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China
China’s involuted economy
The economy is tipping into a deflationary crisis with a worsening debt crunch, falling wages and prices, and increasing reliance of fraudulent economic data
Editorial, issue 74 of Socialist magazine (China magazine published by ISA in China,...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Record low turnout in district council “election”
Results expose unpopularity of authoritarian rulers
chinaworker.info
Hong Kong held its “election” for new district councils on 10 December, with a final voter turnout of just 27.5 percent. This is the lowest voting rate since the first district cou...
China
Nationalism and militarism make waves in the South China Sea
Are China, the Philippines and the United States heading for military conflict?
Hong Liuxing and Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
Recent months have seen a sharp escalation of the dispute between the Philippines and China for sovereignty over islands an...
China
Xi-Biden talks: No thaw in Cold War
Both U.S. and China make fake show of “progress” at San Francisco summit
Editorial from Socialist 《社會主義者》magazine, journal of ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
The dictator-in-chief met the warmonger-in-chief on November 15, for long-delayed talks...
China
China: Death of Li Keqiang shows deepening anti-Xi mood
Huge crowds in Hefei gather to mourn former premier who was side-lined by Xi Jinping
chinaworker.info reporters
The death of Li Keqiang from a heart attack at the age of 68 has triggered a renewed struggle between the dictatorship’s vast ...
“Even 1.4 billion people probably can’t fill China’s empty houses”
Housing sales, prices, investment and construction are all down in 2023
Dikang, chinaworker.info
China’s property crisis shows no signs of bottoming out. In 2021, 18 trillion yuan (US$2.46 trillion) worth of property was sold in China, according to...
China
Asian Games in Hangzhou: CCP regime haunted by number 6 and number 4
Chinaworker.info reporters
A photograph of two Chinese hurdlers congratulating each other after a race in the recent Asian Games in Hangzhou has fallen foul of regime censors.
Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni embraced each other after Lin...
Features
ISA Statement on The New Cold War and Ukraine War
ISA International Committee Statement
Introduction — “The Single Most Important Element of World Relations”
ISA has identified a New Cold War between US and Chinese imperialism, which has asserted itself, as “the single most important element ...
China
China’s economy in the grip of ‘Japanification’
Property collapse deepens while concerns rise over slow and limited government intervention
Editorial from issue 71 Socialist《社会主义者》magazine, the magazine of ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
China’s economic crisis entered a new more dangero...
China
Floods in China: Capitalist climate crisis and CCP’s disregard for human life
Zhou Yi, chinaworker.info
The current floods in northern China, in the wake of super typhoon Doksuri, have rung a new alarm bell over capitalist-driven climate change but also catastrophes caused by authorities' disregard for the safety of the masse...
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Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map
Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014
Vincent Kolo
Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan...
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