2021-06-09: News Headlines

Tom Engelhardt (2021-06-09). A Formula for National (In)Security. counterpunch.org 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 USSCurtis 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.

WSWS (2021-06-09). Australia's Murdoch media and the Wuhan COVID-19 lab conspiracy theory. wsws.org The Murdoch media is working to pave the way for an even greater war crime than the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a US-led assault on China, through the systematic promotion of lies, innuendo and bogus intelligence.

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-09). Biden to Set Up 'Strike Force' to Go After China on Trade. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-09). Senate Passes Massive $250 Billion Legislation to Counter China. news.antiwar.com The Senate on Tuesday The effort was led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). "The world is more c…

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-09). US Senators Fly to Taiwan on Military Plane, Angering China. news.antiwar.com In the latest show of US support for Taiwan, Senators Dan Sullivan (D-AK), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Chris Coons (D-DE) arrived in Taiwan aboard a C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane to announce the US was donating 750,000 Covid-19 vaccines to the island. According to Reuters, US officials typically visit Taiwan in unmarked private jets. | On Tuesday, China deno…

Staff (2021-06-09). Chinese Parl. slams American bill on 'Tech Threat' from China. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA) — Chinese Parliament expressed opposition against the US' approved bill addressing 'Tech Threat' coming from China.

WSWS repost (2021-06-09). "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.

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-08). US Sides With Malaysia in South China Sea Dispute With Beijing. news.antiwar.com The US military On May 31st, Malaysia said it scrambled jets and saw the Chinese warplanes over the South China Sea, about 60 nautical miles from the Malaysian state of Sarawak, which is located on the island of Borneo. | Whenever there is an incident in the region between China and its neighbors, the US is quick to get invol…

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…

_____ (2021-06-08). Blinken Props Up Biden in European Charade for New Cold War. strategic-culture.org Blinken is staying close to his boss during the whirlwind tour, because Biden is liable to spin out of control and reap an embarrassing collapse. | It's a big ask for a frail 78-year-old U.S. president to rally the world around a series of myths and falsehoods. Biden flies to Europe this week to galvanize allies under strong American leadership of supposed shared "democratic values" in a "historic confrontation" with the "autocracies" of China and Russia. | President Joe Biden's worldview is so disconnected from reality that it is going to prove difficult mentally for him to consistently and coherently make the…

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…

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.

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…

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-08). CENTCOM Chief Warns of Russia and China's Influence in the Middle East. news.antiwar.com As the US military is shifting focus to China and Russia, the top US commander in the Middle East is framing Washington's presence in the region as a bulwark against Russian and Chinese influence. | On Monday,

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.

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

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

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.

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