Vijay Prashad: Why are both Republicans and Democrats so obsessed with Cuba?

US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appears to be obsessed with Cuba. Every few days he takes to social media or makes remarks to the press about his desire to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. In recent months, Rubio has played a key role in drumming up support for anti-government protests in Cuba. On September 23, 2021, for instance, Rubio tweeted, “The brave people of Cuba lost their fear of protesting against the dictatorship that represses them. Holguín raises its voice against tyranny.” Rubio included an article about the Cuban town of Holguín in his tweet, where “a group of Cuban citizens” are planning to hold a “march against violence” on November 20. This article appeared in Diario de Cuba, a news site based in Miami, Florida, which from 2016 to 2019 received substantial funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, an independent nonprofit that is largely funded by the US Congress.

William Jones: U.S. companies express increased interest in this year's CIIE

While the Biden Administration is cooking up new ways to restrict Western reliance on "supply chains" connected to China, most recently in the U.S.-EU trade agreement where the two committed to use only "clean" aluminum and steel (produced in plants not fueled by coal), the major U.S. companies are traveling to Shanghai for the China International Import Expo (CIIE) to exhibit their wares and to establish a firm footing in the Chinese market. In fact, this year there are 198 American companies exhibiting at the CIIE, more than in any of the three preceding CIIEs.

US' scrutiny on McKinsey shows rising hurdles for business ties

Recent allegations raised by US media and politicians against US-based consulting giant McKinsey & Co over its businesses with Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) could pose more challenges for an already tough environment for cooperation between Chinese and US businesses, Chinese experts said on Sunday.

John Ross: Reduction in carbon emissions must be carried out as quickly as possible – and above all by advanced economies

An earlier article, “COP26: Why Advanced Countries Must Proportionately Make By Far the Biggest Cuts in Carbon Emissions – Factual Briefing,” analysed the data produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ahead of the COP conference – in its report: “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”. The conclusion which follows from the IPCC’s data is clear.

Jeffrey Sachs: ‘I see no financial obstacles to getting to net zero by 2050’

For more than three decades, Jeffrey Sachs has had a knack for placing himself at the heart of urgent economic policy issues — all of which seem to converge in our current crisis. In the late 1980s he worked on macroeconomic stabilisation and taming runaway inflation. From 1989 on, he advised governments on their economic transition from communism to liberal democracy — a model now under threat in some of those very countries as well as challenged in the west.

Ding Gang: Shanghai speed in handling of epidemic flare-up a hint of China’s system

On October 31, the Shanghai Disney Resort suddenly shut down after a confirmed COVID-19 case was found to have visited there one day earlier. This news was quickly reported by media globally.

Democracy Sausage: Kevin Rudd on climate, AUKUS and reconciliation

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd joins Mark Kenny on this week’s episode of Democracy Sausage to discuss the country’s climate policy ahead of COP26 and why the Australian government might be underestimating the public when it comes to reconciliation.

Jeffrey Sachs :'You don't need nuclear to get to net zero,'

Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, is known throughout the world for his effective strategies that address complex challenges.

Korea Joongang Daily: When China rules the world

The United States and China may not be shooting guns at each other, but they are practically engaged in a war. The world is anxiously watching this hegemony contest. Meanwhile, 75 countries are the shrimps worrying about being crushed in the fight between the two whales.

Vijay Prashad: Is China a threat to the United States?

In early October, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States announced that it had created a top-level working group on China. CIA Director William Burns said that the United States is facing its “toughest geopolitical test in a new era of great power rivalry,” and so the CIA stated that it would focus its attention on this test. What is the test? The test is, as US President Joe Biden put it, China’s “aggressiveness.”

Zhou Rong: Heihe lockdown hinders trade, but has little impact on China-Russia commerce

The city of Heihe in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, a major port for China-Russia trade, has been put under lockdown again with customs closed and railways suspended after the city confirmed cases of COVID-19, casting a further shadow on the city.

Zhou Rong: China, Pakistan media pledge to counter false propaganda

The Chinese and Pakistani Media Tuesday pledged together to counter propaganda through enhanced communications and building stronger linkages by creating the “China-Pakistan Media Corridor”.

Ding Gang: Western intellectuals now have weak minds to grasp China's might

Dictatorship, autocracy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, communism… these concepts are repeatedly appearing in Western media and experts' articles about China.

Liu Zhiqin: Biden administration's trade policy briefing repeats carrot-and-stick trick

The Biden administration has unveiled its long-awaited strategy for resolving trade differences with China, seeking dialogue and cooperation. But analysts told CGTN that tensions between the world's two largest economies are not going anywhere just yet.

Liu Zongyi: Attempts by the US and India to sabotage CPEC doomed to fail

As the flagship project under the framework of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has become a main target of fierce slander by anti-China forces in the US, India and some other countries. Responding to the relentless attacks, a Pakistani official recently said that the US was "conniving in cahoots with India against the economic lifeline of Pakistan."

Wang Wen: Avoid misunderstanding of major power relations in post-West era

On the last page of his famous book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Paul Kennedy quotes Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire, saying that, "all of these Powers are traveling on the stream of Time, which they can neither create nor direct, but upon which they can steer with more or less skill and experience." Kennedy's open-ended predictions about great power relations are being unveiled as the 21st century enters its third decade. The major powers are facing changes not seen in a century.

RDCY: China’s overall debt level should not be overestimated

On October 13th, 2021, Macro Situation Forum (Fall 2021) with report release of “An Analysis of China's National Debt Level Using Two Leverage Ratios”, hosted by Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY), co-organized by Global Governance Research Center at Renmin University of China and Jufeng Financial Research Institute, is held successfully. CCTV, Changan Street Zhishi, iFeng.com, Nanfang Metropolis Daily, Shenzhen TV, Security Times, Zhonghong.com, Financial News report the event.

Vijay Prashad: Chile Is at the Dawn of a New Political Era

“It feels like we are at the end of an era,” Bárbara Sepúlveda tells me on October 12, 2021. Sepúlveda is a member of Chile’s Constitutional Convention and of the Communist Party of Chile. The era to which Sepúlveda refers is that of General Augusto Pinochet, who led the U.S.-backed coup in 1973 that overthrew the popularly elected government of President Salvador Allende. During the Pinochet era, the military acted with impunity, and the left was assassinated and sent into exile—while big business (both Chilean and foreign) received all the blessings of the dictatorship. That’s the era that has slowly been sputtering to a halt since Pinochet’s removal in 1990 and since the Chilean people voted to throw out the dictatorship’s Constitution of 1980 and write a new one.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Cooperation, best way to handle the global crisis, achieve common good

It is incredible that in the West, there is presently an escalation of the campaign to attack China and Russia as "autocratic systems" and the supposed contrast with the "alliance of democratic states," but the reality is almost completely mirror-inverted.

Jeffrey Sachs: Development and sustainability, it’s time to change course