Geography Archives: Asia

“It has never been true that nuclear war is ‘unthinkable.’ It has been thought and the thought has been put into effect.” —E.P. Thompson

The fight inside the U.S. pits much of the business community against Biden and his ‘neoconservative’ foreign-policy advisers.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen recalls Cambodia’s “painful experience” with U.S.-dropped cluster munitions in the 1970s, which continue to cause casualties to this date.

There’s a photovoltaic war to prove it-but China’s won it for now.

From 1964 to 1973, the United States released 6,162,000 tons of bombs and other ordnance in Indochina, far greater than the combined amount during the Second World War and the Korean War.

“Piping water into the sea is an outrage. The sea is not a garbage dump,” said one local fisherman earlier this year.

Under monopoly capitalism of course this relationship between monopoly capitalists and the state becomes far closer. Rudolf Hilferding in his opus Das Finanzkapital had talked of a “personal union” between banks and industrial capital and the formation on this basis of a “financial oligarchy”, and had suggested a similar “personal union” between the “financial oligarchy” and the State.

In 2017, the World Bank determined that the income threshold for poverty, which had been set at $1.90 per day, was far too low. They set the new poverty line at $2.15 per day, which accounted for over 700 million people.

Wiktionary: ‘Carrying water’ is to to do someone’s bidding; to serve someone’s interests.

The sheer scale of China’s development has been a world-shaping event.

Nearly a hundred professors, experts and scholars from more than 20 universities and research institutions in more than ten countries, including the United Kingdom, China, Germany, the United States, Ireland, Spain, Romania, Denmark, Turkey and India, hold in-depth discussions to commemorate the 175th anniversary of “The Communist Manifesto.”

Today’s immigrant policies and political discourses across most parts of the Global North are reminiscent of a colonial Othering.

The U.S. government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn’t care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities.

Confronted with the realities of life the Biden administration has in the last days acknowledged defeat in two on its most egregious and delusional foreign policy games.

The Biden talk, made official by posting it on the White House site, is an insult to China. Whatever Blinken has said or done to smooth the relations is now gone. It was already known that the U.S. can not be trusted with anything that it says. What counts is what the U.S. does and there it has so far shown no positive move towards China.

It is for about one and a half decades now that our Sex Workers are raising the issues related to their lack of professional, legal and social rights before the members of the Other Sections of our society.

The No Cold War briefing above asks an important question: is an independent European foreign policy possible?

For months, mainstream media across the Western world—in particular English-language outlets based in the constituent members of the ‘Five Eyes’ global spying network—have been rabidly awash with terrifying news of secret “Chinese police stations” operating the world over.

Laos is a country in Southeast Asia with a rich development potential based on vast water resources as well as minerals including gold.

AFTER Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Bangladesh has become the third country in our neighbourhood to become afflicted by a serious economic crisis.