China

Xinjiang Disinformation 2.0 Raised and Debunked

August 3, 2026 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Propaganda, Xinjiang

by Carlos Martinez, introduced by Dee Knight, August 2, 2026 The NY Times on July 28 ran a long and dramatic renewal of slanders against “Chinese government repression in Xinjiang,” featuring a horrific story of a person who is now claiming asylum in Germany after “escaping” from China. The sources for the man’s “credentials” are the NED-financed World Uyghur Congress,[…]

Manufactured Outrage: the Truth About China’s Ethnic Unity Law

July 15, 2026 UNAC Editor China, Cold War, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples

by Carlos Martinez, published on Friends of Socialist China, July 10, 2026 On 1 July, China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress came into force – the country’s first comprehensive national law on ethnic affairs, adopted by the National People’s Congress in March. Within days, a remarkably well-coordinated storm of condemnation had been whipped up: denunciations from Washington and[…]

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

May 21, 2026 UNAC Editor Capitalism, China, U.S. Hegemony, US Foreign Policy, US Politics

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[…]

China’s Glowing Avatar Plants and Saltwater Rice

May 21, 2026 UNAC Editor China, Green Technologies

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[…]

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

May 10, 2026 UNAC Editor Belt and Road, China, Economics, Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Panama, TradeWars, US Intervention

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[…]

Trump Defends the Dollar in Venezuela and Democrats Are Glad

February 3, 2026 UNAC Editor Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, UNAC on the Road, Venezuela

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 28, 2026 The US invaded Venezuela and kidnapped Nicólas Maduro to defend the dominance of the US dollar. Venezuela had been selling oil to China in China’s currency, the yuan. Trump just sold $500 million worth of the oil the Navy has stolen from Venezuela at sea. Magnanimous guy that he[…]

What Does Venezuela Have to Do With Taiwan?

January 24, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Imperial Lies and Liars, Imperial Wars, Taiwan, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

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[…]

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 Changes Everything: A Book Review

December 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Book Review, China, Socialism

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[…]

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

December 22, 2025 UNAC Editor Asia Pivot, Australia, China, Japan, US Foreign Policy, US Military

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[…]