US China Economic War

Counter Punch
View In: US China Economic WarThough brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia on November 16 has become a social media sensation. Xi, assertive if not domineering, lectured the visibly apprehensive Trudeau about the etiquett...

19FortyFive
View In: US China Economic WarWith last month’s release of its new National Security Strategy, the Biden administration has framed America’s unfolding strategic competition with China in distinctly historic terms. “We have entered a consequential new period of American foreign policy that will demand more of the United States i...

Counter Punch
View In: US China Economic WarThe Communist Party of China (CPC) held its 20th National Congress from October 16 to October 22, 2022. Every five years, the delegates of the CPC’s 96 million members meet to elect its top leaders and to set the future direction for the party. One of the main themes of the congress this year was “rejuvenation...

Multipolarista
View In: US China Economic WarThe Biden administration's aggressive sanctions aim to “kneecap” China's tech sector. A former Pentagon official acknowledged it is a “disproportionate“ and “unilateral“ attack, a “form of economic containment.“ The post US waging ‘unilateral’ economic and tech war to halt China’s rise, DC insiders sa...

Caitlin Johnstone
View In: US China Economic WarListen to a reading of this article: ❖ So many empire apologist arguments depend on pretending the US empire doesn’t exist; pretending the US is just a normal country sitting there minding its own business. If you do that, it really does look like Russia […]

Jacobin Magazine
View In: US China Economic WarCapitalists need the state. Without the state’s help, the wealthy often cannot accumulate the resources necessary to begin capitalist production (what Marx called “primitive accumulation”) — even within market economies. In sixteenth-century England, the process of primitive accumulation began with th...