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Archives: China
Afghanistan’s China Card
By Dilip Hiro | (Tomdispatch.com) - Call it an irony, if you will, but as the Obama administration struggles to slow down or halt its scheduled withdrawal from Afghanistan, newly elected Afghan President Ashraf…
Modern Silk Roads and China’s Brave New World
By Pepe Escobar | (Tomdispatch.com) - BEIJING -- Seen from the Chinese capital as the Year of the Sheep starts, the malaise affecting the West seems like a mirage in a galaxy…
Hidden Dragon: China quietly becomes a Major Player in the Middle East
By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) - The era of Western neo-colonial dominance in the Middle East may finally be drawing to a bloody close. The Western monopoly ended almost unnoticed in 2013 when…
China’s Pivot toward Europe may Cut USA out of Deal
By Pepe Escobar | (Tomdispatch.com) -- November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers…
Enter the Dragon: China offers Iraq Aerial Strikes on ISIL/ Daesh
By Juan Cole | -- The list of powers eager to see Daesh (what Arabs call ISIS or ISIL) defeated grew larger this weekend with a report in the Financial Times that…
Does Bear + Dragon Trump Eagle? How Russia & China may block the US in Asia
By Pepe Escobar via Tomdispatch.com A specter haunts the fast-aging “New American Century”: the possibility of a future Beijing-Moscow-Berlin strategic trade and commercial alliance. Let’s call it the BMB. Its likelihood is…
The Yasukuni Shuffle: China and Japan duke it out via T.V. Serials on the Wrongs of WW II
By Philip J Cunningham Everyday hundreds, if not thousands of Chinese and Japanese kill one another on Chinese television. Hundreds of Anti-Japan war dramas were churned out last year and the genre…
Tiananmen still Under Lockdown after all These Years
By Philip Cunningham I approached the Square from Qianmen which back in the old days of the Qing Dynasty was the traditional gate into the Forbidden City; nowadays it's the gate to…
Another Pivot: Can Obama’s New CO2 Rules Break Our Stalemate With China?
How Obama’s New CO2 Rules May Break Our Climate Stalemate With China (via Moyers & Company) There’s going to be a long fight over the Obama administration’s new carbon emissions caps, and…
The NSA Effect: China tells its banks to remove IBM servers as Spyware
China tells its banks to remove IBM servers over snooping fears (via The Inquirer) THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT has urged its banks to stop using servers built by IBM because it believes that…
The Eurasian Pivot: Is it China’s and Russia’s Century?
(By Pepe Escobar via Tomdispatch) HONG KONG -- A specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance wedded to an expansive symbiosis of trade and commerce across much of…
Is Obama right that America’s Future is in Asia, not the Middle East?
(by Juan Cole) Barack Obama, brought up in Hawaii and having lived as a child in Indonesia, is the first Pacific president, and his current trip to Asia, beginning in Japan, is…
US Pivot to Asia Should Deploy Soft Power, not the Marines
(By John Feffer) In a future update of The Devil's Dictionary, the famed Ambrose Bierce dissection of the linguistic hypocrisies of modern life, a single word will accompany the entry for "Pacific…
China Installed More Solar Power in 2013 than the US has in its Whole History
(By Joshua S. Hill) China’s Solar Market Beat All Expectations For 2013 (via Clean Technica) Despite predictions all through 2013 suggesting that Japan would walk away the dominant solar PV market, Bloomberg…
Coleridge, Kubla Khan (Poem of the Day)
(By Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Kubla Khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless…
China and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Enter the Dragon?
This video report on China's new interest in Middle East diplomacy begins by pointing out that the Obama administration has announced a pivot toward Asia (i.e. US interests lie more in the…