Western Politicians and Media, However, Made It Seem Like They Were Innocent Victims of China’s Authoritarianism
On December 1, 2018, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested, at the behest of the United States government, at the Vancouver Airport by Canadian authorities on trumped up fraud charges involving Iran. She ended...
Of course, police brutality against peaceful protesters in China and elsewhere is reprehensible and condemnable. When it happens in China, it is particularly heinous—at least from the point of view of Western mainstream media and politicians who are particularly concerned about human rights in China.
Only exceptionally does a Western...
China’s future looks increasingly bleak, but it has great counter-cyclical expansion potential via domestic and international rebalancing
In a daring thought experiment, imagine just for a moment that you are the powerful president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). You are sitting next to a cozy fireplace in a...
Note before starting: Hats off to CGTN for its excellent video, “The Untold Story of Meng Wanzhou.” I referred to it extensively to expand my research.
The prosecution of telecommunications giant Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou on charges of violating U.S. sanctions policies with Iran has been very politicized from the...
In their reporting on China, the Western mainstream media conjure up a massive real estate crisis, enormous youth unemployment and a severe economic crisis. But the collective West is harming itself with illusions about China's economy, as you will see below.
“China is in the midst of a profound...
Effective state planning in China combined with political dysfunction and fanatical anti-government ideology in the U.S., along with overinvestment in the military and anti-intellectualism, accounts in part for wide discrepancy
Rather than playing fair, U.S. government resorts to dirty tactics and sabotage to try to reclaim strategic advantage
In 2015, the...
Two U.S. peace researchers, Michael T. Klare, professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, and Joseph Gerson, president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, have launched a new organization, the Committee for a SANE U.S.-China policy that seeks to counter the U.S....
As a progressive socialist country whose economic rise is helping to put an end to 500 years of Western imperialism, or as a capitalist-imperial rival to the U.S.?
The Biden administration has disappointed many of its supporters by adopting policies and rhetoric with regards to the People’s Republic of China...
West projecting its own image onto China when labeling it imperialist
According to many Western commentators—from the center-left to the far-right—China is the major threat to democracy, climate, peace and sovereignty in the 21st century. It is an issue where Donald Trump and Joe Biden are completely aligned. On the...
In the last decade xenophobic tropes intended to stoke fear and loathing of Chinese have accelerated ominously in the American mainstream media as many public officials of both parties label China as our “adversary” or even our “enemy.”
This last formulation is deep cause for growing alarm, especially because many...
