Left Review Online August 2, 2022
Donald Trump's election as US president in November 2016 marked the end of over four decades of relative stability in US-China relations. Ever since, it has been downhill all the way with barely a pause. Five years have passed and we have seen two US presidents. It would...more
Editor's Note: Inmates in prisons are subject to labor exploitation, minors working as child laborers are abused, and human trafficking remains rampant: Today, more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the US, the above-mentioned problems still exist in the country. Some American politicians have racked...more
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday released a report entitled "The State of Democracy in the United States." This is the second day in a row that China had publicly stated its views on democracy in response to the US attacks. China's actions on the eve of...more
"Tyranny" is a word that has always been used by US politicians to attack their so-called strategic competitors and countries with different ideologies. However, has Washington even realized that what it boasts as a "democratic electoral system" has long been plundering the legitimate rights of US ethnic minorities,...more
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s new China mission center and its purportedly recruitment of Chinese-speaking agents, have caught the attention of the Chinese public. Regarding China as one of its largest rivals and threats, the US seemingly makes no secret of its attempts to infiltrate and subvert China...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
Editor's Note: The 90th day since US President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence in May to investigate the origins of COVID-19, including the "lab leak" theory that the US administration has been using to smear and attack China, is approaching. It is clear that the US has once again...more
Editor's Note: The deadline of the 90-day investigation into the coronavirus origins set by the Biden administration draws near, and US intelligence agencies are reportedly gearing up their efforts to compile a report. Do these intelligence agencies have the ability and reliability to trace where the virus comes from?...more
The US is confronted with a historic defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban. America's longest war, which began in 2001, is ending in complete humiliation. The Taliban has captured the countryside, every major city and now Kabul has effectively fallen. This is Saigon in 1975...more
Human rights are for humanity, not for Human Rights Watch (HRW). Human rights must be understood and approached based on the context and the stage of nation building and state building. Above all, human rights must not be politicized in the way HRW has done. To understand the...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
Question: What do Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon and Vietnam share in common? Answer: Abandonment by an imperialist US. It is quite natural for a gambler to quit and cut their losses when bets and investments go sour. So it was with colonialism, and so it goes again with...more
As the position of US ambassador to China remains vacant after over 10 months, a rare occurrence since the two countries established diplomatic ties, Chinese experts on US affairs believe that the Biden administration wants to prioritize direct talks with China through higher-level officials because the role of...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
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