Shifting positions over Taiwan and its international status are raising tensions between the US and China, while a new global arms race is kicking off
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
Are we witnessing a temporary thaw in the US-China conflict? This ...
Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
China is experiencing its worst power cuts in two decades. The cause is a “coal shortage” – a state of affairs that points to much deeper economic and political problems.
China is by far the world’s biggest producer of...
Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have signed a new defence and security pact — AUKUS — which has infuriated France and is clearly directed against China.
Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden)
The new defence p...
The world changed twenty years ago. It’s rare that a single event like the 9/11 terrorist attack in the USA can have that much impact. But of course it wasn’t just an act of terror which altered the course of history. Rather it was the response to it
Of all the setbacks for women and workers in the world over the past year, this is among the worst. Imperialism has ensured that one of the most oppressive regimes against women ever, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan based on pure gender apartheid, ...
Evergrande, the Chinese property company, is missing one payment deadline after another. If it collapses the consequences could be huge for China’s economy, its authoritarian regime and for global capitalism. ISA (International Socialist Alternative) talks to Vincent Kolo of chinaworker.info about what could happen.
We are living through a decisive period in the fight against climate change. At current rates we are heading for 3C of global warming by the year 2100 — well above the 2C limit set by the Paris Agreement to avert a climate disaster.
This disaster is...
