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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...

Jasic Support Group branded a “criminal” organisation chinaworker.info reporters A new wave of repression is sweeping China’s universities. Security forces have detained more than a dozen student activists since the start of November. All the v...

Setbacks in Malaysia and Pakistan chinaworker.info reporters China’s grandiose ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) to construct a 70-nation economic sphere under its leadership is encountering big problems: a pushback by Western powers and resista...

The de facto deportation of FT Asia editor Victor Mallet is a major attack on freedom of speech Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) reporters The denial of a work visa for senior Financial Times journalist Victor Mallet is a clear sign that Chi...

Speech brands China as foremost threat to US power chinaworker.info reporters Mike Pence, Trump’s Vice President, is hardly regarded as an influential member of the US government. But his speech on 4 October to a right-wing US think tank marked...

Another costly white elephant project with sinister political implications Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info It has been dubbed by some as the “Trojan train” because for the first time it legitimises the presence of Chinese police and security official...

A new chapter of struggle has opened in China chinaworker.info statement The struggle for trade union rights at Jasic Technology in Shenzhen has opened a new chapter in the recent history of China’s labour movement. This struggle has captured the i...

Trump’s tariffs raise international tensions and could derail global economic growth Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The trade war between Washington and Beijing looks set to escalate. The Trump administration is poised to impose tariffs – a punitiv...

The US-China conflict, an economic downturn, and rising political discontent have combined to shake Xi’s previously iron grip Editorial from Socialist《社会主义者》magazine, September-October 2018 issue “How things have changed,” declared US-based...