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Trump ramps up tariffs against China and rocks global stock markets Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info President Trump’s decision to increase punitive tariffs against China from one minute past midnight on Friday, 10 May, marks a dramatic esca...

100th anniversary of May Fourth Movement – The Chinese dictatorship has many reasons to fear that once again China could be on the threshold of mass protests by radicalised youth and students, which could ignite a bigger movement among the working c...

What’s behind the newfound indignation of the US and other governments over China’s repression of its Muslim minorities? chinaworker.info reporters After decades of silence governments in Washington, Berlin, London, Ottawa and elsewhere ha...

Forced confessions and more disappearances as CCP regime persecutes worker and youth activists Dikang, chinaworker.info “Our activities were actually illegal crimes. They seriously disturb the social order, and ignited foreign criticism tow...

Attempt to silence Gui Minhai’s daughter exposes collusion between Swedish and Chinese authorities Dikang, chinaworker.info Sweden’s ambassador to China, Anna Lindstedt, has been recalled in a political scandal involving Chinese dissident Gui Minhai....

Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party This article by Vincent Kolo was first published on chinaworker.info in October 2009, on the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Re...

On 1 December, the “economic cold war” between China’s Xi Jinping and America’s president Trump took two important steps, but in opposite directions Dikang, chinaworker.info A very fuzzy truce, devoid of specifics, was declared by the...

The whereabouts of 24-year-old Jasic activist are still unknown Luo Ding, chinaworker.info Yue Xin, who graduated from Peking University last year, has been under secret detention since she was arrested on August 24, along with a...

Hopes for a “miracle in Argentina” but great power tensions are rising Dikang, chinaworker.info All eyes are on the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires at the end of November. On the sidelines of the summit, China’s Xi Jinping will meet his US counterp...

Government abandons its campaign against financial risk as private companies queue for a bailout Editorial from Socialist (社会主义者‏) magazine issue 50, Winter 2018 The Chinese economic slowdown is intensifying amid the most serious crisis in US-C...