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’s leaders in tough balancing act between growing debt mountain and falling growth rate
chinaworker.info
China’s central bank (PBOC) announced on Wednesday 4 February a half percentage point cut in banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) in...
“Big business is trying to say that we are privileged”
Hong Kong-based journalist Shannon Van Sant interviewed billionaire Allan Zeman and protester Pa Sha. These segments of her interview were posted on her facebook page.
Two very different p...
Former security chief is the most senior scalp to be claimed by Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign
chinaworker.info
It was officially announced today that former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation for “serious disciplinary violat...
Can the Chinese dictatorship survive another quarter of a century?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
June 4th marks the 25th anniversary of the bloody massacre in Beijing that ended the mass student-led democracy movement which came close to topp...
Demonstrators call for trade pact to be withdrawn and for president to step down
CWI reporters in Taipei
This was the biggest demonstration in Taiwan’s history. In a clear sign that the island’s mass protest movement is gaining rather than losi...
Fight for a living wage met by brutal government crackdown
David Hundorf, chinaworker.info
When we march on International Women’s Day, 2014, special recognition should be accorded the women garment workers of Cambodia who staged a magnificent n...
Local government debt has soared but Beijing’s attempt to curb runaway credit misfires again
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
An end-of year scramble for funds by financial institutions drove up interbank lending rates to levels not seen since th...
Western capitalist leaders put business before lofty ‘principles’
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
David Cameron, like many other Western leaders visiting China, abandoned any pretence of defending ‘democracy’ or ‘human rights’ in order to secure...
Xi Jinping’s pledge to catch ‘tigers’ as well as ‘flies’ fails to live up to the media hype
Tommy Zheng, chinaworker.info
Statistics just released from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP), which oversees criminal investigations and prosecu...
Imperialism and the quest for global hegemony is behind the rare earth battle
Li Yong and Moby, chinaworker.info
Rare earth elements are considered ...
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