Category Archives: China

China Has a Grand Carbon Neutrality Target But Where Is the Plan?

China’s new long-term targets, to reach peak emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, are yet to be matched with a consistent short-term action plan.

Biden’s Appeasement of Hawks and Neocons Is Crippling His Diplomacy

Is Biden’s high testosterone foreign policy a feature or a bug?

How China Is Offering an Alternative to the IMF

China has been setting up currency swap lines with many countries. But is this an idea that is ahead of its time?

Michael Hudson: America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism

Further discussion of the American and Chinese economic models, focusing on financialization as a central distinction.

The War Nerd: Taiwan — The Thucydides Trapper Who Cried Woof

Parsing the war of words (and some deeds) between the US and China, particularly over Taiwan.

Michael Hudson Asks Our Readers: If Democracy Winds Up Creating Financial Dominance, What Do We Call China?

Michael Hudson seeks reader input on what to call modern governments not run by traditional nobles or financial interests.

Why India is Banking on Health Diplomacy to Grow African Footprint

India has stepped up its foreign policy re-engagement with African countries and has focused on health diplomacy.

China and US: Stumbling into War?

China and the US are doing an awful lot of chest-poking, and if anything, it’s getting worse under Biden. Could this sparring lead to war?

Coal Is In Terminal Decline, But China’s Consumption Is Climbing

Sadly, King Coal will be with us for a very long time.

Russia and China Are Sending Biden a Message: Don’t Judge Us or Try to Change us. Those Days Are Over

The initial Biden foreign policy backfires are leading to even more cooperation betwen China and Russia.

Medea Benjamin: 10 Things Wrong With Biden’s Foreign Policy

Medea Benjamin explains why the Biden administration seems firmly entrenched behind Trump’s walls of hostility.

Covid Baby Bust Has Governments Rattled

A falloff in baby production has capitalists very worried.

How the NATO Alliance Is Fighting Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine With Subsidies From State Budgets and the Gates Foundation, Hidden by bhe Financial Times

The Financial Times runs dodgy numbers to claim that Russia is vaccine price gouging to poor countries, when that’s Big Pharma’s gig.

Pfizer’s Sordid Vaccine Sales Practices in Latin America Could Be a Big Boon for China and Russia

Vaccine politics could end up nudging countries in the region even deeper into China’s orbit. As vaccines fail to materialise, doctors turn to cheap, widely available drugs such as Ivermectin.

The Chip Shortage: Brought to You By American Neoliberalism

While the chip shortage will sort itself out in the next six months, the US can’t remedy its dependence on foreigners for critical supplies.