2021-05-01: News Headlines

Alan Macleod (2021-05-01). In 2018 the US Was at War With Uyghur Terrorists. Now It Claims They Don't Even Exist. mintpressnews.com With China now in the U.S. crosshairs, the ETIM has moved from being an adversary to being a potential asset.

sputniknews (2021-05-01). Advanced Weapons Able to 'Destroy US Satellites' Developed by Adversaries, Warns Space Chief. sputniknews.com Previously, the annual threat assessment report of the US Intelligence community released on 13 April cited a diverse array of threats, magnified by rapidly evolving technology, and warned of the broad national security challenges posed by China and Russia.

sputniknews (2021-04-30). US General Warns China Nuclear Buildup 'On Track to Exceed Previous Projections'. sputniknews.com China's effort to expand its influence was estimated as one of the largest threats facing the United States, according to a major annual intelligence report released on 13 April, which also foresaw Beijing at least doubling its nuclear stockpile over the next decade.

Dave DeCamp (2021-04-30). China Accuses US of 'Cold War Thinking' in Response to Biden's Address. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, Beijing responded to When asked about the speech,

Max Blumenthal (2021-04-30). Xinjiang shakedown: US anti-China lobby cashed in on 'forced labor' campaign that cost Uyghur workers their jobs. thegrayzone.com A campaign against supposed forced labor in Xinjiang has forced Uyghur workers out of their jobs while extracting a handsome payout from a US apparel company to Uyghur exile groups lobbying against China. A self-described "worker rights organization" in Washington DC called the Worker Rights Consortium has helped direct a Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region that has successfully pressured US apparel companies to leave the Xinjiang region of China. Claiming to represent "over 100 civil society …

Max Blumenthal (2021-04-30). Xinjiang shakedown: US anti-China lobby cashed in on 'forced labor' campaign that cost Uyghur workers their jobs. thegrayzone.com A campaign against supposed forced labor in Xinjiang has forced Uyghur workers out of their jobs while extracting a handsome payout from a US apparel company to Uyghur exile groups lobbying against China. A self-described "worker rights organization" in Washington, DC called the Worker Rights Consortium has helped direct a "Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region" that has successfully pressured US apparel companies to leave the Xinjiang region of China. Claiming to represent "over 100 civil society …

Trotskyist Platform (2021-04-30). Let's Win a Minimum Wage and Permanency for All GIG Workers. dissidentvoice.org On February 2, a group of delivery drivers took a brave step. They waged the first strike in Australia's history by gig workers. The workers opposed cuts to their pay rates by the company that they toil for, British-based Hungry Panda. Hungry Panda, while having no operations in China itself, specialises in providing food delivery …

Vijay Prashad — Jie Xiong (2021-04-30). The U.S. is Trying to Light the Match of Islamic Extremism in China's Xinjiang. counterpunch.org Accusations by the United States government and its allies about genocideand forced labor in Xinjiang have brought China's westernmost province into the gaze of the international media. This approach toward Xinjiang defines the information war prosecuted by Washington.

Vijay Prashad (2021-04-30). The U.S. is trying to light the match of Islamic extremism in China's Xinjiang. mronline.org The information war now conducted by the U.S. against China centers on Xinjiang. Once again, the U.S. uses longstanding problems—such as the rise of extremism in Central Asia (fueled to some extent by the U.S. since the 1980s)—to create problems for its adversaries. | April 30, 2021 | Newswire…

Vijay Prashad (2021-04-30). The U.S. is Trying to Light the Match of Islamic Extremism in China's Xinjiang. zcomm.org As with Syria and Libya, Washington once more plays a reckless game with Islamic extremism…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-04-30). Giving War With China a Chance. counterpunch.org Those madly titillated by conflict have become bolder of late in the corridors of the isolated Australian capital. In such spaces, insanity can be nurtured with a sickening attention to detail, much of it fictitious. One of the most powerful bureaucrats of the Australian Public Service has made a contribution to a war dance he

Dongsheng News (2021-04-30). News on China | No. 49. dissidentvoice.org &nbsp…

Staff (2021-04-30). Lifting all illegal sanctions key to success of Vienna talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 30 (MNA) — China's State News Agency said that success of JCPOA talks in Vienna strictly hinges on lifting of all unilateral and illegal sanctions imposed by the United States against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Dave DeCamp (2021-04-30). China Says US Has Ramped Up Military Activity Near Its Coast Under Biden. news.antiwar.com China said on Thursday said that "The US frequently dispatches ships and planes to operate in seas and airspace near China, promoting regional militarization and threatening regional peace and…

_____ (2021-04-30). European Double-Think Blames China for Endangering Peace. strategic-culture.org The double-think and double-standard are patently absurd. But dangerously absurd. | The European Union excelled in double-think this week when it Germany is soon

WSWS (2021-04-30). UK to send largest Carrier Strike Group since Falklands/Malvinas war to South China Sea. wsws.org No Royal Navy force has been mobilised on such a scale since the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas war.

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