Left Review Online July 29, 2021
US-launched cyberattacks have ramped up attacks against an online petition for a probe into Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins as it has gathered nearly 20 million signatures. The petition has been a channel for overseas netizens to contribute their signature as many have expressed their support. As...more
When the US says it will bring democracy to other countries, what those countries eventually get are explosions and civil wars - many Chinese people think and say so following the latest bombing in Afghanistan. The bomb attacks outside a school in the Afghan capital Kabul Saturday evening...more
The Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2021 is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. The summit comes as US President Joe Biden "prepares a global summit for democracy later this year," reads the official website of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, a Denmark-based nonprofit organization, which is the organizer of the...more
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pointed his finger at Hong Kong affairs again on Friday. He raised a very ridiculous request on Twitter demanding "all those imprisoned for nonviolent exercise of guaranteed freedoms should be freed immediately." We cannot help but want to ask Mr Blinken: Do...more
Cheer of excitement and joy erupted from the crowds gathered outside the Government Center in downtown Minneapolis, when the judge read out the verdict from the jury, finding that Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd with his knees, was guilty of murder and manslaughter. Celebration...more
The majority of Americans say they approve of US President Joe Biden's job performance near his first 100 days in office, according to US media, and Chinese experts also weighed in on Biden's performance from China's perspective, saying that Biden's efforts on fixing ties with not only China,...more
Under tremendous pressure, the US, which has remained silent in face of the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in India, an important partner to Washington's Indo-Pacific strategy, over the weekend, finally responded positively, pledging medical aid such as raw materials for vaccines and oxygen concentrators. Such a U-turn in attitude...more
Kathmandu. Communist Party of USA (CPUSA) has issued an official statement on the occasion of International Workers' Day (May Day) 2021. The Full text of the CPUSA statement reads as: We struggle for the right to be human. To the ruling class, we are units of labor-power endowed...more
Nicholas Burns, a career diplomat, is in the final stages of vetting to serve as US ambassador to China. Burns could be among the first batch of diplomatic nominees announced in the coming weeks, according to AXIOS on Friday. Burns is an ideal choice for the position of...more
If there is any change in China's diplomacy in the new era, the answer would be China has switched on equal diplomacy, Zhang Weiwei, director of the China Institute of Fudan University in Shanghai, said in a recent TV show. He further explained that equal diplomacy means China...more
The latest mixed messages from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken concerning certain core issues such as Taiwan, Xinjiang and the coronavirus show that the Biden administration has been facing challenges in clearly defining its China policy, struggling to keep a hard-line stance to respond to domestic anti-China...more
As the global economy enters a critical point of post-pandemic recovery, Malaysia has shown intention to speed up its 5G network construction, which is expected to greatly help the country win advantages in the market, but the move is also conducive for the whole regional economy in post-COVID...more
I wish to convey my sincerest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of my friend and legal counsel William Ramsey Clark who passed away last April 9, 2021. I have the highest regard for him as a champion of human rights, a staunch defender of the people’s...more
The situation around the Taiwan Straits has kept escalating. Within the US strategic circle, the debate of whether the US should abandon its decades-long policy of "strategic ambiguity" is going on. According to the US media, some advisors are calling for the US to make a clearer commitment...more
China does not accept any country in the world that places itself as superior to others, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a press conference on Sunday about his recent meetings in East China's Fujian Province with foreign ministers from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the...more