This article was written by Jules Boycoff and originally published at jacobinmag.com on February 4, 2022. It has been republished here with permission from the author. On the cusp of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, activists are ramping up their opposition to the...
The threat of a military conflict between the United States and China could escalate beyond the show of force each has been displaying in the Strait of Taiwan. The Strait is the 110 mile wide body of water that separates China from Taiwan. These displays of military...
In China, the giant real estate company Evergrande is on the verge of bankruptcy, drowning in debt. Its total liabilities have ballooned to an extraordinary 1.97 trillion yuan or U.S. $305 billion. This is 2% of China’s gross domestic product (GDP). The company’s...
Recently, political leaders of the wealthiest “Group of 7 Nations” (G7) that include United States, France, Germany, England, Japan, Italy, Canada and representatives of the European Union met to discuss what they saw as the most pressing issues that they were facing....
After new reports of a never released, never publicly seen U.S. intelligence document that alleges that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, the U.S. media is in a frenzy. Initially smaller or more conservative news outlets were touting the so-called...
