Asia Pivot

Your Mind Is A Battlefield: Decolonize It To Prevent Global Catastrophe!

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, American Exceptionalism, Anti-Imperialism, Asia Pivot, Capitalism, Censorship and Propaganda, China, Cold War, Economic Blockade, Racism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Taiwan, Trade Wars, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Visions of a Future

by K.J. Noh, published on Popular Resistance, October 2, 2024 The rise of China is one of the greatest success stories in the history of human civilization. Talk delivered for the event “Changes Not Seen in a Century: 75th Anniversary of Founding of PRC”. Friends, Colleagues, Comrades, It’s a great honor for me to join you in this extraordinary, historical moment of[…]

Mapping the Parallels of US Conflict: From Vietnam to the War on China

June 3, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Asia Pivot, China, Militarism, Vietnam

by Megan Russell, May 31, 2024 On August 4th, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood in front of the American public and stated, “We Americans know, as do others though some may forget, the risk of spreading conflict. […] I shall immediately request Congress to pass a resolution to make it clear that our government is united in its determination[…]

War Looks Just as War Looks: Dismal and Ugly

November 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, Asia Pivot, Imperialism, Korea, Middle East Wars, Neocolonialism, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy

by Vijay Prashad, published on The Tricontinental Institute, November 2, 2023 It is impossible to look away from what the Israeli government is doing to Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. Waves of Israeli aircraft pummel Gaza, destroying communications networks and thereby preventing families from reaching each other, journalists from reporting on the destruction, and[…]

Camp David Summit Outlines Military Alliance Against China

September 1, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, Asia Pivot, Japan, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 22, 2023 U.S. war threats against China heightened this week. On Aug. 18, President Joe Biden framed an aggressive military alliance, with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dutifully attending, at an ominous summit at Camp David. This trilateral military pact of the United States, South[…]

G7 in Hiroshima: a War Summit

June 11, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, Asia Pivot

by Jorge Cadima, published on Workers World, May 29, 2023 Living in the illusion of past domination, the seven countries known as the G7 insist on trying to convey the idea that they are the seven largest economies in the world. But the reality is not what it used to be. According to the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook[…]

Protests Erupt Against U.S. Military Exercises and Expansion of U.S. Military Footprint in The Philippines

May 7, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, Asia Pivot, China, Japan, Taiwan, The Philippines, U.S. Aggression

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, May 2, 2023 Filipinos Don’t Want to Be Used as a “Footstool for American Power Projection and Provocation” Says Filipino Peace Activist This past month, more than 3,000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers participated in a three-week live-fire military exercise called Balikatan, which included a drill to blow up a mock Chinese warship in[…]

Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China

April 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia Pivot, China, Taiwan

by Sara Flounders, published in CovertAction Magazine, April 27, 2023 While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. The military and economic threats on both China and Russia are a desperate bid to quash the emergence[…]

U.S. Uses Taiwan As a Pawn in War For China

April 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia Pivot, Censorship and Propaganda, China, Global Economics, Japan, Taiwan, The Philippines

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, April 4, 2023 While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. The military and economic threats on both China and Russia are a desperate bid to quash the emergence[…]

US War Planners Court China’s Neighbors. What Would Buddha Say?

April 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, Asia Pivot, Belt and Road, China, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, US Foreign Bases

by Wei Yu and Marcy Winograd, April 4, 2023 The US continues to seek new asing agreements with small countries in the Far East, to pursue their reckless illegal attempts to “contain” China. [jb] As the Pentagon steps up its war games in the Asia Pacific, Defense News reports the US Army has a logistical problem with waging a future[…]

China, COVID Origins and War Propaganda

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Asia Pivot, Bioweapons, China, Hybrid Warfare, Propaganda, Public Health, Weaponized Information

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 15, 2023 A human cause of covid-19 is possible, but anti-China rhetoric is war propaganda, not scientific evidence. “I was the first governor to take action to ban Tik Tok here in our state and we saw over two dozen different states take action and congress after that. So we’re thankful[…]