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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 (...)
One night in July, Wang Yu, a lawyer in her mid-forties, returned to her home in Beijing after seeing her husband and teenage son off at the airport, unaware that they had both been detained by police before boarding their flight to Australia. Around 3 a.m. she sent a text message to friends: (...)
Illusions on both the Left and Right about China miss how the contradictions of capitalism are shaping that country’s development..
When it comes to China, Donald Trump has nothing good to say publicly.
Yet Trump has been a secret admirer of Chinese businesses for some time. At a 2008 (...)
An Explosion of Bureaucratic Capital : On the Tianjin Blast
“Many intermediary organizations are either government-run, semi-government-run, or joint ventures of the government and private sector. "
On the 19th August, 2015, the Xinhua News Agency released an interesting report on last week’s (...)
The Chinese stock market plunge over the past three weeks confirms that no matter how much the champions of capitalism pretend that it generates riches for the many, it remains an anarchic system responsible for the ruination of millions.
On 12 June, shares peaked – having grown by 150 percent (...)
Review: Au Loong-Yu (ed), China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility. The Merlin Press Ltd, London, 2013. 326pp., £15.95 pb. ISBN 9780850366372
About two-thirds of the way through China’s Rise, veteran labor rights activist and socialist commentator Au Loong-Yu offers perhaps the most concise (...)
Review: Buy China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Howard French. Knopf, 285 pp, £22.50, June 2014, ISBN 978 0 307 95698 9
In 1969, three years into the Cultural Revolution, China was not only poorer than most African countries but suffering from (...)
Review: Buy China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Howard French. Knopf, 285 pp, £22.50, June 2014, ISBN 978 0 307 95698 9
In 1969, three years into the Cultural Revolution, China was not only poorer than most African countries but suffering from (...)
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