrag i Arbetarrörelsens tankesmedja 6 februari 2010: Kina är på väg att bli störst och världsledande på område efter område. Hur gick det till och vad kommer att hända? Medverkande: Klas Eklund, författare och ekonom, talar utifrån sin bok Kina – den nygamla supermakten.