2021-05-11: News Headlines

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-05-11). China on the horizon as 'world's pharmacy'. mronline.org The World Health Organisation's approval Friday for China's COVID-19 vaccine known as Sinopharm dramatically transforms the ecosystem of the pandemic. | May 11, 2021 | News…

Deirdre Griswold (2021-05-11). Good news from China. workers.org As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage many countries, including the United States, China has announced that it will make millions of doses of its Sinopharm vaccine available for free to the hard-hit countries in the developing world. The announcement came as the World Health Organization declared the Sinopharm vaccine . . . |

Rainer Shea (2021-05-11). Eternal War and Austerity: The Hell that Imperialist Propaganda Demands us to Accept. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — May 8, 2021 | The narrative managers of U.S. imperialism don't want us to think about the mounting evidence that an alternative to our current socio-political system exists. They don't want us to think about how over 800 Chinese million people have been lifted out of poverty in the last generation due due to China's socialist workers democracy, or about the successes that the five Marxist-Leninist countries have had in fighting Covid-19 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or how a multi-polar world order is emerging which is diminishing the deadly reach of the U.S. empire, or how a new wa…

Chris Kanthan (2021-05-11). What America can learn from China — Lessons from the pandemic. nationofchange.org While the China model cannot be transplanted to the West, there's a lot that America can learn from China.

Tom Engelhardt (2021-05-11). Tomgram: Mandy Smithberger, Joe Biden's Pentagon Honeymoon. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Strange, isn't it? Our secretary of state emphatically claims that China has been acting "more aggressively abroad" and behaving "increasingly in adversarial ways." No, he insists, we're not exactly at the edge of a new cold war or …

Dave DeCamp (2021-05-11). Chinese Scholars Say Biden's China Policy Is More Similar to Trump's Than Expected. news.antiwar.com A group of Chinese foreign policy scholars said at a seminar reviewing President Biden's first 100 days in office "Judging from Biden's first 100 days, there is more continuity than the changes that we expected. The Biden administration also has a more focused and systematic approach," said Ni Feng, head of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, according to The S…

Abahlali baseMjondolo (2021-05-11). eKhenana: A background provided in the context of the arrest of Mqapheli Bonono. zcomm.org The achievements of the eKhenana Occupation have been extraordinary.

Global Research News (2021-05-10). Selected Articles: US Encirclement of China. globalresearch.ca By Tensions between Washington and Beijing are not merely the recent results of former US President Donald Trump's time in office — but rather just the latest …

WSWS (2021-05-10). US drive against China sharpens political tensions in the Philippines. wsws.org The bourgeois opposition to President Duterte have formed a coalition party, 1Sambayan, whose fundamental concern is to reorient Philippine foreign relations away from Beijing and back towards Washington.

William I. Robinson (2021-05-10). What are the real reasons behind the New Cold War? mronline.org The U.S. is launching a New Cold War against Russia and China in an attempt to deflect our attention from the escalating crisis of global capitalism. | May 10, 2021 | Newswire…

Observer Research Foundation (2021-05-10). China In Sri Lanka: The Colombo Port Conundrum — Analysis. eurasiareview.com Sri Lanka's Parliament postponed discussion of a bill regarding Colombo Port City, but it is expected to pass.: | By Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan | Since the return of the Rajapaksa brothers to office as president and prime minister in Sri Lanka, Colombo's relations with China have improved dramatically. Earlier in the week, the Sri Lankan Parliament decided to postpone a debate on the controversial Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill that was scheduled for the middle of the week. The bill was seen as supporting China's interests, and tantamount to ceding control over Colombo Port City. It trigg…

_____ (2021-05-10). G7 Or Failed Colonial Powers Telling The World What To Do. popularresistance.org The Foreign Ministers of G7 countries met in London this week and issued a communique painting Russia as a "malicious actor" and China as a "bully". It had little substance apart from ticking all the "right" boxes in its anti-China and anti-Russia campaign: Uyghurs, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Crimea, Ukraine, etc. It ended with arrogating to itself the mantle of being the "rules-based international order", distinct from what the real, lawful international order is, the United Nations and its Security Council. | This is why India's willingness to be a part of "invitees", to wait in the antechamber with Australia, South Ko…

Kamal Iranidoost (2021-05-10). China urges calm, restraint amid Quds flare-up. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 10 (MNA) — China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying called for calm and restraint on Monday amid tensions in east Jerusalem between the Israeli regime's security forces and Palestinian protesters.

Newsclick (2021-05-10). G7 and the US bid to reassert hegemony. peoplesdispatch.org Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the latest G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting, the relevance and implications of the statements of the group and their approach to China and Russia…

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