Left Review Online August 24, 2024
Editor's Note: Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter (Ritter)'s home in New York was raided by the FBI as part of a federal investigation on August 7 over allegations he is an unregistered foreign agent. Ritter, also a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, has been a critic...more
The South China Morning Post recently paid attention to the "Luban Workshop," a vocational education and training network that China is establishing in cooperation with many African and Asian countries, saying that it benefits the local people and boosts China's influence. This is not the first time that...more
American political elite's rhetoric about China is increasingly incendiary. A bipartisan consensus has emerged that frames China as a "threat" to the US and its global status. A millenarian frame activates a war-like posture, in which politicians seek to out-muscle each other on who's the "toughest on China."...more
The US is confronting a political system facing a crisis of legitimacy. A major component of the crisis is structural and inherent to US governance. Politicians in the US do not succeed in politics because of their service to the people. They are first selected by a tiny...more
In order to contain China, the US must maintain military and economic primacy over China. Nevertheless, its ability to do this has come into question in recent years due to the continual rise and growing strength of China, and the demonstrated growing weakness of the US itself. Among...more
Editor's Note: As the Chinese economy, along with the entire global economy, faces considerable challenges in recent years, some Western officials and media outlets have stepped up their long-standing smear campaign against the world's second-largest economy. They cherry-pick information and even distort facts to hype various specious narratives such...more
The Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC) on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization, published on July 21, says that China must remain committed to the basic state policy of opening to the outside world and continuing to promote reforms through...more
Editor's Note: Leonard Peltier, the 79-year-old Indigenous activist who has spent nearly 50 years in prison for the 1975 murders of two FBI agents but has long maintained his innocence, was denied parole in early July, according to the CNN. Many are concerned that the ruling means that...more
Right after the conclusion of the Paris Olympics, a US media outlet voiced concern that "by 2050 most of the world will be too hot to hold the Olympic Games." With rising temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events, the idea that future Summer Olympics might only be...more
Editor's Note: The year 2024 ushers in the second golden decade of the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) after the initiative has already yielded many fruitful results worldwide. Looking forward to the new stage of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation over the coming 10 years,...more
Editor's Note: The year 2024 ushers in the second golden decade of the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) after the initiative has already yielded many fruitful results worldwide. Looking forward to the new stage of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation over the coming 10...more
Through a series of provocative actions in the South China Sea in recent years, Japan, a country that does not have any claim in the region, has gradually revealed its ambitions to play a more influential role in the busy waterway. In its latest move, Japan and the...more
Approximately four months ago, I knew a little about Venezuela. As a member of the Secretariat of the Asian Regional Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean people and a journalist from Nepal, I received an official invitation from Hon. Yvan Gil, Minister for Foreign Affairs of...more
"America first" is no longer a tenable business strategy in earth mineral rich Global South countries. Amid a notable dip in approval ratings and open hostilities, it has not been the best of times for the US' exploitative agenda in Africa and, the larger Global South. The US,...more
With the athletics competitions of the Paris Olympics in full swing, US sprinting star Erriyon Knighton stands on the brink of a potentially career-defining moment. Knighton, current world record holder for the 200 meters in both the junior and youth categories, was embroiled in a doping scandal after...more