Belt and Road Forum: China widens its Silk Road to the world
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Beijing hopes its top-level two-day Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, starting this Sunday, will be a game-changer for globalization
Let’s cut to the chase. China’s new ‘Silk Road’ initiative is the only ...
China after the party: an interview with Wang Hui
- En Liang Khong 恩良孔
The luminary of China’s emergent “New Left” speaks to openDemocracy about the lessons of labour unrest, the Cultural Revolution as taboo, and post-party politics.
As a leftist and writer living in Beijing for the past four months, ...
Nuclear Threats Against North Korea: Consequences of the 'forgotten' war
- Bruce Cumings
The media claim that North Korea is trying to obtain and use weapons of mass destruction. Yet the United States, which opposes this strategy, has used or threatened to use such weapons in northeast Asia since the 1940s, when it did drop atomic bombs ...
Could Great Wall of Iron become New Silk Roadblock?
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Taking extreme measures to fight Islamic influences in Xinjiang province could hurt the One Road, One Belt initiative
When the hype surrounding the Trump-Xi summit turns into a Mar-a-Lago fact on the ground next month, both presidents are ...
Philippine President Duterte: ‘Goodbye US, hello China’
- Alexis Romero
Rody: Separation from US, triumvirate with China, Russia
BEIJING – President Duterte announced yesterday that he is cutting military and economic ties with the United States and is veering towards China, in a dramatic foreign policy shift that ...
Afghanistan; It’s the Heroin, Stupid
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Here we go again. In yet another Pentagon precision strike, a residential building in Achin district of Nangarhar province was hit as a crowd welcomed home a tribal leader returning from the Hajj.
At least 13 civilians were turned into «collateral ...
Monsanto+Bayer=MoBay, the poisonous cartel of GMOs against India
- Vandana Shiva
India is steeped in a synthesized controversy created by Monsanto on the first GM crop, supposedly approved for commercialization. Engaged in litigation on many fronts, Monsanto is trying to subvert our patent laws, Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers ...
Refugee Trauma in Australia’s Offshore Detention Camps on Nauru: the Leaked Incident Reports
- Binoy Kampmark
“Do I have to kill myself to go to Australia?”
— Asylum seeker, Nauru, March 2, 2015
Human sensibility has been given another sound beating with the leak of 2,116 incident reports from Australia’s remorseless detention ...
What «Drill, Baby, Drill» Means in the South China Sea
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
There’s a blue hole in the South China Sea. Longdong («Dragon Hole») is an astonishing 300,89 meters deep, in deep blue waters around Yongle, a major coral reef in the Paracel islands (or Xisha, in their Chinese denomination). ...
Is war inevitable in the South China Sea?
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Since the recent ruling by The Hague in favor of the Philippines and against China over the South China Sea, Southeast Asia has been engulfed on how to respond. They dithered. They haggled. They were plunged into despair.
It was a graphic demonstration ...
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