In early August, Jiangyou city in Sichuan Province was shaken by several days of mass protests over a school bullying incident, and this became the most prominent protest incident since White Paper protests in Nov-Dec 2022. The following video was fr...
Climate change and extreme weather compounded by bureaucratic cost-cutting and bungling
Li Yong and Moby, ISA China
Beijing has been hit by extreme rainfall again, even more severe than the devastating rainstorm in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region ...
US-China imperialist conflict set to escalate on all fronts
Vincent Kolo, ISA International Committee
(This is an extended version of an article from the latest issue of Socialist magazine, published by ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan).
The return...
The CCP's much-hyped stimulus policies of late 2024 are a mere shadow of the mega-package launched in 2008
Dikang, chinaworker.info
In late September, China’s central bank cut benchmark interest rates and signalled a major new series of econom...
chinaworker.info reporters
Number one in green energy?
China leads the world in the manufacture and installation of renewable energy. It makes 80 percent of the world’s solar PV modules. It has also leapt ahead in electric vehicles (62 percent of g...
Socialist magazine editorial part 2 (the first part of this article series was published on 5 September 2024)
Overcapacity is everywhere in Chinese industry. Rather than a sign of economic strength and success for Xi Jinping’s industrial policy, th...
Xi Jinping promised the “China Dream” but the economic reality has become a nightmare. In this Editorial feature we present three articles addressing the state of China’s economy.
Socialist magazine editorial part 1 of a 3-part series
When Preside...
“Pay us for defense” – What do Trump’s comments on Taiwan mean?
Hong Liuxing
Donald Trump’s comments about US military support for Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack have had a chilling effect on the island’s political establishment. Many inter...
Ultra-capitalist deal over Hong Kong's status exposes the hypocrisy of both sides
This year marks 40 years since the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration by which the Chinese and British governments agreed to the handover of Hong Kong to Ch...
Dikang, chinaworker.info
80 percent of China’s local government finance vehicles (LGFVs) can no longer meet their bond repayments. The LGFVs are entities owned by local governments that were set up at the time of the global financial crisis in 2008. ...
In early August, Jiangyou city in Sichuan Province was shaken by several days of mass protests over a school bullying incident, and this became the mo...
Join us and organize to back fight. For a socialist world
