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, by HOLCOMBE April
Review of China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry by Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu et Ashley Smith. Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2024, 224 pages, 13,17 dollars.
Introduction
Competition between the United States and China casts a shadow across (…)
, by HORE Charlie
Charlie Hore chronicles the rapid growth of the Chinese economy over the last quarter of a century and the growing tensions with the US. Video transcript.
Thanks very much to Edinburgh rs21 for arranging this and thanks to everyone who’s come. There’s no question that when the history of the (…)
, by SMITH Richard
China’s emergence as the world’s pre-eminent low-cost manufacturer in the 1990s and 2000s devastated Western industries, cost millions of American jobs and was heavily responsible for the election of anti-free trade Donald Trump in 2016 against Hillary Clinton. Clinton championed the (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
The Chinese regime has never been as opaque as it is today. We are living in a time of uncertainty, not yet knowing how Donald Trump will play his cards in relation to China. Between the climate crisis and chaotic de-globalisation, these are unprecedented times. Let’s try to decipher the (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul, SHI Yongqin
Leon Trotsky’s works have long been repressed in China, but translator Shi Yongqin has dedicated his life to bringing them to a Chinese audience. Born in 1949, the year of the Chinese Revolution, Shi’s experiences reflect the latent dissatisfaction of Chinese intellectuals with mainstream (…)
, par TAN Chee Meng
« Beijing has tried preparing for a tougher US climate, which may explain why it has increased trade with south-east Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East in recent years. Therefore, China may be looking to engage the west, at least the non-US part of it, for a range of economic, political (…)
, by CABALLERO Jose
Within days of Donald Trump’s election win in November 2024, China’s president Xi Jinping was at a ceremony opening a deep-water port in Peru as part of a “diplomatic blitz” through Latin America.
Xi’s presence was a symbol of China’s rising influence in the region.
The Chinese-funded (£2.8 (…)
, 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 LAROIA Arnav
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday called on the Chinese government to immediately release Liu Hanbin, a blogger who has been detained for one month following his publication of information regarding a protest by farmers against forced land seizures.
RSF’s Asia-Pacific bureau director (…)
, by AKRAM-BOSHAR Shireen
China is pushing a flawed peace process while deepening economic ties with Israel.
Over the past year, analysts and writers in the mainstream press as well as in some left-wing media have argued that China has upended its relationship with Israel in its defense of Palestine in the wake of (…)
, by BENTON Gregor
The Longest Night: Three Generations of Chinese Trotskyists in Defeat, Jail, Exile, and Diaspora, Editors/Translators: Gregor Benton and Yang Yang, with an introduction by Gregor Benton.
This sequel to Prophets Unarmed delves into the tumultuous journey of Chinese Trotskyism after 1949, (…)
, by HUMMEL Thomas , SMITH Ashley
Increasingly, understanding the inter-imperialist competition between the United States and China is becoming essential to understanding the dynamics of the modern capitalist system. With the goal of broadening our understanding of the dynamics at play, Ashley Smith, along with co-authors Eli (…)
, by LOK Mui Lok
IN CHINA TODAY social media reveals a variety of tragedies as the economic crisis deepens:
• From January to June 2024, more than one million food and beverage-related businesses closed.
• In May, among the 70 large and medium-sized cities of China, the sales prices of new residential (…)
, by DRUCKER Peter
The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus By Petrus Liu Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023, x + 239 pages, $29.95 paperback.
EFFORTS TO PRODUCE a ”queer Marxism,” at least by that name, date back a mere 15 years, to the publication of (…)
, 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 ANDERSON Perry
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen Jian. Harvard, 817 pp., £29.95, May, 978 0 674 65958 2
Every modern revolution of significance, from 1789 to the present, has produced a diaspora. The exodus from Russia after the end of its ancien régime scattered minds of exceptional brilliance in the arts, (…)
, by SEBALD Andrew, YAN Ruo
In January 2014, Xu Lizhi penned “A Screw Fell to the Ground,” (一颗螺丝掉在地上), one poem in a collection he wrote during his soul-crushing experience as a Foxconn worker:
A screw fell to the ground
In this dark night of overtime
Plunging vertically, lightly clinking
It won’t attract anyone’s (…)
Julie Liu
Today, I will provide a broad and simplified summary of workers’ resistance in China, especially labor resistance in the low-end manufacturing sector in the post-Covid era. But first I want to give a broad overview of the development of workers’ struggles since China’s market-driven (…)
Zoe Zhao
For today’s talk, I will focus primarily on the conditions of women workers and Olia will talk more about self-organization and NGOs. Some of the discussion will draw from my own fieldwork in China during the pandemic.
To understand gender relations in the Chinese working class (…)
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