Geography Archives: China

The Third Plenum is a meeting of China’s Communist Party Central Committee composed of 364 members which discusses China’s economic policy for the next several years.

With China having recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, on July 17, Foreign Minister Wang Yi published an important article outlining the historical progression from the Five Principles to President Xi Jinping’s vision of a shared future for humanity and their interrelationship of continuity, inheritance, application and development.

From the 1942 ‘American century’ to Trump’s ‘American carnage’, the U.S. has shifted from a post-WW2 boom to decline, facing political divides, economic crisis, poverty, and social decay.

BEIJING has brokered a historic deal to end the rift between Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah, Chinese state media reported today.

Outpacing the U.S. 6 to 1.

Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic.

On June 26th, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability sat down for a Congressional Hearing titled, “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare.” This was one of many Congressional hearings aimed at tackling the “China threat.”

From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China’s westward expansion—a reality obscured by Western propaganda.

In Asian media this week: Dangerous turn adds new anti-Beijing flashpoint. Plus: Bangkok banks used to supply Myanmar military; Why Hindu nationalists back Israel; Thais opt for neutrality in great-power war; How to stop China slipping into Japan trap; Online gambling an Indonesian epidemic.

The lab leak theory of Covid-19’s origins has been something of a zombie idea in public discourse, popping up again and again in corporate media despite numerous proclamations that it’s finally been debunked.

The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable.

On Tuesday, China strongly condemned the seizure of CITGO Petroleum Corporation by U.S. authorities, calling the move a flagrant violation of international law.

The report of the death of China’s Belt and Road Initiative [BRI] was an exaggeration, after all.

We might not like to read this, but here are a few things Western media completely forgot to tell you about Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang…

According to Western politicians and neoliberal economists, China’s industrial subsidies and production capacity are to blame for the U.S.’s trade deficit and its apparent inability to reindustrialise its economy.

In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations.

Last Tuesday, the trade and technology war launched by the U.S/.on China back in 2019 took another ratchet up.

In early April 2024, the navies of four countries—Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States—held a maritime exercise in the South China Sea. Australia’s Warramunga, Japan’s Akebono, the Philippines’ Antonio Luna, and the United States’ Mobile worked together in these waters to strengthen their joint abilities and—as they said in a joint statement—to “uphold the right to freedom of navigation and overflight and respect for maritime rights under international law.”

As U.S. lawmakers’ agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn’t sold to a U.S. buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a silver lining.

Superficially in the recent period the U.S. has attempted to display two apparently contradictory sides of its policy to China.