Category Archives: China

Major General Dennis Laich: Pentagon Needs a Bad Guy

Retired General Dennis Laich gives some insight into America’s permanent war policy.

The TPP Is Dead! Long Live the TPP!

Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.

Larry Wilkerson: The Danger of War With China is Real and Insane

Col. Larry Wilkerson explains that China and the U.S. must work together on the climate crisis, but the militaries and security states on both sides make that impossible.

Why Taiwan Is at the Heart of a Geopolitical Struggle to Produce Cutting-Edge Computer Chips

Why Taiwan could serve as a prototype for a tech proxy war.

Peter Kuznick: Why Did Americans Accept Barbaric Slaughter of Japanese Civilians?

In 1939, Roosevelt decried targeting civilians as “inhuman barbarism”. In 1945, the U.S. firebombed Japanese cities and dropped nuclear bombs.

So What’s With Those Weird Seed Packets from China?

Oddities in the Chinese seeds story (and yes, people planted them).

US and China Are Both Raising the Military Stakes in the South China Sea

Is the US engaged in military escalation with China, or are recent moves just high stakes posturing?

More on Deaths of Despair: New Study Links Early Job Loss to Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths and Suicides

Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.

Ilargi: What? Default? Where? Dollar?

Why the dollar is not losing its privileged status any time soon.

Even If Joe Biden Wins in a Blowout, the ‘Global Economy’ Is Not Coming Back

Why corporations are past the high water mark for global commerce.

The Mekong River, Water Wars, and Information Wars

By Lambert Strether of Corrente I’m afraid this is a post where I did indeed catch a bird, just not the one that I intended to catch. I had thought to write a post the Mekong River part of the biosphere (as with coral, mangroves, soil, and algae in Lake Erie) but as it turned […]