Geography Archives: China

Brazil’s collaboration with China has been flourishing. President Lula traveled to Beijing in May for his third bilateral meeting with China’s president, Xi Jinping, since returning to the presidency in 2023, declaring that “our relationship with China will be indestructible.”

In January 2024 Taiwan’s current President Lai Ching-te won the election against two other candidates. (Taiwan has no run off elections.)

The 2025 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in China was an opportunity for Black Agenda Report to join an international group of journalists working to promote meaningful dialogue on world issues.

How internal divisions and geopolitical realities are shaping the bloc’s role in a rapidly transforming global order.

The Covid pandemic’s onset prompted speculation that the disease had been created in a lab in China, specifically as a weapon against the United States. This new and highly contagious virus did wreak profound socioeconomic trauma and widespread suffering, borne disproportionately by the disadvantaged. Initially it caused nearly 1.2 million deaths in the United States. […]

China showcases a number of promising developments in the construction of socialism–though not without challenges and contradictions.

Diabetes is a silent epidemic, causing death and suffering on an unimaginable scale.

The Communist Party and socialist construction.

The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind U.S. imperial policy in the Middle East, argues Kevin Crane.

Russian and Chinese Military Cargo Planes are shuttling “support” to Iran: Weapons systems, air defenses, missiles, and so forth.

Nicaragua, with Chinese financing, launches its largest solar plant to date—powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on infrastructure for social good.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid down the law to military allies and partners throughout the Indo-Pacific: “Dramatically escalate your military build-up and put yourselves on a war footing for conflict with China.”

The U.S. is in desperate economic and military “competition” with China and has lost a lot of ground fast.

Harvard faces legal and political turmoil after Trump revokes its ability to admit foreign students, but China responds with open offers.

At the time of the 1949 revolution, China was largely an agrarian society with widespread poverty, famine and lack of infrastructure.

For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.

The U.S. military is preparing for war on China. It has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is turning “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”. Silicon Valley Big Tech oligarchs are making hugely profitable investments.

As a trade tariff war erupts across the globe Kevin Crane examines the prospects and challenges of the UK and European vehicle manufacturing sector.

On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and sixteen years of unrelenting siege.

1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]