(2020-09-12). Sunday 9/13: Sharat G. Lin on the Rise and Fall of U.S.-China Relations. indybay.org Online…
(2020-09-11). India, China agree to 'quickly disengage, ease tensions' at border. yenisafak.com India and China agreed to quickly disengage their troops at the disputed border amid months-long ongoing faceoff, a joint statement said early Friday.Top diplomats of New Delhi and Beijing agreed at a meeting in the Russian capital Moscow on Thursday that the border troops of both sides "should continue their dialogue, quickly disengage, maintain proper distance and ease tensions," said the statement released by the Indian Foreign Ministry.The Asian giants are witnessing a heightened faceoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), a de facto border near the Himalayan region of Ladakh in the disputed Jammu and Kas…
(2020-09-11). The US Is Doing Far Worse Than What It Accuses China Of Doing To The Uighurs. thealtworld.com 
Disney is the subject of controversy in mainstream circles again, not because it is a Vox "Some viewers who paid to stream the movie on Disney+ last weeke…
(2020-09-11). The rule of big oil causes misery in the Middle East. peoplesworld.org 
During the reign of the Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD), a mysterious plague spread out of the Nile Valley to Constantinople and finished off the Roman Empire. Appearing first in China and North India, the "Black Death" (Yersinia pestis) radiated throughout the Mediterranean and into Northern Europe. It may well have killed close to half …
(2020-09-11). The South China Sea: What's Really at Issue. dissidentvoice.org 
The South China Sea is basically China's export waterway to Africa and to Europe (among other markets), but in order for China's enemy (aspiring conqueror), America, to harm and weaken China maximally, and to use the United Nations assisting in that aggression, America and its allies have cast this vital trade-waterway as being instead basically …
(2020-09-11). US Cancels Over 1,000 Visas For Chinese Nationals. popularresistance.org The United States has revoked visas for more than 1,000 Chinese nationals under a May 29 presidential proclamation to suspend entry from China of students and researchers deemed security risks, according to the US Department of State. | The acting head of the US Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, said earlier that Washington was blocking visas "for certain Chinese graduate students and researchers with ties to China's military fusion strategy, to prevent them from stealing and otherwise appropriating sensitive research."
(2020-09-11). Washington Regime Ban on China's TikTok App: A Dumb Move. globalresearch.ca The Washington regimes' demand that the Chinese firm ByteDance sell the U.S. presence of its video sharing app TikTok to a U.S. tech company is not a smart move. This follows related demands that the Chinese mobile app WeChat cease …
(2020-09-11). China, India Reach Consensus on Easing Border Tensions. telesurenglish.net China's Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar reached a five-point consensus on the developments in the border areas. | RELATED: | "The two foreign ministers agreed that both sides should follow the series of consensus reached between the two countries' leaders on developing China-India relations, including not allowing differences to become disputes," a joint statement holds. | Noting th…
(2020-09-11). TikTok, Trump And The Need For A Digital Non-Aligned Movement. popularresistance.org Recent weeks have seen a dramatic escalation in the U.S.' stance towards tech companies from the People's Republic of China (PRC). After hounding the telecommunications company Huawei for years, the social networking app TikTok is the latest Chinese company to enter the firing line. | On 5 August U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo published a press release that could be seen as the master plan that explained the logic behind these policies: creating a parallel internet, defined as a place where companies from the PRC have no place.
(2020-09-11). Germany to take in 150 refugee children from Greece. yenisafak.com German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and EU Commission's Vice President Margaritis Schinas held an online news conference to discuss the latest situation in the Moria Camp.Seehofer said that France and Germany will take in most of the 400 unaccompanied children that were relocated to the city of Thessaloniki.Germany did not give an exact number as the negotiations are still continuing, Seehofer stated.Germany aims to bring the children to the country until the end of this year, he said.Finland, Luxembourg, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Croatia, Portugal, Switzerland and Belgium are among the countries that accept…
(2020-09-11). China, India agree to disengage troops on contested border. yenisafak.com China and India said they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore "peace and tranquillity" following a high-level diplomatic meeting in Moscow.Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi and Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar met in Moscow on Thursday and reached a five-point consensus, including agreements the current border situation is not in their interests and that troops from both sides should quickly disengage and ease tensions, the two countries said in a joint statement.The consensus, struck on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation m…
(2020-09-11). Solomon Islands' renegade province threatens separatist split over China diplomatic recognition. wsws.org The threat is the latest in a series of provocations by the Malaitan leader, who is being backed by US and Australian imperialism.
(2020-09-11). The 19th Anniversary of the Deep State Attack On America. thealtworld.com Most anniversaries of September 11, 2001, I have written an article presenting yet again the enormous evidence that the official story of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are so obviously false as to be unbelievable. Yet Americans believed the transparent lie. | The military/security complex was desperate for enemies. In 2001 Russia was under the US thumb. China's rise was predicted to be 50 years away. Where were the enemies to keep the military/security budget and power growing? | The neoconservitives who dominated the Cheney/Bush government identified the Arab Middle East as the enemy and…
(2020-09-10). Tibet: History and Geopolitics. Mao Zedong's Legacy. globalresearch.ca Considering its size, prestige and historical value, Tibet is another region within China's frontiers of a vital nature to Beijing. Tibet in fact has a centuries-long association with mainland China; and, in modern history, was ruled from a distance by …
(2020-09-10). Chinese Bombers, Paratroopers Practice High-Altitude Drills as Himalayan Tensions With India Heat Up. sputniknews.com Several reports of new military drills and deployments in western China point to Beijing preparing for the dispute on the Indian border to become a wider conflict.
