Daily Archives: December 22, 2020

2020-12-22: News Headlines

Dean Baker (2020-12-22). China, Christmas, and the Coronavirus. zcomm.org We lost an opportunity to have worldwide cooperation in the development of vaccines, bringing in not only Europe, but China…

Online News Editor (2020-12-22). World's oldest captive panda dies at 38. laprensalatina.com Shanghai, China, Dec 22 (efe-epa).- The world's oldest panda living in captivity in China has died at the age of 38, official People's Daily reported on Tuesday. Xinxing died at a zoo in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Dec.8. She began to show symptoms of drowsiness and loss of appetite in October. Her condition worsened …

Andrew Korybko (2020-12-22). US Cyber Spy Scandal: Pompeo Blames Russia, Trump Blames China. Why? globalresearch.ca The contradictory claims from Secretary of State Pompeo and President Trump blaming Russia and China respectively for carrying out what's been described by many as one of the most intrusive cyber espionage operations against America in history are confusing for …

Areeb Ullah (2020-12-22). Pakistan Returns $1bn to Saudi Arabia and Turns to China for Loan Assistance. asia-pacificresearch.com

Mehr News Agency (2020-12-22). US return to JCPOA right way for defusing tensions: China. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 22 (MNA) — In a tweet on Tues. China's foreign ministry spox named the US as the main culprit for the current tensions and urged Americans to return to the JCPOA.

WSWS (2020-12-21). COVID outbreak and China tensions expose Australian government bid to claim "recovery" wsws.org The government's own statistics show that more than three million workers remain dependent on poverty-line JobKeeper wage subsidies or JobSeeker dole payments, both of which are being slashed.

D. Raghunandan (2020-12-21). The climate cloud and a thin silver lining. peoplesdispatch.org As many as 45 countries, among them 24 high-emission nations, announced additional cuts than those in their PA commitments by 2030, either at the summit, or over the past few months, despite the sharp economic downturn precipitated by COVID-19.

sputniknews (2020-12-21). Haley Urges US to 'Wake Up' in Light of China's Ambitions to 'Dominate the World'. sputniknews.com US officials have often accused China of allegedly harbouring plans to overthrow the dominant position of the US in the world arena. Tensions between the two countries have existed for the past several years and rose greatly with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the US president claimed China was responsible for its spread.

Leo Panitch (2020-12-21). Empire, socialism and November /w Leo Panitch. mronline.org First, whether the pandemic has fundamentally altered the geopolitical balance between the U.S. and other great powers, specifically China. And second, how socialists in the U.S. should approach the November elections. For Panitch, the two issues are intimately connected.

C.P. Chandrasekhar (2020-12-21). Bilateral swaps in China's global presence. mronline.org China's use of yuan-denominated central bank swaps, while enhancing its influence, is a source of support for developing countries in an unequal international order.

Alan Macleod (2020-12-21). Trump Enacts Sweeping New Sanctions on China, Iran, Venezuela. Biden Promises More To Come. mintpressnews.com The new sanctions come even as an estimated 100,000 people have been killed by American sanctions in Venezuela alone as vital medical equipment and lifesaving drugs have been blocked from entering the country.

teleSUR (2020-12-21). China Slams Law Barring Its Firms From U.S. Stock Market. telesurenglish.net China's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin voiced firm opposition to President Donald Trump's signing into law a piece of legislation that hinders the normal listing of Chinese companies in the United States. | RELATED: | The "Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act" demands additional information disclosure from foreign public companies in the U.S. market, including the requirement that foreign issuers of securities establi…

Shane Quinn (2020-12-21). The US-China Power Struggle, Two Decades of CIA Interference in Tibet. globalresearch.ca Of relevance to the crisis in US-China relations, we bring to the attention of our readers this incisive historical analysis of CIA interference in Tibet by Shawn Quinn, first published in January 2020 | *** | America's position as the world's …

Matthew Ehret-Kump (2020-12-21). Today's China Espionage Scandals Revive the Gouzenko Hoax That Unleashed the Cold War. globalresearch.ca Today, a new coordinated psychological operation has been sprung to convince every living patriot across the Five Eyes sphere of influence that the enemy of the free world who lurks behind every conspiracy to overthrow governments, and western values is…China….

Newsclick (2020-12-20). Now China achieves quantum supremacy — What does this mean? peoplesdispatch.org Chinese quantum computer Jiuzhang achieved quantum supremacy. It is only the second quantum computer to ever do so, after Google's Sycamore. How does this computer work and what does quantum supremacy mean for us?

Direct Action Everywhere (2020-12-20). Saturday 1/9: Online Assembly: What Industrialization Means for Dairy Cows in China (and for us). indybay.org Online Zoom…

_____ (2020-12-19). Capitalism On A Ventilator. popularresistance.org Asian countries have been far more successful than the US in responding to the COVID pandemic, but you'd never know that from the US media. Even most alternative media has been largely US- & Euro-centric. While our domestic issues here are important, we have been missing out on important lessons from other places. | A partial remedy to this dearth of information is provided by the just released, "Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S." The book is an anthology of writing by over fifty activists and independent journalists, edited by Sara Flounders & Lee Siu Hin. | Th…

Holly Sheppard (2020-12-19). The Heat: China's economic goals. america.cgtn.com Senior Chinese policymakers meet to map out the nation's economic blueprint for 2021.

A Guest Author (2020-12-19). How long will Peru last? History weighs on today's events. workers.org By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein The writer was the director of international relations in Venezuela's presidential office and the country's ambassador to Nicaragua. Currently, he is a guest professor at Shanghai University in China. This article was posted at sergioro07.blogspot.com on Nov. 13. Translation: Michael Otto. Mariategui's magazine, Amauta. Credit: Juan . . . |