China

The world’s biggest driver of climate change facing devastating environmental blowback Dikang, chinaworker.info As negotiators in Paris neared the final days of the UN climate summit in December, the Chinese capital was paralysed by a new pollu...

World’s third largest Communist Party crushed in US-backed military coup Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The military crackdown against the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) that began in October 1965 and continued throughout the following year, ...

Neoliberalism on steroids – TPP is also a geopolitical weapon for US and Japanese capitalism against China David Hundorf, chinaworker.info At late night negotiations in Atlanta the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was finally agreed between the ...

Discussions on perspectives for Hong Kong’s democracy struggle and the crisis in China Dikang, chinaworker.info On 10-11 October a youthful and extremely important meeting took place in Hong Kong. This was the second congress of the Committee f...

Mainland media have launched an unprecedented attack on Asia’s second richest billionaire Li Ka-shing chinaworker.info Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, worth US$32 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index,  has come under fire for div...

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) launched on 5 October is a secretive pro-big business pact The agreement reached on 5 October in Atlanta between the Obama administration and representatives of 11 other countries sees the launch of the Trans-Pacifi...

Sino-US tensions increasing as China’s economy stumbles Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info China’s president Xi Jinping began his week-long visit to the United States, touching down in Seattle on Tuesday 22 September, where he met with top CEOs inc...

Non-payment of wages is behind three quarters of China’s 1,600 strikes this year David Hundorf, chinaworker.info A strike atSinopacific’s shipyard in Jiangsu’s Dayang city entered its third day, with around one-fifth of the 5,000-strong workfor...

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...

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...