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Gonzalo Lira calls attention to “US Hegemony and Its Perils”, China’s foreign office’s clear and irrefutable summary of US imperial crimes and violations that Beijing (along with Russia, Iran and other nations in the multipolar bloc) now find unacceptable in the conduct of civilised international relations. The 21st century must be a century without capricious and oppressive neofeudalist hegemons, declare the rising Eurasian powers.
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Russian Gains, US Gears Up for Crimea Escalation, US Proxies Strike China/Pakistan in Train Bombing
7 minutes readA wide-ranging insightful discussion of the developing flashpoints in the global war between Russia and her allies and the Anglo-American empire and its numerous vassals, the so-called “Freedom-loving West”, what Moscow and China are now calling “the collective West”.
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“Chinese Aggression” Sure Looks An Awful Lot Like US Aggression
27 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—US-led provocations and escalations against China are becoming a regular occurrence, both from the US itself and from its imperial assets like Australia and Taiwan. Yet according to the western political/media class, the urgent threat of our day is “Chinese aggression”. After the House of Representatives voted to approve the new Select Committee on China — a Republican initiative designed to increase internal pressure in the US government to ramp up the new cold war — the committee’s chairman Mike Gallagher put out a statement saying that it is “time to push back against the Chinese Communist Party’s aggression in bipartisan fashion.”
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Perhaps the Most Important, Yet Most Marginalized Story of 2022
13 minutes readKIM PETERSEN—China declared victory against poverty in 2021. And it is not just China lauding its victory. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres commended China on its fight against poverty. The World Bank noted that China has lifted 770 million out of poverty over the last 40 years. Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said, “Poverty alleviation and the eradication of extreme poverty, 10 years ahead of its target date, are tremendous achievements of China.” Citing China’s eradication of absolute poverty, even the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, was moved to praise China’s amazing economic development.