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Kevin Lin looks at what lies behind China’s recent economic policy pronouncements – and to what extent they can be considered to be progressive
Over just a few months, a dizzying array of actions and rhetoric by the Chinese state to prioritise ‘common prosperity’, clamp down on giant tech and (...)
“The people have their own war to fight, a war to restore their self-esteem and their political and economic rights to be free. Let us turn our ears in their direction and support their struggle. ”
Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong has been escalating. Just before the New Year, the National (...)
IT HAS PROVEN odd that leftist thinkers, such as Marxian economist Richard Wolff and Marxist geographer David Harvey, have proven unusually praising of China in recent comments. Wolff and Harvey have both expressed the view that China’s economy represents something fundamentally different from (...)
The formation of a new imperialism is a rare event. It requires multiple preconditions related to the international situation and the specific characteristics of the country concerned. From this dual viewpoint, the Chinese emergence has posed us unusual questions.
We knew that imperialism (...)
In late August a local blogger Li Guangman in China posted an article which would earn him national fame the overnight. His Every One can Sense that a Profound Transformation is Under Way [[https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/08/translation-everyone-can-sense-that-a-profound-transformation-is-underwa
Capitalists, once detested, are now welcomed with open arms into the Chinese Communist Party — as long as they pledge allegiance to an institution which now has more professionals than workers.
Has the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 100 this year, become capitalist? Since the introduction of (...)
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China’s insertion in the global capitalist system has prompted many critical analyses among the Marxist left. Most debated is a simple but basic question: is China socialist, or capitalist? Some are unequivocal. For example, a recently published “manifesto” of a group centered at the (...)
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) was founded in 1949 following a protracted liberation struggle headed by the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of Mao Zedong, who was chairman of the party until his death in 1976. This liberation struggle had five key elements which are (...)
We reproduce below the first part and second part in a series on China as a global power, from Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF).
Is China an Imperial Power in the Image of the West?
Unlike the West, modern China has seldom used brute force to access resources or expand markets — except, notably, (...)
China’s rapid rise as a new center of capital accumulation has increasingly brought it into conflict with the United States. The ISR’s Ashley Smith interviewed activist and scholar Au Loong Yu about the nature of China’s emergence as a new imperial power and what it means for the world system. (...)
Chinese global aspirations can be seen in the country’s expanding investments abroad. A trade war with the United States may have devastating consequences.
China has become a prominent actor in the global economy. The extraordinary growth of its GDP in the past 20 years, combined with its (...)
For Beijing, the era in which the European powers shaped the world was only a parenthesis before the story returns to its “normal”, Sinocentric course. China has become the second world power. Chinese geopolitics, however, has entered a phase of adaptation to an uncertain world.
The conflict (...)
Donald Trump’s temper tantrum at the Group of 7 nations summit on June 9, where he insulted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and retroactively withdrew US support for the summit’s final communiqué, was only the latest instance of his ham-handed approach to international affairs. While Trump (...)
In his article , which was published in Ming Pao on March 2nd, Professor Dic Lo mentions the “People’s Forum on One Belt, One Road (OBOR) and BRICS” that was held in September last year. As one of the organizers of the forum, I think I should respond to his opinion.
Is China a Capitalist State? (...)
Experts and activists react to ‘bombshell’ decision to scrap two-term limit that was designed to guard against Mao-style personality cult in China.
Bombshell
’Dictator for life’: Xi Jinping’s power grab condemned as step towards tyranny
The news broke at three minutes to four on a chilly winter’s (...)
In Xi Jinping’s China the habitual political framework has not withstood any substantial modifications. The party has kept its usual centralized posture, which makes it the backbone of de facto power. The recent attempts to invest state-level and provincial agencies with greater managerial (...)
Bai Ruixue, an independent labour researcher based in Hong Kong, reviews ‘China and the 21st Century Crisis’ by Li Minqi, Published by Pluto Press. Following on from the theme of his 2008 book, The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy, Li’s latest book, China and the 21st (...)
The Chinese economic miracle seems to prove that The Fable of the Bees was right. This was a satirical poem written in the 17th Century by Bernard Mandeville. According to the poet, corruption, fraud, deceit and extravagant consumption are all beneficial to the economy. Theft provides work for (...)
The son of a founding revolutionary of the Chinese Communist Party has penned an open letter, published in a Hong Kong newspaper, telling Chinese leader Xi Jinping to end one-Party dictatorship and transform China into a democracy.
“If you really want to eliminate corruption,” writes Luo Yu, who (...)
Some on the left, are so impressed with China’s rise as an economic power, that they are uncritical as to the distribution of wealth, let alone trade-union and political rights. Au Loong Yu, a labour rights activist in Hong Kong and author of China’s Rise (2012, Resistance Books), looks at the (...)
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