Recent events in East Asia within the last few weeks now gradually confirm widespread speculations from ‘dissident’ writers and several alternative media outlets that a plot to destabilize China and the Asia Pacific region as a…
Category: Global Issues
China and Japan should tread with utmost caution and take appropriate steps to resolve the dispute over Diaoyu Islands Relations between China and Japan have deteriorated since two Japan Coast Guard vessels collided with a…
The line “was unilaterally established [by US] and not accepted by NK,” Kissinger wrote in a confidential February 1975 cable. “Insofar as it purports unilaterally to divide international waters, it is clearly contrary to international law.”
The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown two-fold, according to AFP. In its annual report…
Refugees, who claim they suffer unemployment and prejudice in Kenya, are being pushed into the arms of radicals. Hu Yinan reports from Africa.
China now has the second largest economy in the world after the United States. But there are still some obstacles that the country has to overcome in the course of its economic development. These obstacles…
China has become the world’s second largest consumer market of gold after India, with the demand for Gold increasing 13 percent on average annually. According to Sun Fengmin, Deputy Director with Gem & Jewelry Trade…
What other areas can Wikileaks be used to further inform and ‘vindicate’ the critical media? Well, start with Saudi Arabia’s neighbour to the south, Yemen. Whether or not most Americans (or for that matter, most people in general) are aware that America is waging a war in Yemen, just across the water from where America is waging another war against Somalia (since 2006/07). This past October, I wrote an article about the imperial war in Yemen as a war being fought under the auspices of the “War on Terror” and fighting al-Qaeda (financed by the Saudi elite); but which in reality is about America and other Western imperial powers (such as the U.K.) propping up a despotic leaders who has been in power since 1978, by supporting him in his campaign to eliminate a rebel movement in the North and a massive secessionist movement in the South. Saudi Arabia entered the conflict in August of 2009 by bombing rebel holdouts in the North along the Saudi border, as the Saudi elite are afraid of the movement spreading to disaffected groups within Saudi Arabia itself.
By Tom Englehardt America’s heroes? Not so much. Not anymore. Not when they’re dead, anyway. Remember as the invasion of Iraq was about to begin, when the Bush administration decided to seriously enforce a…
If China, through unjustly battered and criticized by US-led Asian coalition, were to be disturbingly pushed to move from where they stand now to a compromised thereby favorable to US position onto the question of…