Setbacks in Malaysia and Pakistan
chinaworker.info reporters
China’s grandiose ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) to construct a 70-nation economic sphere under its leadership is encountering big problems: a pushback by Western powers and resista...
Hong Kong’s unpopular government signals there’s worse to come
Hong Kong society under Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is anything other than ‘stable’. The government’s slump in popular support deepens as corruption scandals, a worsenin...
Introduction to the Commission on China at the CWI School 2018 by Pasha of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
The past one year can be described as a year of big changes in China – showing a deepening crisis of the one-party dictatorship and Chin...
Expelled lawmaker has been a consistent thorn in the side of pro-Beijing camp’s authoritarian big business agenda
Vincent Kolo, Socialist Action
‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung has long been a thorn in the side of Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing establishm...
State using systematic frame-ups and ‘carrot and stick’ methods to extract confessions
Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
On 26 December, the blogger Wu Gan, known by his online nickname Super Vulgar Butcher, was sentenced to eight years in pris...
Anti-racist protest as Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon speaks in Hong Kong
Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
Racist politician Steve Bannon made a brief visit to Hong Kong on 12 September. President Trump’s former ‘chief strategist’ was ...
Xu and his family are victims of China’s deepening police crackdown
chinaworker.info reporters
Hu Xufang is a 45-year-old former management consultant from Liaoning province. He is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in...
China’s rulers are destroying ten times as many coal mining jobs as Britain’s ‘Iron Lady’ Mrs Thatcher
chinaworker.info reporters
A tsunami of job destruction is heading towards heavy industry in China. This is especially in the coal and steel ...
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...
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...
