Left Review Online October 6, 2020
October 10, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) founded the Workers’ Party of Korea. Kim Il Sung, who embarked on the road of revolutionary struggle in his teens to liberate his country and people from the...more
Chinese observers warned on Saturday that India's latest tricks of doubling troops at the border and authorizing frontline soldiers to fire in clashes with the Chinese army, all while agreeing to de-escalate tensions at the negotiating table with China, could further increase the risk of conflict at the...more
The Workers’ Party of Korea has been the ruling party in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since the first days of its founding on October 10, 1945. The 70-odd-year history of the WPK is the history of the people-first principle, in which it has believed in the people as in heaven and served...more
Only three days after the sixth round of the China-India military commander-level meeting on Monday with consensus reached by the two sides to cool rising border tensions, The Hindu quoted a "senior [Indian] government official" and suggested "If PLA (People's Liberation Army) comes close, Indian troops can fire."...more
In 2020, China and India have gone through a series of border conflicts. The governments and military officials from both countries have held multiple meetings on different occasions discussing the border crisis. The sixth round of military commander-level meetings between the two sides was held on Monday to...more
According to Reuters, the US Department of Commerce has decided to impose restrictions on exports to China's biggest chipmaker SMIC after concluding there is an "unacceptable risk" that equipment supplied to it could be used for military purposes. Though SMIC flatly denied previous allegations, Washington's attitude to snuff...more
On Saturday morning, lines of container lorries were waiting to discharge cargo at the Shanghai International Port (Group) Co (SIPG), while there were also many empty trucks and ships ready to load goods. Transport vehicles were moving around frequently, and about three or four cargo ships of super-large...more
Europe is undergoing a rebound of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Top British scientific advisors warned Monday that the country could witness up to 50,000 COVID-19 cases per day by mid-October, and a WHO official noted that the spread of the virus in Europe now is worse than it...more
On September 15, the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly kicked off. It was an important occasion to review the journey this international organization has traveled over the past three quarters of a century. In retrospect, the UN's creation in 1945 after two devastating world wars...more
A viral video of an H-6K bomber released by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force on Saturday has made headlines in many Western media outlets. They allege that the video shows "simulated attack on a US Air Force base on Guam." This is over-interpretation. The video actually...more
Editor's Note: Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivered a virtual address at the General Debate session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. Trump groundlessly slandered China from the beginning and nearly half of his speech was directed at China. Xi, by...more
The general debate of the 75th UN General Assembly opened Tuesday, with leaders of many countries giving video speeches. Among them, the address by US President Donald Trump is probably the one with the most personal characteristics. He used the discriminatory phrase "China virus" in his speech, and...more
In stark contrast to the US who apparently turned the UN General Assembly - a multilateral dialogue platform - into a battlefield to attack and defame China, China stressed putting people and lives first in battling COVID-19, and that major countries should act like major countries by taking...more
Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, leftist youth organizations across the world have been in the forefront of both providing relief and resisting attempts to attack the rights of people. An instance of this has been the ‘Recycle Kerala’ initiative launched by the communist Democratic Youth...more
With $150 million initial investment, the US claimed to launch a Mekong-US partnership as an integral part of its "Indo-Pacific vision," which observers believe shows its accelerated pace in politicizing the water resources issue in the region to curb China's growing influence in Southeast Asia. US Secretary of...more