Left Review Online July 19, 2021
Beijing. China on Monday reiterated its call to the United States Government to immediately and completely lift the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed against Cuba, after highlighting that it is a global claim. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian deplored the permanence of such policy although the international...more
Amid Canberra's reckless diplomatic strategy and deteriorating ties with its largest trading partner, its tourism has emerged as a new sector unable to avoid the fallout with declining tourists from China even after the pandemic ends. Industrial practitioners are reportedly planning to turn to Japan and India for...more
As a renowned Japanese company profiting in China, Sony has repeatedly crossed the line with various actions that hurt the national pride of the Chinese people. Its founding prospectus emphasizes that one of its founders, Masaru Ibuka, worked to produce new military equipment for the Japanese army during...more
Chinese COVID-19 vaccine producers Sinopharm and Sinovac reached advance purchase agreements with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to provide as many as 550 million doses of China-made vaccines for the world through the COVAX Facility, a move that would largely help the world tackle the...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
Havana, Jul 16. Cuba is and will go on being a country of peace, President Miguel Díaz-Canel said. On Twitter, Díaz-Canel called for the unity of the Cuban people and families. Amid such difficult days, I call for the unity of our people and of all Cuban families,...more
Some enterprises in South China's Guangdong Province were told to avoid using electricity during the peak period in May and June, but the shortfall was met by power supply from other regions and production remained normal, enterprises and industry observers told the Global Times on Monday. In response...more
Hanoi, Jul 16. The tightening of the US blockade against Cuba has worsened the economic and social situation in the country, but the Cuban people will get back on its feet, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said. In fact, we have some information that...more
On July 12, 2016, under the manipulation of the US, the arbitral tribunal on the South China Sea arbitration case issued an "arbitral award" at the request of the Aquino III government of the Philippines. This staged a farce that shocked the world by sweepingly denying China's claims...more
There are increasing concerns that Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is facing a resurgence of terrorism infiltrating through the Wakhan corridor, on the Afghanistan border, after the Taliban swept through northeastern Badakhshan province and is drawing closer to the border with China's Xinjiang. However, Chinese observers believe...more
Havana (July13). Cuba is not alone, as evidenced by the several messages of solidarity coming from different parts of the world in support of its revolutionary process and against destabilizing attempts. The Bolivian foreign ministry, for example, called on the international community to put an end to the...more
A declaration rang out in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that it will build itself into a powerful and prosperous socialist country in which all the people are living happily, drawing the attention of the international community. Many people of the world doubt if the country’s dream...more
When I consider the momentous occasion and remarkable achievements as we recognize the centennial of the Communist Party of China (CPC), I remember the day I unexpectedly arrived in China for the first time. It was 1999 and my friend in Los Angeles was from Chongqing. He had...more
New Delhi. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India demanded that the United States government lift the inhumane and criminal blockade imposed six decades ago on Cuba. A joint statement by both left-wing political organizations sent to Prensa Latina pointed out that Washington...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