Left Review Online November 24, 2021
In a Twitter Monday, Huawei poked fun at the US ban with a fake Black Friday sales. Taking the advantage of countless sales at the Black Friday, Huawei tweeted using its account HuaweiUSA that it is offering “100% OFF all phones currently selling in the US.” [caption id="attachment_66502"...More
Editor's Note: It is uncertain how many companies and entrepreneurs have fallen victim to US global hegemony, yet Marc Lassus (Lassus), founder of Gemplus, world's leading manufacturer of smart cards (including SIM cards), is one of them. After witnessing Lassus' smart card business made a great noise with the...More
Editor's Note: As the US has accelerated its pace to withdraw from Afghanistan despite its debacle and all the miseries caused to the Afghan people, the Afghan mission may be ending. But the war remains endless for American veterans. In the eyes of veterans, what has the US military...More
Although the US government has been coercing global scientists lately and pushing forward the lab leak hypothesis as its intelligence community-led 90-day origins probe deadline looms, more scientists spoke out in rejecting the conspiracy without yielding to mounting political pressure and continuing on their scientific path. The latest...More
The most turbulent place in Afghanistan since the fall of the Afghan government has been not in Kabul the capital city but at the Kabul international airport. For days, it has witnessed a déjà vu "Saigon moment," with the flood of Afghans desperate, even dying, to get out...More
More concrete evidence of Japanese troop's atrocity of germ warfare during World War II has been made public, as confessions of a commander of the Japanese germ warfare unit to the US after the war were released in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, which also disclosed the shocking secret...More
August 15, the day that marked the 76th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II, also witnessed the capital of Afghanistan being taken over by the Taliban at a stunning speed and with almost no bloodshed. US' practices in Afghanistan, which began in 2001 and ended...More
The Afghan Taliban have successfully returned to Kabul and are ready to set up a new government while the hasty US retreat, which had caused deaths to locals, makes the end of the 20-year-long war look increasingly embarrassing to the US. The UN Security Council held an emergency...More
The US has publicly expressed concern that the People's Republic of China (PRC) is modernizing its defensive strategic weapons capabilities. All the while, it is known in the public domain that Washington is always ready with an immeasurably more powerful arsenal of nuclear weapons. Since our allegedly moral...More
Does the US rank No. 1 in COVID-19 resilience? A report jointly issued by three Chinese think tanks on Monday unveiled the truth of America's fight against the coronavirus, which indicates that the US deserves to be the world's No. 1 anti-pandemic failure, apart from being the No....More
Editor's Note: As a bipartisan "anti-China" consensus seems to become increasingly solid in the US and the US' foreign policy is showing more recklessness, how will the US' China policy develop in the future? How can the impasse of China-US relations be broken and move the ties forward?...More
It's possible that some of the patients of the mysterious vaping-related lung disease that swept through all of the 50 US states in 2019 were actually COVID-19 patients, according to a group of Chinese scientists and radiologists after reviewing some 250 chest CT scans from published papers. These...More
On Wednesday (July 7), over 40 progressive groups sent a letter to US President Joe Biden and lawmakers urging them to prioritize cooperation with China. In the letter, they criticized Washington's current confrontational approach to China with "the growing Cold War mentality." In terms of the political spectrum,...More
In today's world, with numerous nation-state and ethnic confrontations and with planetary problems like climate change and pandemics, the real conflict should not be between opposing political systems but rather between the forces of modernity, competence and development on the one hand, and those of ignorance, exploitation and...More
The Insikt Group, a research team of US-based cybersecurity company Recorded Future, claimed in a recent report that "a suspected Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group RedFoxtrot," which launched a series of cyber threats targeting Central Asian and South Asian countries since 2014, is linked to the People's Liberation...More