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China crisis triggers panic on global markets
More than $5 trillion wiped off global stock markets in two weeks since Chinese devaluation
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
“Black Monday” exclaimed China’s official news agency Xinhua as China’s stock market slumped 8.5 percent on 24 August. Th...
China
China’s devaluation: Currency war escalates
Sudden reversal of Beijing’s previous exchange rate policy underlines seriousness of China’s economic woes
Editorial comment by chinaworker.info
On Tuesday 11 August the Chinese central bank PBOC (People’s Bank of China) jolted global markets w...
China
China’s market rout is a turning point
Failure to stop stock market plunge has shaken the image of a ‘strong’ regime
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
“The big news here isn’t about the Chinese economy; it’s about China’s leaders. Forget everything you’ve heard about their brilliance a...
China
Capitalism in turmoil
Chaos erupts again on China’s stock markets
Editorial from socialist newspaper Offensiv, weekly of the CWI in Sweden
Just when the world’s elite were sounding the ‘all clear’ the Shanghai stock exchange plummeted again. On Monday 27 July Chines...
China
China launches sweeping crackdown on rights lawyers
More than 100 arrests • Human rights lawyers branded “enemies of the state”
chinaworker.info reporters
Xi Jinping has once again shown his authoritarian credentials with what appears to be a nationally coordinated weekend crackdown on human rig...
China
“China’s stock market crash can turn into a political crisis”
Regime adopts panic measures as market crash threatens wider economic recession
In this interview, our editor Vincent Kolo gives his view on the recent heavy falls on China’s stock market and its impact on the political situation.
How serious i...
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Is China’s stock market bubble bursting?
Billions wiped off share values in June – only the Greek stock market is more volatile
Dikang, chinaworker.info
“Before leaving the world, I wish to say I concede defeat. With capital of 1.7 million yuan and four-times margin, I bet the entiret...
China
Hong Kong: Fake democracy roundly rejected in legislative vote
Government proposals end in fiasco as Beijing loyalists misjudge voting rules
Socialist Action reporters in Hong Kong
In the end only eight pro-government lawmakers voted for the government’s deeply unpopular electoral reform – branded as “fake...
China
Will Zhou Yongkang be Xi’s last ‘tiger’?
Former security boss handed life sentence at secret trial
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
Xi Jinping finally got his man, but not the way he would have chosen. Zhou Yongkang is the 72-year-old former chief of China’s internal security behemoth. ...
China
Hong Kong: Has June 4 candlelight vigil become just a “ritual”?
End the monopoly of the ‘moderate’ pan-democrats! Transform June 4 into a platform to mobilise for mass struggle
Jo-yen, Socialist Action
Hong Kong has been the only city in the whole of China that allows mass demonstrations against the one-par...
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