Daily Archives: June 8, 2021

2021-06-08: News Headlines

Danny Haiphong (2021-06-08). Off the Rails: New report by Corporate-funded think-tank reveals how profit-driven motives drive New Cold War against China. mronline.org The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world | June 8, 2021 | Newswire…

Tom Engelhardt (2021-06-08). We Don't Have Time to Waste on Cold Wars. thenation.com We Don't Have Time to Waste on Cold Wars…

WSWS (2021-06-08). US further escalates tensions over Taiwan as Biden prosecutes anti-China campaign. wsws.org Washington's donation of vaccines to Taiwan is another provocative step to undermine Beijing and challenge the "One China" policy.

Alec Dubro (2021-06-08). China at the Edges. counterpunch.org China is the world's fourth largest country by landmass. It's nearly three times bigger than India, with roughly the same population. It spans roughly four time zones (but uses only one). Its terrain encompasses desert, jungle, plains and river valley—and everything in between. It has 9,000 miles of coastline. In other words, it's big. But

Editorial Team (2021-06-08). Traces of COVID-19 found in Barcelona in March 2019, according to university report. challenge-magazine.org The new findings from Barcelona revealed by the study have not induced a surge in anti-Spanish or anti-Catalan sentiment in the west, further unveiling the ideological nature behind the sinophobic attacks. The US and UK do not blame COVID-19 on China with a well-meant intention to bring about justice for the pandemic, but rather to further their own geopolitical motives.

Ron Jacobs (2021-06-08). Bipartisan Fear, Bipartisan Aggression: China and The United States. counterpunch.org This past spring, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a bill to the Senate floor called the Strategic Competition Act of 2021. Sponsored by Democrat Menendez from New Jersey and Republican Senator Misch from Idaho, the bill is perhaps the most important piece of legislation regarding US policy towards China in Congress now. It certainly is one of the most belligerent. In short, the legislation is an attempt at further governmental involvement—from the Pentagon to those agencies dealing with trade and commerce—in the ever-intensifying economic rivalry between the United States and the People…

WSWS (2021-06-08). Australia, New Zealand prime ministers "in lockstep" over China. wsws.org The leaders' communiqué stressed the solidarity of both prime ministers with the Biden administration's aggressive positioning against China and preparations for war.

Ramzy Baroud (2021-06-08). Free Market Illusions: What is the US' Endgame in China? counterpunch.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. The legacy of Milton Friedman, the founder of America's modern political economy, was a representation of this very dichotomy: the use, misuse and manipulation of the concept

Jorge Elbaum (2021-06-08). Estados Unidos — Fronteras infinitas. globalizacion.ca La ofensiva de Washington para impedir que China se convierta en la primera economía mundial. El último jueves de mayo, el Presidente de Estados Unidos Joe Biden ordenó a las 16 agencias de inteligencia dependientes de su gobierno la elaboración…

WSWS repost (2021-06-08). 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.

WSWS repost (2021-06-08). "Wuhan lab" theory proponent Nicholas Wade pushed racist pseudo-science in 2014 book. indybay.org The New York Times and Washington Post are citing a serial fabricator whose 2014 book was condemned by the biologists whose research he cited, together with more than 140 other scientists.

Tom Engelhardt (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 …

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2021-06-07). Beijing and Hanoi Boost Military Cooperation in South China Sea. globalresearch.ca Beijing is preparing …

Emanuel Pastreich (2021-06-07). Wuhan Lab Upheld as Source of COVID-19: China as a Target. Corrupt Political Circus on Behalf of Super-Rich. globalresearch.ca The commercial media …

John Wojcik (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 …

WSWS (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.

WSWS (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.

WSWS repost (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.

WSWS repost (2021-06-07). "Wuhan lab" theory proponent Nicholas Wade pushed racist pseudo-science in 2014 book. indybay.org The New York Times and Washington Post are citing a serial fabricator whose 2014 book was condemned by the biologists whose research he cited, together with more than 140 other scientists.

WSWS (2021-06-07). "Wuhan lab" theory proponent Nicholas Wade pushed racist pseudo-science in 2014 book. wsws.org The New York Times and Washington Post are citing a serial fabricator whose 2014 book was condemned by the biologists whose research he cited, together with more than 140 other scientists.

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