Taking lessons from a historical pattern called "Thucydides's Trap," political scientist Graham Allison shows why a rising China and a dominant United States...
"I began writing my novel Soul Mountain to dispel my inner loneliness at the very time when works I had written with rigorous self-censorship had been banned. Soul Mountain was written for myself and without the hope that it would be published."
Reportage från Rongcheng. Orwellian? "The party is using both coercion and cooperation to integrate the scheme into people’s lives and have it bring benefits to them. “To me, that’s what makes it Orwellian,” says Hoffman of IISS. The social credit system provides incentives for people to not want to be on a blacklist. “It’s a preemptive way of shaping the way people think and shaping the way people act,” she says. And to the extent that people believe they can benefit socially and economically from the Communist Party staying in power, the system is working."
by Mary Beaudoin
November 21, 2019 · by Rise Up Times · in capitalist system, International, manufacturing consent, Media, U.S. Foreign Policy · 2 Comments
But it’s not just the British that protesters appealed to for support. American flags were also prominent in street protests. The leader of the Hong Kong activist organization Demosistō, Joshua Wong, called for outside intervention by the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan to “liberate Hong Kong.”
the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists made a splash in the financial media in April 2013 when it disclosed a trove of secret documents ...in the aftermath of the Cyprus deposit confiscation ... the ICIJ is back in the spotlight once again, this time revealing "nearly 22,000 tax haven clients from Hong Kong and mainland China."
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity Lester R. Brown Chapter 9. China and the Soybean Challenge "The main soybean producers today, in round numbers, are the United States at 80 million tons, Brazil at 70 million tons, and Argentina at 45 million tons. Together they account for over four fifths of world soybean production. China is a distant fourth at a mere 14 million tons. For six decades, the United States was both the leading producer and exporter of soybeans, but in 2011 Brazil’s exports narrowly eclipsed those from the United States. "
Among other things, if the United States pressured Burma it would be at odd with India and China, both of which trade with Burma. Once again, a nascent nuclear-weapons program is used as an implement with which to bludgeon states when it serves our purpose such as Iran. But when dealing with it puts the United States at odd with states that it doesn't wish to alienate (further, in the case of China), it's all too willing to turn a blind eye to its nuclear program. Burma no doubt banks on that." Russ Wellen 25 oktober
"Hur kunde så mycket kapital ackumuleras i Kina att det räckte till att förutom att lyfta drygt 300 miljoner människor ur fattigdom till medelklasstillvaro, även finansiera det amerikanska budgetunderskottet (och därmed krigen i Irak och Afghanistan)? "
Henrik Ohlsson i Forum Eurasien 1/11 (?) Great Game 2.0 – rysk offensiv i Centralasien Bildtext: Putin vill utöka Rysslands ekonomiska inflytelsesfär i flera steg. Tullunionen som nyligen ingåtts mellan Ryssland, Vitryssland och Kazakstan (röd markering) utvecklas till en en frihandelszon. I nästa led bjuds även fler OSS-länder in till samarbetet, i första hand Kirgizistan och Tadzjikistan (...) som redan ingår i EurAsEc. " "Ryssland har även skapat ekonomiska och militära samarbeten med Kina inom ramen SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), som omfattar ungefär samma länder som CSTO och EurAsEc med den skillnaden att även Kina ingår. Dessa samarbeten kan till stor del ses som ett försök att skapa en motvikt till USA och NATO. Men som ofta påpekats föreligger det i grunden en konkurrenssituation också mellan SCO:s två stormakter. Kanske kommer denna konflikt att skärpas och tydliggöras under Putins kommande presidenttid."
By John Feffer, "Word Beat" Editorial , May 10, 2011. "perhaps the only country in the world that has benefited from the last decade of war against al-Qaeda is China, and it has benefitted big time. Beijing has watched the United States spend more than $
Feffer Nov 26, 2010. "China's international influence is measured not only by its presence – in the World Bank, on the Forbes list – but also by its absence. Obama recently toured Asia in a sweeping arc around China's borders to India, Indonesia, South Ko
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Nyhet 29.12.2009: "Den brittiska medborgaren Akmal Shaikh blev under morgonen den första europé som avrättats i Kina på över 50 år. Shaikh arresterades i september 2007 då han fösökte smuggla nästan 4 kilo heroin till Urumqi, den autonoma regionen Xinjian