(2020-09-10). 'Racial discrimination': Beijing blasts Washington for revoking visas of 1,000 Chinese students. rt.com 
Chinese students whose visas were revoked by the US were persecuted for political reasons, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said, adding that Beijing reserves the right to respond to the move. | The visa move by Washington amounts to "outright political persecution and racial discrimination" of Chinese students and a violation of their human rights, the ministry's spokesman, Zhao Lijian, The revocation of visas and other anti-Chinese steps by the US "run counter to its self-proclaimed openne…
(2020-09-10). Why Herd Immunity is a Distraction. counterpunch.org 
There has been a spectrum of actions taken by governments to address near-term prevention of the spread of COVID-19. The extremes have ranged from total lockdowns (e.g., Italy, Belgium and Spain); to legal enforcement of quarantines and contact tracing (e.g., Canada and Germany); to much lighter forms of restriction (e.g., Denmark and Norway); to even more minimal restrictions, but with extensive testing and tracing (e.g., Taiwan and South Korea). There have also been some clearly incompetent policies, notably in the United States, where the country's public health infrastructure has been eviscerated not just by…
(2020-09-10). In latest US move vs. China, Pompeo stirs up division in Southeast Asia. liberationnews.org 
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used his platform at the annual foreign ministers' summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on September 10 to bash China and stir up trouble in a region 8,000 miles away from his office in Washington, D.C.
(2020-09-10). Foreign Ministers of Russia, India, China Stress Importance of 'Common Development'. sputniknews.com MOSCOW/NEW DELHI (Sputnik) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov along with his Chinese and Indian counterparts, Wang Yi and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, emphasized the importance of common development and cooperation between their countries to facilitate the global economic growth and stability, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
(2020-09-09). India Lost Its Last Chance To 'Save Face' Before China. thealtworld.com India could have followed the Chinese Defense Ministry's suggestion to investigate the first-ever firearm discharge near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in almost half a century, which could have helped New Delhi "save face" before Beijing by de-escalating this extremely dangerous situation that it's entirely responsible for provoking, but it declined doing so since it's seemingly more important for Modi to "save face" before his domestic audience even if it leads to a disastrous "war by miscalculation" with China. | India Ignored A Priceless Opportunity For Peace | The security situation between India and China…
(2020-09-09). India-China Relations: India Ignored A Priceless Opportunity For Peace. globalresearch.ca India could have followed the Chinese Defense Ministry's suggestion to investigate the first-ever firearm discharge near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in almost half a century, which could have helped New Delhi "save face" before Beijing by de-escalating this …
(2020-09-09). Safety and immunogenicity of Vi-DT conjugate vaccine among 6-23-month-old children: Phase II, randomized, dose-scheduling, observer-blind Study. thelancet.com Both single and two doses of Vi-DT vaccine are safe, well tolerated, and immunogenic for infants and toddlers in a moderately endemic setting.
(2020-09-09). India now second only to US in number of COVID-19 cases, yet continues to expand "reopening" wsws.org With 90,802 new infections on Monday, India registered more COVID-19 cases just on one day than China has recorded since the beginning of the pandemic.
(2020-09-09). The U.S., China, and the New Cold Warriors. counterpunch.org 
On the days when he is not celebrating his friendship and trade deals with China's president Xi Jinping, Donald Trump has sought to hype China as the United States' major enemy in the world. This has meant not only absurd allegations about the pandemic (top Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro has claimed that China deliberately sent infected
(2020-09-09). US the 'main driver' of South China Sea militarization, top Chinese diplomat says. rt.com 
Washington is directly intervening into maritime and territorial disputes in the troubled South China Sea region and becoming the main driver of militarization there to suit its own agenda, a senior Chinese diplomat has said. | Speaking during a video conference with foreign ministers at an ASEAN summit on Wednesday, State Councilor Wang Yi accused the US of fuelling tensions in the region for the sake of its own political gain. | "Peace and stability is China's greatest strategic interest in the South China Sea. It is also the common strategic aspiration of China and ASEAN countries," the diplomat said. | Ch…
(2020-09-09). Report: Huawei Sanctions Would Destroy US Chip Industry. popularresistance.org The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei plans to build its own manufacturing factories to face the US restrictions imposed against it with production lines with zero US components, according to a report published in the Hong Kong digital medium Asia Times. | The online newspaper, quoting David P. Goldman, an economist and analyst specializing in Asian issues, pointed out that there is a good chance that by the end of 2021, Huawei will be able to produce a state-of-the-art chipset from its Kirin line factory within China, without requiring the use of any US equipment.
(2020-09-09). US makes "significant adjustments" to its Taiwan policy. wsws.org Washington's policy changes are designed to give the appearance of adhering to the "One China" policy while actually moving to upend the status quo.
(2020-09-09). Thailand's "Youth Protests" Made in USA. Undermine Thailand Relations with China. globalresearch.ca Imagine the reaction if the Russian government funded programs and events for years inside the US to create youth groups indoctrinated in support of Moscow's interests — particularly in regards to voting in US elections and the shaping of the …