Failure to honour terms of the 1970 nuclear non-proliferation treaty has helped create ground for Kim Jong-un’s recklessness.
North Korea’s defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons capabilities, dramatised by last weekend’s powerful underground test and a recent long-range ballistic missile launch over (...)
The Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa summit in Xiamen from September 3-5 is already inscribed with high tension thanks to Sino-Indian border conflicts. But regardless of a new peace deal, centrifugal forces within the fast-whirling world economy threaten to divide the BRICS.
Beijing’s (...)
After 16 years of the so-called war on terror, people feel no more secure than in the aftermath of 9/11.
The Barcelona attack followed a pattern that has developed over nearly three years and stems from the start of the intense US-led air war against ISIS which began back in August 2014 . That (...)
The era of amnesia is over—if we needed a wake-up call, the North Korean ICBM test supplied it with a vengeance.
If ever we needed a wake-up call, the North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test on July 4 supplied it with a vengeance: The era of nuclear amnesia is over. Ever (...)
In regard to the charges about Trump‘s collusion with Russia to throw the election his way, and Russian meddling in the elections, we can mention that the list of the elections in all the countries Washington meddled in is far too long to for this post. In fact, the U.S. is the world’s meddler in (...)
US-China relations have taken on a disturbing new dimension under Donald Trump, writes Dorothy Guerrero.
In 2016, US exports to China totalled $116 billion, while its imports reached $463 billion. The $347 billion deficit accounts for almost 70 per cent of America’s total trade deficit. Donald (...)
The balance of power is changing as US influence declines. Amid a nuclear crisis and a fractious G20 summit in Hamburg, who will win the struggle for succession?
The overt US threats of punitive military action that followed last week’s provocative test-firing of a potentially nuclear-capable (...)
The idea of a ‘big marriage’ to tackle issues such as North Korea is dead and what might come from their G20 meeting is unknown, but it will be tense.
“Occasionally, yes, toughness does involve some old-fashioned ass-kicking,” Donald Trump mused in “Surviving at the Top” .
In his dealings with (...)
The recent Belt and Road Forum in Beijing ushered in a new phase in China’s global repositioning. In his opening speech China’s president, Xi Jinping, reaffirmed the importance of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a massive investment project launched in 2013 to dramatically expand land and sea (...)
The following article was written as a contribution to Solidarity’s pre-convention discussion .
Foreign policy elites are freaking out:
“President Trump has accomplished an extraordinary amount in a short time. With shocking speed, he has wreaked havoc: hobbling our core alliances, jettisoning (...)
The United States has denounced the Paris climate agreement, cancelled all the measures decided by the United States in application of this agreement and withdrew from the Green Fund for the Climate. These are the major decisions that Donald Trump finally announced, on Thursday, June 1, after a (...)
China’s aim in Brussels this week is to undercut US leadership in global trade.
The most important person at this week’s EU-China summit won’t be in attendance.
After a decade in which China largely regarded the EU as a pool of rich consumers, Beijing suddenly senses an opportunity in Brussels. (...)
During the presidential election campaign, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump favored a stepped-up military component of foreign policy. They differed on what the main target should be. Clinton aimed at Russia, while Trump singled out China. Clinton not only wanted to continue the policy (...)
Today’s reactionaries don’t seem to be interested in a new world war, but in a clash between North and South, rich and poor.
Gilbert Achcar’s book The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder came out recently in a third French edition. On this occasion, the author wrote and (...)
American’s first strike capabilities are a legitimate threat to Russia, eliminating the desired balance between nuclear superpowers.
At the dawn of the nuclear age, its principal architect, Robert Oppenheimer, spoke of a stable standoff between nuclear powers. They would be held back from (...)
Much more could have been written, including Trump’s $54 billion increase in the already bloated war budget, and the Obama-Trump one trillion $ program to “modernize” the nuclear arsenal, including developing smaller bombs that would make their use more likely. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (...)
The International Committee of the Fourth International met in mid-February. It continued the discussion on the preparatory texts for the next World Congress. The text below is based on the introductory report to the first of these documents, dealing with the transformations of the geopolitical (...)
February 14, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — When China’s richest man, Want Jianlin, warned last December that a U.S. trade war against China would result in disaster for the United States it was no idle threat . Trump scores political points with his social base each (...)
China is becoming the hegemonic power of the 21st century. The economic crisis that has profoundly shaken the West since 2008 has only accelerated this process.
Through a combination of its own merits, the mistakes of others and a global crisis that has thrown the world off balance, China has (...)
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The vote in Britain for leaving the European Union and the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election are part of the same process and not coincidental events. What we are witnessing is a worldwide shift to the right, represented by Trump, the rise of the (...)
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