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The U.S. empire built after World War II was based on its economic and military domination, which remains. But over time it has begun to fray.
The challenge by China on aspects of emerging technology and other economic fronts is one example. But increasing competition from European powers is (...)
Hundreds of millions of viewers yesterday watched the live coverage of Air Force One, which took Donald Trump on his last flight as US president from the Joint Base Andrews military facility in Maryland to his massive Mar-a-Lago estate, his post-presidential permanent home in Florida. With the (...)
On Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis. Yale University Press, 2020, 288 pp.
The problem is that while they proclaim their adherence to the class perspective, Klein and Pettis (...)
US further tightens restrictions on Huawei’s access to chips
• Under new rules issued by the Commerce Department, any company that sells Huawei any products made anywhere with US technology will require a licence
• The Trump administration has also pressured other governments to restrict (...)
The United States and China are locked in a spiraling conflict over everything from the pandemic to trade, investment, high tech, geopolitics, and military hegemony in Asia. “We’re essentially in the beginnings of a Cold War,” declared Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China (...)
The term ‘Cold War’ (old or new) hides rather than describes; also, a profound difference between the former era and the present one.
1. The older era---A Systemic Confrontation (a) This was criss-crossed by various nationalist rivalries within the Communist bloc---Asia, Indochina, Balkans. (...)
The United States and China are today the only two “global” powers to confront each other on the world stage. The more this conflict deepens, the more a trend emerges: the separation into two systems with competing hegemonic ambitions.
First certainty: the rivalry between the United States, the (...)
Much of the world at this moment is a laboratory searching for the cure for capitalism, and the social scientists running the experiments are in the streets.
Around the world, people are rising up in arms, on nearly every continent and in more than a dozen nations. In the last six months there (...)
HONG KONG, SUDAN, ALGERIA, Puerto Rico — and more. These are part of a wave of democratic mobilizations challenging repressive, authoritarian systems. In a world that seems dominated by vicious reaction, these are signs of hope for a better future, even though in most cases the struggles’ (...)
The rivalry between the U.S. and China is the central inter-imperial rivalry of our epoch. Trump has made this abundantly clear in his administration’s National Security Strategy documents, calling for a shift from a focus on the so-called “War on Terror” to “Great Power Rivalry,” and naming China (...)
Japan, US and Australia push back on China’s South Pacific expansion Tokyo advocates ’free and open Indo-Pacific’ and promises economic aid
TOKYO — A war of nerves involving Japan, the U.S., Australia and China is underway over island nations in the South Pacific Ocean such as Palau, Fiji and the (...)
The Russia-China strategic partnership, consolidated last week in Russia, has thrown U.S. elites into Supreme Paranoia mode, which is holding the whole world hostage.
Something extraordinary began with a short walk in St. Petersburg last Friday.
After a stroll, they took a boat on the Neva (...)
Highlights
• Russia and China are on a trajectory to increase ties across the economic, energy and security realms, but this path is by no means set.
• The evolving relationship between Russia and China will inherently be shaped by each country’s links to — and contention with — the United States (...)
Ashley Smith provides the background for understanding the latest twists and turns in the developing superpower conflict between the U.S. and China.
OUR DAILY newsfeeds are filled with stories about the spiraling conflicts between the U.S. and China: They’re poised on the precipice of a trade (...)
Major trends of changing geopolitics impact Asia and Europe and provide space for positive interventions from peace movements for people’s security. Even as the rise of Asia is seen as impacting international geopolitics the current reality in the Asian Continent is as follows: 1. Most riven (...)
Rivalry escalates amid concerns over trade, as warships nearly collide and an FBI trap angers Beijing.
The US and China have shrugged off rules and constraints that have kept their 21st-century global rivalry in check, opening the way for an escalating conflict on many fronts that neither side (...)
Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who’s even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, thanks to (...)
Ashley Smith analyzes the Trump administration’s further lurch toward warmongering and “America First” nationalism—and what the consequences might be.
THE TRUMP administration has taken a decisive turn toward an even more militarist “America First” strategy.
Over the past few weeks, the billionaire (...)
During the 2016 US election campaign Donald Trump promised an end to pointless foreign wars and attacked “useless” and massively expensive new military equipment, like the $1.5 trillion Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter. But the Trump presidency has ushered in a new era of militarism, as the (...)
This resolution presented to the World Congress by the outgoing International Committee was adopted by 109 votes for, 5 against, 1 abstention, 0 No votes.
Introduction
The “theses” that follow do not claim to be exhaustive or to present finished conclusions. Their main purpose is to nourish an international process of collective reflection. They often rely on already shared ideas, but try to push further the discussion of the implications of these analyses. To this end, at the risk of (...)
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