China

Taiwan Strait Helicopter

Dangerous Brinkmanship Over Taiwan Dangerous Brinkmanship Over Taiwan

How to avoid US-Chinese military conflict in the Western Pacific.

Oct 27, 2021 / Michael T. Klare

Protesters against the Beijing Olympics

100 Days to the Beijing Olympics 100 Days to the Beijing Olympics

As the countdown to the Winter Olympics begins, the games are already engulfed in controversy. 

Oct 27, 2021 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

Geopolitics Will Cost Us Our Planet

Geopolitics Will Cost Us Our Planet Geopolitics Will Cost Us Our Planet

For all of our posturing, we’re doomed if the world’s biggest players aren’t in agreement.

Oct 19, 2021 / Column / Michael T. Klare

Elaine Luria

Meet Representative Elaine Luria, Chowderhead Meet Representative Elaine Luria, Chowderhead

The Virginia Democrat wants Congress to give the president the authority to go to war with China. Because the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was such a shining success.

Oct 14, 2021 / Column / Andrew J. Bacevich

Xinjiang surveillance

How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy

The camps in Xinjiang and undocumented work in the US are part of the same continuum of unfreedom.

Oct 12, 2021 / Darren Byler

HONG KONG-CHINA-EDUCATION-POLITICS

China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions

Empowered workers would be a threat to the Chinese Communist Party.

Sep 22, 2021 / Maya Wang

President Joe Biden addressing the nation on Afghanistan withdrawal

Blinken and Biden Are Right: Afghanistan Is Not Saigon Blinken and Biden Are Right: Afghanistan Is Not Saigon

But not in the way they think.

Sep 15, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

China Marks 100th Anniversary Of CPC's Founding

What’s Left of Communism in China? What’s Left of Communism in China?

Capitalists, once detested, are now welcomed into the Chinese Communist Party.

Sep 3, 2021 / Jérôme Doyon

Australia Fires

The Real Existential Threat Is Our Overheating Planet The Real Existential Threat Is Our Overheating Planet

By 2049, China will be too busy dealing with climate disasters to launch a war with the United States.

Aug 26, 2021 / Michael T. Klare

Afghan Escalation

Great Power Politics After Afghanistan Great Power Politics After Afghanistan

Resetting the global chessboard.

Aug 24, 2021 / Michael T. Klare

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