Trade

Is China’s Foreign Policy ‘Good Enough’?

January 15, 2026 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Belt and Road, Book Review, China, Global South, Global Trade, Propaganda, Socialism, Trade

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[…]

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

January 7, 2026 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Trade, Venezuela

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[…]

China / United States – Latin America and the Caribbean: The people have their say.

January 7, 2026 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Trade, Venezuela

by By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein, published on Workers World, December 30, 2025 As if by fate and unplanned twists of history, at the very moment that Trump was threatening Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Marco Rubio was making clear his conviction that the Western Hemisphere is Washington’s property, thus reviving the Monroe Doctrine and its Trump corollary for[…]

Behind Trump’s Wishful Thinking on ‘Reindustrialization’: Why China Can Do It, U.S. Can’t

April 26, 2025 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Financial Vultures, Global Economics, Global Trade, Labor, Tariffs, The War at Home, Trade, Trade Wars

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, April 21, 2025 In the 1950s, when Japan and much of Europe was in ruins, the U.S. accounted for 50% of the world’s global production. By the 1960s, this was 35%, declining to 25% by the 1980s. By 2025, the U.S. share of global production had fallen to 12% as production grew elsewhere.[…]

‘New Chapter in Cooperation’: Iran, Venezuela Sign New MoUs

December 25, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Diplomacy, Iran, Trade, Venezuela

News From PressTV, November 22, 2024 Iran and Venezuela have signed a series of cooperation documents in Caracas where Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh is visiting at the helm of a high-ranking delegation. Nasirzadeh, who traveled to Caracas on Tuesday to participate at the 10th meeting of the Iran-Venezuela joint economic cooperation commission, met President Nicolas Maduro who[…]

Cuba’s Economic Crisis: US Sanctions and the Problem of ‘Overcompliance’ 

November 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Collapsed States, Cuba, Global South, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Joy Gordon, published on LaMonde Diplomatique, October 7, 2024 Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US imposed severe new economic measures against the island nation. In the[…]

The WFTU on The Passing of One Year of Genocide

October 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Labor, Palestine, Trade

Statement by Central WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions), published on Labor Today International, October 7, 2024 It has been a year since the beginning of the genocide against our brothers and sister in Palestine, more than 42 thousand people have lost their lives with the number being on the rise day by day. All efforts for a ceasefire are[…]

Saudi, Chinese Vessels Undeterred by Yemen Red Sea Ops

January 28, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Saudi Arabia, Trade, Yemen

from the News Desk at The Cradle, published on January 26, 2024 Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, is continuing to send oil and fuel tankers through the Red Sea, despite US and UK bombing of Yemen and attacks by Yemen’s armed forces on Israeli, US, and UK-linked ships passing through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. “We’re moving in the[…]

The Sanctions Boomerang: Why Trade Bans Backfire

April 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade

by Karin Kneissl, published on The Cradle, April 24, 2023 In 1806, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte implemented one of the most significant trade blockades in European history, known as the “Continental Blockade.” The underlying cause was a trade conflict between France and Britain. In 1793, Britain, which was at war with France, imposed a naval blockade on French port[…]

U.S. Spreads Misery Across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity

January 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Review, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, Soft Power Imperialism, Trade

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action Magazine, January 2, 2023 …Yet There is Almost No Opposition or Outcry—Even When Sanctions are Increasingly Having a Boomerang Effect The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a ‘response to foreign tyranny,’ but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations. On[…]