China

Despite Growth, Only Social Movements Will Bring Progress

January 13, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Europe, Global South

by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, January 10, 2023 In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report. Nothing in the report came as a major surprise. The growth of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to decline with no sign of a rebound. Following a modest post-pandemic[…]

Traveling to Prove China Is Not Our Enemy

November 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Belt and Road, China, Citizen Diplomacy, New Cold War, Taiwan, UNAC on the Road

by Dee Knight, November 14, 2023 “China Is Not Our Enemy” was the theme of a ten-day visit to China in early November. The visit was designed to find and highlight a path to common prosperity and a shared future between China, the United States, and the rest of the world. Visiting China made me believe peace is possible. We[…]

Rome Peace Conference Declares: U.S., Allies Provoked War in Ukraine, Stop NATO!

November 10, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Imperialism, NATO, Neocolonialism, Organizing, Terrorism, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Meddling in Europe

Statement published on Workers World, October 28, 2023 Delegates from 40 organizations and individuals from 25 countries gathered in Rome on Oct. 27 and 28, 2023, to discuss the causes of the current war in Ukraine, the war’s impact on international peace, the dangers facing our people and the tasks of the movement for a fair and permanent peace. The[…]

Israel Declares Most of Humanity Illegitimate and Irrelevant

November 9, 2023 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, United Nations, US Foreign Policy, US Government Action, War and Peace

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 1, 2023 After 120 members of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Israel demonstrated its increasing isolation by declaring the UN illegitimate and irrelevant. Both the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly continue to grapple with the Israel/Hamas War, also[…]

U.S. Attacks China for Opposing Japan’s Radioactive Water Release

September 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Japan, Nuclear Power

by Barry Shephard, published on Socialist Action, September 11, 2023 China isn’t the only country worried about the release of radioactive water from Fukushima’s cooling pools into the Pacific. [jb] Reflecting Washington’s charges, a lurid article in the September 1 New York Times is headlined “Bending Truth, China Stokes Ire Against Japan.” The gist of the article is that the[…]

Breaking News! Some on the Left Have Benefactors…

August 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, China, NATO, Political Analysis, Propaganda, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy

by Greg Godel, published on ZZ’s Blog, August 14, 2023 In June, I commented on a scurrilous article originally appearing in The Daily Beast and inexplicably reposted on the Portside website. Entitled, U.S Tech Mogul Bankrolls Pro-Russia, Pro-China News Network, the article accused several left groups of having not only received money from a benefactor sympathetic to the People’s Republic[…]

Aggressive U.S. Push for Military Supremacy in the Arctic Could Trigger Nuclear War

August 8, 2023 UNAC Editor Belt and Road, China, Cold War, NATO, Resource Wars, Russia, US Foreign Bases, US Foreign Policy

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, July 14, 2023 From 1959 to 1966, the U.S. illegally stored nuclear weapons in Greenland in preparation for a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union and built an underground scientific research center right out of a James Bond movie. It resulted in the displacement of natives and has left a residue of environmental[…]

Joe Biden Triggers Paralysis in the Production of Strategic Semiconductor Chips

July 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, China, Global Trade, Taiwan, Trade Wars, U.S. Aggression

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, published on Global Research, July 23, 2023 Semiconductors constitute a strategic commodity, used in a variety of sectors including electronics, medical devices, electronic and communications networks etc. There is evidence of manipulation, which has led to artificial shortages of semiconductors affecting a number of key sectors of the global economy. There are geopolitical implications: US Confrontation[…]

As Yellen Dictates Terms to China What We Defend, What Wall Street Wants to Destroy

July 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Belt and Road, Capitalism, China, Global Trade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, July 21, 2023 What is the material basis of the growing hostility on every level of the U.S. ruling class toward China? No great struggle is based on the personalities or aspirations of individuals. At the root is a very concrete, material basis that drives the conflict. Otherwise, meetings, discussions and diplomacy would[…]

Multipolar Maneuvering in Indo-Pacific

July 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Asia, China, Global Trade, U.S. Aggression

by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, July 19, 2023 On Monday, while delivering the keynote address at the annual China Business Summit held in Auckland, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins weighed in on the power dynamic in the Indo-Pacific. New Zealand’s estimation matters because it is a small country in Southern Pacific, heavily dependent on trade with China[…]