Putin & Xi’s Moscow agreements
Riley Waggaman It was a big week for Russia-China experts, who collectively managed to write 10,000 hot takes about what happened in Moscow without explaining what actually happened in...
Multipolar World Order – Part 2
Iain Davis In Part 1, we discussed the nature of “world order” and global governance. We learned the crucial difference between the Westphalian model of equal, sovereign nation-states—a mythical ideal,...
East-West Strategic Temperature Hotting up in Asia-Pacific
My former professional background as a policy planner ( 1985-90) in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and related areas where I worked for 30 years enabled me...
The Fragility of Democracy: Hong Kong, China and the Extradition Bill
Binoy Kampmark It has been a history of turns and the occasional betrayal, but Hong Kong’s experiment with democracy, incubated within the Special Administrative Region, was always going to...
THE CHINA HOAX: Is China Being Framed?
Godfree Roberts Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” Noam Chomsky I was researching Chinese censorship when – irony of ironies – I...
Trump’s ‘America First’ meets China’s ‘community of common destiny’
Just as President Donald Trump has reached back into U.S. history to draw inspiration for his “America First” policy from President Andrew Jackson’s mid-19th century populism, so too is...
China: World’s Leading Defender of Human Rights?
by Kevin Kennedy, May 20, 2016, CanadianPatriot.org “Your question is full of prejudice against China and arrogance … I don’t know where that comes from. This is totally unacceptable,” Was...
Multipolar World Arrives: Russia, China Face Down US Bully
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during the 2016 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum held in Lima, Peru. Photo Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters...
Beijing official: China ready to lead world if required
Chinese bullet trains operating on the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway. RT reports: A senior Chinese Foreign Ministry official has hinted that Beijing may pick up the torch of global...
No Brains in Washington
by Paul Craig Roberts Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate — it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government...
Guardian and NYTimes Completely Misrepresent China’s Military Parade
by Joaquin Flores via Russia Insider Chinese leadership knows what China can do, has done, and what it represents to the world. China apparently felt it unnecessary to ‘over-project’...
