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, by McDONELL Stephen
What is driving people to murder strangers en masse? It’s a question many in China are asking
Getty Images An elderly man rides a bicycle with bird cages on a street in Beijing on November 20, 2023.
“The Chinese people are so miserable,” read a social media post in the wake of yet another (…)
, by ROSENFIELD Ben
Ben Rosenfield reviews Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith’s China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry, Haymarket, 2024, which argues that China is a capitalist state, not a socialist alternative, and calls for international solidarity (…)
, by CHUANG Liang
When four Americans were stabbed in Jilin on June 10, I bought the CCP foreign ministry spokesperson’s comment that it was an ‘isolated case’ . Then when another knife attack targeted at a Japanese school bus in Suzhou happened in the same month. I could still tell myself that China has a huge (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
The 2024 National People’s Congress is now in session in Beijing, in the midst of a steep economic downturn affecting millions of people’s livelihood – the credit crunch in the property market now spreading to other financial sectors (see my article here) there is deflation, a slowing down of (…)
, by International Viewpoint, 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
Xi has overseen rapid economic growth and rising wealth, while spending big on the military, but inequality has widened has and a demographic crisis looms
A decade under the rule of Xi Jinping has seen extraordinary change in China. Over his 10 years as leader Xi has tightened his personal (…)
, by CHEN Sophie
Introduction to the ‘China and the World’ series.
China, the world’s second largest economy, ranks first in outward foreign direct investment (FDI), and is the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and renewable energies. Global capitalism would not survive in its current form without (…)
, by LIN Kevin
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 (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
“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 (…)
, by HIOE Brian
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 (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
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 (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
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
, by DOYON Jérôme
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 (…)
, by KATZ Claudio
Presentation
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 (…)
, by BUDD Adrian
In the past two decades, China has emerged as the major challenger to the United States’s leading position in the global economy and, to a lesser extent, as the world’s foremost military power. Compared to the global reach of the US, China’s economic and military power is more concentrated in (…)
, by PARKER Ian
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 (…)
, by BELLO Walden
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, (…)
, by AU Loong-yu, SMITH Ashley
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. (…)
, by AU Loong-yu, FERRE Juan
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 (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
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 (…)
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