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Trump and U.S. Multi-Billionaires Visit China In Futile Attempt to Resolve Capitalism’s Irreconcilable Contradictions

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, May 17, 2026 A front-page May 13, 2026 New York Times 1972 photo featured warmongering U.S. President Richard Nixon in China shaking hands with Chinese President Mao Tse-Tung during the Vietnam War. The photo brought on the deepest feelings of revulsion on the part of U.S. activists, who spent their youth organizing and[…]

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China’s Glowing Avatar Plants and Saltwater Rice

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, May 13 2026 From cities that glow at night to rice that grows in salty soil, China is opening new worlds. A breakthrough in sustainable design has created plants that glow in the dark. This biotechnology offers a sustainable, electricity-free way to transform urban lighting. Developed using gene-editing technology, bioluminescent plants were able[…]

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Panama’s President Sticks to His Denial of Economic Lawfare While China Retaliates

by Miguel Santos Garcia, published on Global Research, April 20, 2026 After a series of calibrated Chinese retaliatory actions including tightened shipping inspections, frozen infrastructure projects, international arbitration and disrupted agricultural exports, Panama’s economy began feeling real pain from its decision to exit the Belt and Road Initiative and seize the Hong Kong operated port concessions through lawfare. Facing mounting[…]

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Venezuela: The Limits of Gunboat Diplomacy

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, January 14, 2026 January 11. It’s now eight days since U.S. gangsters kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Revolutionary Combatant and former President of the Venezuelan National Assembly Cilia Flores. It’s a month after the Dec. 6 White House release of its National Security Strategy document, with its so-called Trump Corollary to[…]

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What Does Venezuela Have to Do With Taiwan?

by Biljana Vankovska, produced by Globetrotter, January 12, 2026 The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that feeds on permanent war. Orders are flowing, profits are booming, and blood has once again become a growth sector. For any normal society, pirates belong in adventure films, not[…]

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Is China’s Foreign Policy ‘Good Enough’?

by Danny Haiphong, published on Workers World, December 17, 2025 The question in the title may seem hyperbolic, but it is one that comes up in one form or another across the U.S. political spectrum. U.S. elites slam China’s foreign policy as riddled with “debt traps” for poorer countries in the Global South. The Western corporate media asserts that China[…]

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China’s Special Envoy Reaffirms Unbreakable Brotherhood With Venezuela Against US Naval Blockade and Piracy

by Staff at the Orinoco Tribune, January 3, 2026 Editor’s Note: An interesting aside.  The day before the U.S. bombed Caracas and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he met with a group of Chinese diplomats regarding economic commitments.   At the same time, U.S. President Trump pulled the trigger after meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodomyr Zelensky about our support for[…]

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China Changes Everything: A Book Review

by Steve Lalla, published on the Orinoco Tribune, December 22, 2025 A new book edited by Kyle Ferrana, China Changes Everything, bills itself as an anthology by “social justice activists, journalists, and commentators” and brings together chapters about the People’s Republic of China written by prominent left-wing analysts, including Arnold August, Roger Harris, Radhika Desai, Carlos Martinez, Gerald Horne, Lee[…]

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U.S. expands military encirclement of China across the Pacific

by Gary Wilson, published on The Struggle/La Lucha, December 16, 2025 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 United States is turning Australia into a forward operating base and nuclear-submarine hub for[…]

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