(2021-06-07). Our National Security Elite has China on the Brain: Does that really make us Safer? juancole.com 
( Tomdispatch.com ) — Let me start with my friend and the boat. Admittedly, they might not seem to have anything to do with each other. The boat, a guided-missile destroyer named the USS Curtis Wilbur, reportedly passed through the Straits of Taiwan and into the South China Sea, skirting the Paracel Islands that China …
(2021-06-07). Australian Labor Party attempts to protect China-based mining profits. wsws.org Albanese's speech reflected the sharpening economic and geostrategic crisis facing the Australian ruling class, as well as Labor's intensified bid for big-business backing.
(2021-06-07). Trump seizes on "Wuhan lab" lies in North Carolina speech. wsws.org Ex-president Donald Trump appeared as the keynote speaker of the state Republican Party convention in North Carolina Saturday night, embracing the lies against China that have dominated the American corporate media for the past two weeks.
(2021-06-07). Manchin upending entire Democratic agenda. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's announcement that he opposes the For The People Act (S-1 in the Senate) all but guarantees that the sweeping voting rights bill the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress have been backing is all but dead in the water now. The bill was the only chance to undo the …
(2021-06-07). The "Wuhan lab" lie and the political witch hunt against science. indybay.org Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that the world's leading scientists were engaged in a cover-up of the "Wuhan lab" origins of COVID-19.
(2021-06-06). A World at the Edge. tomdispatch.com Let me start with my friend and the boat. Admittedly, they might not seem to have anything to do with each other. The boat, a guided-missile destroyer named the USS Curtis Wilbur, reportedly passed through the Straits of Taiwan and into the South China Sea, skirting the Paracel Islands that China has claimed as its own. It represented yet another Biden-era challenge to the planet's rising power from its falling one. My friend was thousands of miles away on the West Coast of the United States, well vaccinated and going nowhere in Covid-stricken but improving America. As it happens, she's slightly younger than me,…
(2021-06-06). New Report by Corporate-Funded Think-Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China. libya360.wordpress.com Danny Haiphong High-speed bullet train in China. [Source: railwayage.com] A new report published in Railway Age magazine and written by the Information Technology Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has sounded the alarm about China's growing high-speed rail sector. The report comes amid escalations in the U.S.'s New Cold War against China, of which technology is a key…
(2021-06-06). China condemns U.S. for blacklisting Chinese firms. ecns.cn A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday that China firmly opposes U.S. President Joe Biden's signing of an order to ban investment in dozens of Chinese companies.
(2021-06-06). Ellsberg Blows The Whistle Again. popularresistance.org Unbeknownst to most of us, Dan Ellsberg secretly copied another explosive report when he copied the Pentagon Papers fifty years ago. The second classified study documented how close the U.S. came to starting a nuclear war with China in 1958. The NYTimes reports: "When Communist Chinese forces began shelling islands controlled by Taiwan in 1958, the United States rushed to back up its ally with military force — including drawing up plans to carry out nuclear strikes on mainland China, according to an apparently still-classified document that sheds new light on how dangerous that crisis was." | Ellsberg has p…
(2021-06-06). Free Market Illusions: What is the US' Endgame in China? zcomm.org Why does the US advocate a free market while doing its utmost to stifle it? The current US-China economic war is a perfect example of this perplexing question…
(2021-06-06). Does the New York Times Prohibit Its Reporters from Mentioning China's Vaccines? cepr.net That seems to be the case. A few weeks ago it ran a major piece on vaccinating the world. The article never once mentioned China's vaccines (or Russia or India's). It had another piece today on the topic, which again did not mention China's vaccines. Ignoring China's vaccines in the context of vaccinating the world …
(2021-06-06). Over 723 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses administered across China. ecns.cn Nearly 723.49 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered across China as of Thursday, the National Health Commission said Friday.
(2021-06-06). Joe the Revelator. counterpunch.org 
Image by "China has an overall goal … to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world. That's not going to happen on my watch." Joe Biden, March 26, 2021 | There it is, plain and raw, the abiding essence of the American elite's foreign policy laid bare: maintaining their dominance over the world, for their own power and profit. (They certainly aren't doing it for the sake of the nation, which they've turned into a rotting husk.) | In their mind, any perceived threat to…
(2021-06-06). Russia's fun-loving Foreign Ministry spokeswoman laughs off NATO threat. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO meddles in Russia-Belarus affairs to prevent their integration — diplomatRussian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on a statement of NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg NATO summit: West to move China to back burner, Russia and Belarus to the front [Which developments over the past thirty years could possibly cause Zakharova to believe that NATO has …
(2021-06-06). Joe the Revelator. counterpunch.org "China has an overall goal … to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world. That's not going to happen on my watch." Joe Biden, March 26, 2021 There it is, plain and raw, the abiding essence of the American elite's foreign […] | To read this article,
(2021-06-06). [Research Paper] Uncovering transmission patterns of COVID-19 outbreaks: A region-wide comprehensive retrospective study in Hong Kong. thelancet.com With the discovered cross-district or cross-population transmission patterns, all of the waves of COVID-19 outbreaks in Hong Kong can be systematically scrutinized. Among all districts, quite a few (e.g., the Yau Tsim Mong district) were instrumental in spreading the virus throughout the pandemic. Aside from being exceptionally densely populated, these districts were also social-economic centers. With a variety of situated public venues, such as restaurants and singing/dancing clubs, these districts played host to all kinds of social gathering events, thereby providing opportunities for widespread and rapid trans…
(2021-06-06). The "Wuhan lab" lie and the political witch hunt against science. indybay.org Over the past week, the US media and the Biden administration have sought to legitimize the conspiracy theory that the world's leading scientists were engaged in a cover-up of the "Wuhan lab" origins of COVID-19.