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, par ZHANG Yueran
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Public discourse on the 1989 Tiananmen Democracy Movement has been dominated by two narratives. The most prevalent interprets the (...)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
The world that allowed the Chinese economy to take off and expand internationally is no more. Sino-American tensions are sharpening against the backdrop of the crisis of commercial (de)globalization. At the meeting of the National People’s Congress, Xi Jinping confirmed his grip on the central (...)
, by DAVIDSON Helen
‘He is my best friend’: 10 years of strengthening ties between Putin and Xi The Russian and Chinese leaders have met more than 40 times in recent years, fortifying personal and formal relations
A visit by China’s president, Xi Jinping, to Moscow this week has shone a light on his strengthening (...)
, par HAWKINS Amy, KWAN Rhoda
Coronation sets up Xi, who has overseen consolidation of power, to become modern China’s longest-serving head of state
Xi Jinping has been handed an unprecedented third term as president, capping an ascent in which he has become China’s most powerful leader in generations.
In a carefully (...)
, by ALEN Michael A.
China and Russia’s relationship is complex. But China’s decision to support Russia’s war on Ukraine could ultimately come down to China’s own political interests.
China is considering sending weapons, ammunition and drones to Russia, according to information the Biden administration declassified (...)
, by BENTON Gregor
Gregor Benton on the emergence of leftist and Trotskyist youth organisations in China and the Chinese diaspora.
Critical socialist groups in China and in Chinese-speaking communities abroad have for a while now been in the throes of re-establishing a presence, and in recent months this (...)
, by ASAT Rayhan, SMITH Ashley
The fire in an apartment building in Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, triggered a wave of protest throughout China in opposition to the regime’s zero-Covid policy. It also shone a spotlight on the Chinese state’s oppression of Uyghur people. Spectre’s Ashley Smith (...)
, by OLOFSSON Natalie
In early 2021, an ex-factory worker Luo Huazhong posted on Chinese social media a photo of himself and the curtains drawn, lying solemnly in bed. Entitled “Lying Flat is Justice”, the post quickly went viral and the idea expanded, resonating with those struggling with the modern workforce. (...)
, by KLECZKOWSKI Adam
The repeated lesson from other countries is that the loss of immunity and the appearance of new variants make herd immunity a futile goal when it comes to COVID.
After nearly three years of keeping COVID under control, China is experiencing a massive new wave of COVID infections. The official (...)
, by NARAI Robert
Video footage from late December shows elderly patients infected with COVID-19 on stretchers receiving oxygen stored in large blue bottles. They are being treated on the road outside the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, one of the largest in Shanghai.
Behind the emergency room (...)
, by China Deviants, Lausan Collective
An interview with China Deviants
Lausan Collective: Tell us about China Deviants.
China Deviants: The Chinese Communist Party’s long oppression of the Chinese people reached a breaking point in November, motivating Chinese people in China and abroad to stand together against the regime. (...)
, by BENTON Gregor, LAM Chi-leung
This document is dated April 1954 but first appeared in September 1953 or even earlier. It was issued as a top secret internal CCP document ‘for information” only, i.e., not for debate. It followed the arrest of more than one thousand Chinese Trotskyists (known as Trotskyists to Stalinists and (...)
, by LIU Xiang
Note: The Chinese original article is [here->https://borderless-hk.com/2023/01/14/why-did-foxconn-workers-protests-in-zhengzhou-happen-the-seven-evil-deeds-of-foxconn-the-ccp-and-apple. Through carefully reviewing the whole processes of the protests the author indicted the collusion between the (...)
, by LI Promise
Despite different approaches toward the pandemic, the US and China share a commitment to capital accumulation
Days after a significant mass uprising in multiple major cities in China in December, the government completely reversed its zero-COVID policies, which had been in place for the (...)
, by HILTON Isabel
Having forced draconian lockdowns on his people, China’s supreme leader is now expecting them to believe that the virus is no worse than a cold.
In the chaos of China’s Covid exit wave, China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, has been curiously absent. His last public pronouncement on China’s (...)
, by CHUANG
The article we’ve translated below was originally self-published by the author, pen-named Zuoyue (左玥), on
, by Fourth International
FI supporters in the Chinese diaspora outline the significance of the ongoing protest movement in China and their stance to it in this statement approved by the Bureau.
A fire in a residential building in Ürümchi, which killed a number of predominantly Uyghur victims, catalyzed the largest mass (...)
, by NARAI Robert
A video footage shows a crowd of students at Tsinghua University in Beijing holding up blank pieces of paper and chanting, “Democracy, rule of law, freedom of expression!” Through a loudspeaker, a young woman can be heard in the background shouting: “If because we are afraid of being arrested, we (...)
, by SHANGGUAN Ariel
Different translations show the nuances in the relationship between China and Russia over nearly a century.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, China’s reaction in response to the Russian aggression has been fiercely debated in the western media. The majority of the discussions have focused (...)
, by Against the Current, New Politics, Spectre, Tempest
OVER THE PAST weekend, major Chinese cities such as Urumqi, Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Beijing, and over 50 universities —including elite institutions —were rocked by riots, mass demonstrations, and vigils. A protest movement on this scale and with such overtly political (...)
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