China’s rulers have extended their repressive grip over Hong Kong after the territories’ Legislative Council adopted a stringent new national security bill, Article 23, March 19. A previous attempt to pass the bill was scrapped after half a million people…
For decades China’s rulers have relied on expanding capitalist methods to grow their economy, and repression to keep working people in check. But their course today is producing falling exports, rising local government debt and a property market meltdown, exemplified…
BANGKOK — A conference here Dec. 9-10 focused on the history and experiences of Chinese communities from Southeast Asia to virtually every corner of the globe. Organized by the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, the gathering was…
BANGKOK — Since Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution was first published in 2005, the book has had a political impact in many parts of the world. The account…
MIAMI — Some 200 people protested at the Torch of Friendship here Dec. 16 against discriminatory anti-Chinese laws adopted in Florida and 13 other states. Laura Anderson, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress, joined the action, meeting Lichun…
The governments of the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — set up as a coalition to challenge Washington’s economic and political supremacy, met in Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug. 22-24 to decide their next steps. Their…
“You must not aim too high or be picky about work,” Huang Zongming, president of Chongqing Metropolitan College of Science and Technology in southwestern China, told more than 9,000 graduates in June. A record number of Chinese college graduates this…
In an effort to block a June 4 commemoration of those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, Hong Kong’s Victoria Park was filled with over 200 booths that weekend, part of a “Hometown Market Carnival.” That event was organized…
For decades the rulers in Beijing have sought to expand control over trade routes and increase their military while seeking markets for their rapidly growing capitalist economy. Rivalry with the U.S. rulers for influence in Asia, the Pacific and beyond…
Following years of expanding their state capitalist economy and building up their military, the Chinese rulers are now asserting greater political clout, especially in Asia, leading to sharper tensions with the imperialist rulers in Washington. Conflicts that have been building…
