China

(Tomdispatch.com) – The recent White House decision to speed the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf has led many in Washington and elsewhere to assume that the U.S. is gearing up for war with Iran. As in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. […]

China

China to Iran’s Rescue? Trump might successfully anger Beijing or Tehran, but not Both

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said at a news conference on Saturday that China opposes US unilateral sanctions on Iran and appreciates Iran’s continued commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, despite the breach of it by the Trump administration. This, […]

China

You’ll Soon be Driving an Electric Car, but it will be Made in China and You won’t be Great Again

The Conversation

By Jack Barkenbus | – The electric vehicle revolution is coming, but it won’t be driven by the U.S. Instead, China will be at the forefront. My research on EVs, dating back a decade, convinces me that this global transformation in mobility, from petroleum-fueled vehicles to electric ones, will come sooner than later. The shift […]

China

A Modest Proposal for Trump: End Trade War & Maybe China will Build you a Wall (They have Experience)

Tom Engelhardt

(Tomdispatch.com) – We have two intractable issues, one intractable president, and an intractable world, but what if it weren’t so? What if those two intractable problems could be swept off the table by a single gesture from that same intractable man? As a start, consider the problem of President Trump’s embattled “great, great wall,” the […]

China

Has the Coming Sino-American Conflict Already Begun?

Michael T. Klare

In his highly acclaimed 2017 book, Destined for War, Harvard professor Graham Allison assessed the likelihood that the United States and China would one day find themselves at war. Comparing the U.S.-Chinese relationship to great-power rivalries all the way back to the Peloponnesian War of the fifth century BC, he concluded that the future risk […]

astronomy and outer space

A New Space Race? China First to Land on Far Side of Moon

The Conversation

By Wendy Whitman Cobb | – China became the third country to land a probe on the Moon on Jan. 2. But, more importantly, it became the first to do so on the far side of the moon, often called the dark side. The ability to land on the far side of the moon is […]

China

New Cold War or New Global Tinderbox?

Michael T. Klare

(Tomdispatch.com) – When it comes to relations between Donald Trump’s America, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Xi Jinping’s China, observers everywhere are starting to talk about a return to an all-too-familiar past. “Now we have a new Cold War,” commented Russia expert Peter Felgenhauer in Moscow after President Trump recently announced plans to withdraw from the […]

China

US Ports Hurting from Trump’s anti-China Trade War, Warn of Severe Crisis in Six Months

AFP

by Ali BEKHTAOUI New York (AFP) – America’s ports are fearful that they will be big losers as the escalating trade fight between Washington and Beijing bites into business. The anxiety is that tit-for-tat tariffs between the two economic superpowers will crimp shipments, denting port revenues. Kurt Nagle, head of the American Association of Port […]

China

Pakistan Invites Saudi Arabia to Invest in China Economic Corridor

AFP

Islamabad (AFP) – Islamabad has invited Saudi Arabia to invest in the Beijing-funded, multi-billion dollar infrastructure corridor being constructed in Pakistan, its information minister said Thursday, as concerns grow over the country’s debt levels. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is an ambitious plan to build energy and transport links connecting the western Chinese region of […]