Left Review Online August 17, 2020
The Korean people praise President Kim Il Sung as a hero of the nation for saving the destiny of the nation from the Japanese military occupation. Born to a peasant family on April 15, 1912, he received patriotic education from his father, pioneer of the independence movement, in...more
Trump's suppression of China-US ties and hatred against China since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus are now blatantly challenging the value of free and open markets and the one-China policy. The game with the US will become China's most complex, acute and critical long-term strategic task in...more
Kathmandu. Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission (SAC) of the DPRK and supreme leader of the Korean people, appointed Kim Tok Hun as a new Prime Minister (Premier) of the Cabinet of the Demecoartic Peoples' Republic of Korea, KCNA reported. A decree of the State...more
Beijing. Retaliation measures enforced by the Chinese government in response to US provocations are overwhelmingly supported by the public, and increasingly more Chinese people disfavor the US amid the recent spate of unprecedented tensions since the two countries established diplomatic ties in the late 1970s, a survey showed...more
Beijing. Traveling about 40 kilometers along the winding mountain road from Nacuo county in Shannan, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, the altitude decreased sharply from 4,380 meters above the sea level to 2,800 meters where the Lebugou border region sits. Lebugou borders India and Bhutan. Standing on the...more
Kathmandu. With an electoral shock to the US President Donald Trump, the United Nations Security Council late Friday rejected a resolution from the US to extend an arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October. The US that claims of creating and leading a new world order...more
August is India’s month of independence. This year as India celebrates the seventy-third anniversary of the country’s independence, the celebrations are however bound to be unprecedentedly muted. Not just because of the mandatory restriction on assemblies of people and the physical distance that citizens are expected to maintain...more
The island of Taiwan is reportedly in discussions with the US over the purchase of cruise missiles and sea mines, and claimed they will potentially be deployed as coastal defense and amphibious landing deterrence. The intention to purchase these weapons only emphasized Taiwan's outdated war concepts and military...more
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy's newly revealed bomber, the H-6J, was recently deployed on Yongxing Island in the South China Sea for the first time, foreign media reported on Wednesday. The move will enable the PLA to suppress and jam provocative US military activities in the...more
AS we approach our 73rd Independence Day, a new national narrative is being scripted to bequeath to India’s future. This narrative of a `New India’ suggests that on August 15, 1947, India achieved its independence; on August 5, 2019, with the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of...more
Beijing. The Chinese mainland openly warned Taiwan secessionists by conducting massive military drills in the Taiwan Straits on Thursday. Chinese experts said this is a clear and unprecedented deterrence toward secessionists of the island as well as the US, as the Trump administration has increased its links with...more
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command on Thursday announced that it held consecutive live-fire drills in the Taiwan Straits and its northern and southern ends. It said that "a certain major country" has been continuously making negative moves on the Taiwan question, which has sent...more
Kathmandu. The International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS) strongly condemned the barbaric murder of veteran peasant leader and peace activist Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis. The media statement issued by the ILPS Chairperson Len Cooper on Thursday stated that "The International League of Peoples’ Struggles, along with its member...more
Kathmandu. The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has strongly condemned the brutal murder of veteran peasant leader Randal Echanis, popularly known as "Ka Randy" or "Ka Randall" in the Philippines and demanded justice for him. The NDFP also conveyed its condolences to his wife, children, and...more
Quito. Residents of Ecuador and Cuba residents will remember today Fidel Castro, historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, on the 94th anniversary of his birth. To honor him, a program organized by solidarity groups and graduates in Cuba is planned, together with the diplomatic mission of the Caribbean...more