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    US-China trade war: Why is TikTok a big deal?

    The second of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The TikTok deal – if there will be a deal – is an important element in the wider conflict betw...

    US-China trade war: No winners

    The first of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info A popular meme of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is doing the rounds. Trump tells Xi, “I hold the cards”,...

    Jiangyou mass protest – watch the video

    In early August, Jiangyou city in Sichuan Province was shaken by several days of mass protests over a school bullying incident, and this became the most prominent protest incident since White Paper protests in Nov-Dec 2022. The following video was fr...

    Beijing suffers extreme floods with over 40 dead

    Climate change and extreme weather compounded by bureaucratic cost-cutting and bungling Li Yong and Moby, ISA China Beijing has been hit by extreme rainfall again, even more severe than the devastating rainstorm in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region ...

    Understanding China’s authoritarian state capitalism

    This is an edited version of a speech given by Peter Chan of chinaworker.info to the ISA's Virtual Marxist University in July 2020, which is now published for the first time. Marxists have continuously discussed and debated what kind of state the CC...

    Trump 2.0 – world braces for turmoil

    US-China imperialist conflict set to escalate on all fronts Vincent Kolo, ISA International Committee (This is an extended version of an article from the latest issue of Socialist magazine, published by ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan). The return...

    China’s stimulus dilemma

    The CCP's much-hyped stimulus policies of late 2024 are a mere shadow of the mega-package launched in 2008 Dikang, chinaworker.info In late September, China’s central bank cut benchmark interest rates and signalled a major new series of econom...

    Chinese capitalism is killing the planet

    chinaworker.info reporters Number one in green energy? China leads the world in the manufacture and installation of renewable energy. It makes 80 percent of the world’s solar PV modules. It has also leapt ahead in electric vehicles (62 percent of g...

    China’s ‘Japanification’ worse than Japan’s

    Socialist magazine editorial part 3 (the first and second parts of this article series were published on 5 September and 8 September 2024)  “Perhaps even more difficult” than Japan in the 1990s – that is the verdict of Lu Ting, chief China economist...

    Overcapacity and price wars: China nears deflation tipping point

    Socialist magazine editorial part 2 (the first part of this article series was published on 5 September 2024)  Overcapacity is everywhere in Chinese industry. Rather than a sign of economic strength and success for Xi Jinping’s industrial policy, th...

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    This new bubble underscores the extremely parasitic nature of capitalism and the need for a socialist alternative. Marcus Kollbrunner, Liberdade, Soc...

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