Foreword August 25, 2024 The Board of The Transnational Foundation in Sweden has decided to publish an easy-to-read, scholarly anthology that addresses
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MULTI-YEAR DATA STUDY SHOWS DEEP MEDIA BIAS AGAINST CHINA
The international media is stunningly biased against China, data from a multi-year study has confirmed.
Out of 133 lengthy analyses of China in the Financial Times “Big Read” column over a four-year period, only two articles presented China positively, researchers in Hong Kong and London discovered.
Separate studies of the Guardian and the BBC showed that 90% of China stories were negatively framed.
n the researched period to July 2021, there were 576 reports on China in the UK Telegraph, of which only 2.5% took a positive stance.
By WARWICK POWELL | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-07-29
The ongoing chaos that seems to be the defining characteristic of US domestic politics sets the backdrop for the attempts of the United States to reassert its hegemony across the world through the global expansion of NATO. US political chaos reflects a political economy that is failing to meet the aspirations of the US people, let alone enable the US to recover its position as the unparalleled global military hegemon.
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...the approach advocated by Brose and his acolytes is going to make war more likely as technological hubris instills a belief that the United States can indeed “beat” a rival nuclear-armed power like China in a conflict, if only we invest in a nimble new high-tech force.
Is de-dollarization finally here? (Juni 2024) "A Russian commodities exporter told Reuters: "We don't care, we have yuan." According to the report, China's yuan has ousted the dollar to become MOEX's most traded currency, accounting for 53.6% of all foreign currency traded in May."
Will America and China heed the warnings of twentieth-century catastrophe?
Kirj. Odd Arne Westad, "Odd Arne Westad (s. 5. tammikuuta 1960 Ålesund, Norja) on norjalainen historioitsija. Hän on erikoistunut poliittiseen historiaan. Hän on julkaissut tutkimuksia Kiinan historiasta ja kylmän sodan historiasta. Westad on toiminut historian professorina Yalen yliopistossa vuodesta 2019 lähtien
Tiwary says in his book, Ramachandaran creates a counter-current, especially when the prevalent India-China discourse is set within the binaries of a zero-sum game
HS 15.11.23 Kiinan keskiluokka viettää Xinjiangin maakunnassa unelmalomia, joilla lasketellaan ja herkutellaan. Samaan aikaan vähemmistökansat kärsivät vankiloissa, ja heitä valvotaan omissa kodeissaankin. HS:n Kiinan-kirjeenvaihtaja Mari Manninen kävi selvittämässä, millaista on turismi Kiinan sorretuimmassa kolkassa.
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades.
It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian "old friend of China" Henry Kissinger in Beijing.
Luttwak vs Kissinger (and Brzezinsky)
May 20, 2022 A 30 mins panel discussion led by Ms Liu Xin, a very important TV personality known to CGTN's 150 million viewers because of her program "The Point".
ury Tavrovsky, chairman of Experts Commission of Russian-Chinese Committee for Friendship, Peace and Development
Ulrich Brückner, professor, Stanford University in Berlin
Michael E. O’Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution
Brian Berletic, Geopolitical Analyst, Bangkok
Jan Oberg, Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFF, in Lund, Sweden.
China’s Global Security Initiative should be carefully considered and discussed. Even a brief survey of world events indicates the pressing need for a different set of security arrangements from those currently pursued by the US and NATO allies.
HS 2.6.23 och Euractiv 5.6. Avtalet slöts under A. Blinkens besök i Helsingfors. Franska versionen rubricerades La 6G, nouvel outil de défense face à la Chine
After their meeting, Xi said that Europe is an “independent pole in a multipolar world.” That the Chinese leader should make such a statement is not surprising. That a major American European and NATO ally should sign on to it is. The joint declaration issued by Xi and Macron following their talks declares that “They seek to strengthen the multilateral international system under the aegis of the United Nations, in a multipolar world.”
One week after Macron flew out of Beijing, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva flew in. Like Macron, he arrived with a huge entourage of business executives. Accompanied by 240 business representatives, Lula and Xi signed several agreements on trade and investment