(2021-06-12). Biden Advances Anti-China Agenda At G7 Summit. popularresistance.org This weekend's G7 summit in the UK will be dominated by US President Joe Biden's efforts to consolidate an anti-China axis. | In a piece for the Washington Post published last Saturday, Biden stated that his mission is to ensure that the US and its allies "not China or anyone else write the 21st century rules around trade and technology." His comments echo his speech to Congress this April when he said, to a standing ovation, "We're in competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century." On Tuesday, the US Senate passed a $250 billion "China competitiveness bill" in preparation for escalating trad…
(2021-06-12). Australian government steps up key role in US aggression against China. wsws.org The Australian prime minister aligned himself lockstep behind US President Joe Biden's demand at the G7 and NATO summits for an alliance of the supposed "free world"—the major imperialist powers—against Beijing.
(2021-06-12). News on China | No. 54. dissidentvoice.org  …
(2021-06-12). [Comment] Anticoagulation in COVID-19: reaction to the ACTION trial. thelancet.com Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that coagulopathy leading to macrovascular and microvascular thrombotic events was a considerable potential complication for patients with COVID-19.1 Increased inflammation and coagulopathy were independently associated with critical illness and all-cause mortality and had a synergistic role in the pathogenesis of COVID-19.2 Early observations of a benefit from heparin3 in a selected cohort of severely ill patients with COVID-19 in China, followed by reports of increased thromboembolic events in patients with COVID-19 (both in and outside of intensive care units [IC…
(2021-06-12). [World Report] China's three-child policy. thelancet.com News that the Chinese Government will allow up to three children per couple will do little to boost startlingly low fertility rates, predict experts. Megan Tatum reports.
(2021-06-12). Osama's Ghost: The Economics of Overextension. zcomm.org Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation…
(2021-06-12). Lifting of sanctions key to conclusion of Vienna talks: China. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — China's representative in talks on reviving JCPOA in Vienna said in an interview that lifting sanctions is key to any agreement on Iran's nuclear program.
(2021-06-12). 6th round of JCPOA Joint Commission kicks off in Vienna. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — The 6th round of Joint Commission meeting of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) started in Grand Hotel Wien in Vienna on Saturday in presence of delegations of Iran and P4+1 (Germany, France, Russia, China and UK).
(2021-06-12). China to Set Up Group to Enforce New Anti-Sanctions Law. news.antiwar.com In the face of mounting Western sanctions, China's National People's Congress Standing Committee passed an anti-sanctions law on Thursday to take action against the pressure. Under the law, The law gives China the power to take action
(2021-06-11). 'Paranoid Delusion': Beijing Fumes as US Senate Passes Massive Anti-China Tech Bill. orinocotribune.com Beijing has accused Washington of exhibiting "paranoid delusion" and "Cold War mentality," after the US Senate passed a new bill aimed at bolstering the position of American tech in competing with China. | The foreign affairs committee of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, blasted the new US legislation on Wednesday, accusing Washington of seeking to undermine the country's "legitimate right to development through technology and economic decoupling." | The legislation is "full of Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice," and the Chinese parliament is voicing "strong indignation and resolute…
(2021-06-11). Biden advances anti-China agenda at G7 summit, takes Johnson to task over Brexit. wsws.org The G7's leaked draft communiqué centres on calls for a new World Health Organisation investigation into the origins of Covid-19, promoting the noxious lie that the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
(2021-06-11). La riesgosa apuesta de China por la diplomacia de las vacunas. globalizacion.ca América Latina está siendo la región que mayores daños sufre por la pandemia de coronavirus, en gran medida porque Brasil representa 'la tormenta perfecta', con altas tasas de contagios y escasos controles, según afirma el profesor Domingo Alves de la…
(2021-06-11). The Heat: U.S.-China technology race. america.cgtn.com 
The U.S. Senate unveils an aggressive new strategy to counter Chinese technology advances.
(2021-06-11). Johnson, Biden confer on Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 11 (MNA) — The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden discussed Iran, China, and Russia during their meeting in UK's Cornwall.
(2021-06-11). Austin Says It's Critical to Have a Communication Line With China. news.antiwar.com With US-China relations at their lowest point and decades, an accident between the two nations' militaries could easily spark a full-blown war. US warships and warplanes are constantly operating near China's coast, and that activity is increasing, making a miscalculation more likely. | Recognizing the sensitive situation, although not enough to reduce forces in the region,
(2021-06-11). Heavy Fighting in Northern Afghanistan, 180 Killed in Past 24 Hours. news.antiwar.com Last weekend Afghanistan saw some of the heaviest fighting in years. The trend is continuing Thursday, Badakhshan is the furthest northeast part of Afghanistan, bordering China. More than a dozen districts are suddenly being contested there alone, and 70 districts are now seeing fighting nationwide. The Taliban have been hitting several districts, with security forces in some in open retreat, while security…
(2021-06-11). West Adds Belarus to New Axis of Evil. news.antiwar.com So far this year, and ahead of next week's NATO summit in Belgium, the commanders of the Pentagon's Unified Combatant Commands and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg have denounced and thundered against Russia and China as rivals and adversaries in every part of the world, with Iran and North Korea identified as second-tier threats. All …
(2021-06-11). No Matter What's Happening in China, the West is Likely to be Surprised by It. counterpunch.org The rise of China caught the West by surprise. So has China's decline. Sure, China is having a good pandemic. Life since the initial COVID outbreak in Wuhan is pretty much back to normal. Few restrictions are in place in Beijing or Shanghai. But globally? China is the new bogeyman. In corporate speak its brand
(2021-06-11). Cracks in the Republic: a Soft National Break-Up is Already Underway, Is a Hard One Coming? counterpunch.org By early summer 2019 when I went up on Disautel Pass to ponder prospects for a national break-up, it was clear something was coming. It was easy to read the tea leaves in the daily news. But I could not have imagined what was coming, or how fast. In early 2020, a coronavirus from Wuhan,