Left Review Online June 5, 2021
On the occasion of World Environment Day, June 5, people’s movements and civil society organizations around the globe today launched the Global People’s Summit (GPS) on Food Systems, a counter-summit to the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) slated to be held later this year. Organisers of the GPS...more
Editor's Note: America's latest policies toward China will prove self-defeating, said Charles W. Freeman Jr. (Freeman), a former senior US diplomat who has witnessed the establishment and development of China-US diplomatic relations. Freeman, who served as the principal American interpreter during US president Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China,...more
Editor Note: US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to hold their first summit in Geneva on June 16. Observers argue the recent US-Russia engagement, including the Lavrov-Blinken meeting, revealed that Washington wants Moscow to pivot away from Beijing. "China-Russia partnership is strong enough...more
A recent article published by the National Interest claimed that "American is certainly not getting its bang for its buck, and Manila has been an increasingly unreliable partner." It regarded the Philippines as the "'least valuable player' among the thirty-four nations with which the United States has a...more
Dear members of the Korean Children’s Union across the country, Dear delegates to the Joint National Meeting held in celebration of the 66th anniversary of the founding of the KCU; I am very happy and pleased today to see you, our proud KCU delegates, who have come from...more
Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will visit the US from Monday to Friday. Before the visit, Jaishankar's remarks on an event hosted by The Financial Times and The Indian Express laid out India's geopolitical calculus in a world that is being shaped by two dominant powers -...more
Editor's Note: Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, is paying a visit to Russia from Monday to Thursday to hold the 16th round...more
When a Palestinian girl wept out her tears in the ruins of her bombed home, asking "Why do we deserve this? What did we do for this? They just don't like us because we are Muslims," the US continued to obstruct the UN Security Council (UNSC) to issue...more
"No Cold War" campaign has turned into an international movement attracting attention from millions of people. This shows the number of peace lovers around the world is increasing. The so-called new cold war is already an outdated strategic plot made by a group of people in Washington who...more
In April, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani wrote an article in Foreign Affairs magazine, and gave an interview to Der Spiegel to articulate his vision and framework for the peace process of Afghanistan. It is a critical time that we all come together and work for it, since...more
Recently some Western countries have been insisting that the “north Korean human rights issue” should be treated by the United Nations Security Council. In retrospect, the UNSC discussed the DPRK’s “human rights issue” and passed “human rights resolutions” against it every year from 2014. However, since 2018 it...more
Recently, the US Embassy and consulates in China released its Mission China Public Affairs Section (PAS) Annual Program Statement on its website. The program aims to support non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including think tanks, civil society organizations and individuals carrying out programs in support of the civil society, museums,...more
Editor's Note: The West and China "need to have a forum for learning, that is a two-way process." Kerry Brown, director of the Lau Institute at King's College London, believes that there are many lessons from China that the world can draw on. Why does Brown hold such an...more
Washington is facing a tough choice now. This past week has seen the worst violence in Gaza and Israel since 2014. US President Joe Biden has made diplomatic phone calls to both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. A US envoy has arrived in...more
A great man is immortal for his outstanding ideology and undying exploits. President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), eternal leader of the Korean people, authored the unique Juche idea that man is the master of everything and decides everything, that is, the masses are the masters of the revolution...more