(2021-06-15). American navy aircraft carrier enters South China Sea. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — A US aircraft carrier group led by the USS Ronald Reagan has entered the South China Sea.
(2021-06-15). NATO Ramps Up Rhetoric Against China & Russia. Is Biden Leading the U.S. into a New Cold War? democracynow.org 
China says NATO is adopting a "Cold War mentality" after the military alliance singled out China and Russia for criticism during a summit in Brussels. In its final communiqué, NATO leaders said, "China's stated ambitions and assertive behavior present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order." NATO leaders also criticized Russia and called on Moscow to withdraw troops from Ukraine, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova. Stephen Wertheim, a historian of U.S. foreign policy, says he is concerned that the Biden administration is "moving toward a quite hostile posture toward China and Russia simultane…
(2021-06-15). Headlines for June 15, 2021. democracynow.org China Blasts "Cold War Mentality" as Biden Pushes NATO to Declare China a Security Risk, WHO Says G7 Vaccine Pledge Falls Far Short of What's Needed to End Pandemic, COVID-19 Surges in Unvaccinated African Nations; Chile Locks Down Santiago Despite Vaccinations, Brazilian Indigenous Leaders March Against Copa América, Demanding Vaccines, Not Soccer Matches, U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Top 600,000, the Worst Toll in the World, NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Released from Prison, Sen. Mitch McConnell Suggests Republicans Won't Confirm Biden SCOTUS Nominees After 2022 Election, Boeing to Resume Campaign Contributions to…
(2021-06-15). In workplace rights debate, who's looking out for China's interns? mronline.org 
Fueled by pandemic restrictions and a glut of qualified applicants, competition for internship slots is growing fiercer all the time. | June 15, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-06-15). NATO summit threatens China, at US instigation. wsws.org NATO concluded its summit Monday with a communique targeting China as a "systemic challenge" to the military alliance.
(2021-06-15). From G7 to NATO meetings, imperialist powers turn more aggressive towards China. peoplesdispatch.org In both the crucial summits of global north nations, political leaders led by US president Joe Biden, made sweeping and unsubstantiated charges against China…
(2021-06-15). On Contact: Dying For An iPhone. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Professor Jenny Chan about the people in China who make iPhones, iPads and Kindles, driving the huge profits of two of the world's most powerful companies — Foxconn, the world's largest provider of electronics manufacturing services, and Apple with its $2 trillion market value. | Jenny Chan, along with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, did extensive field research for almost a decade to produce their book, 'Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China's Workers'. What they show is that workers in China earn a fraction of what unionized workers in the Unite…
(2021-06-15). NATO Summit: Building Unity against Russia, China, Cyberattacks. popularresistance.org NATO members at its first in-person gathering since 2018 have adopted a new 2030 strategic concept proposed by Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. The joint communiqué of the bloc's 30 nations said that they agreed further to strengthen NATO in the face of any threats. | "[We will] strengthen NATO as the organizing framework for the collective defense of the Euro-Atlantic area, against all threats, from all directions," the statement said. | The alliance members have stated that they are facing "systemic competition from assertive and authoritarian powers" as well as growing security challenges. They specifically…
(2021-06-15). Huge disconnects in US-G7 pronouncements. indybay.org The global Covid pandemic has glaringly exposed several giant disconnects in the policy intentions of the Gang of Seven(G7, also euphemistically self-labeled as "market democracies"!). At the conclusion of the latest meeting in England, the joint statement focused on 2 blatant unsubstantiated charges on China and a "dodgy" commitment to send vaccines to needy countries.
(2021-06-15). Chinese warplanes swarm around Taiwan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — Over a dozen warplanes took off from China and triggered radar stations in Taiwan early Tuesday.
(2021-06-15). China warns NATO ahead of 2021 summit. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — China's mission to the European Union called on NATO to stop exaggerating the "China threat theory" after the group's leaders said that the country presents "systemic challenges".
(2021-06-15). Iran wins Iraq in FIFA WC Asian Qualifiers to top Group C. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) — National Iranian men's football team defeated Iraq 1-0 to gain the top spot at the Group C of the Asian Qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023.
(2021-06-15). China Promoted To Full-Fledged NATO Enemy, Ukraine And Georgia Abandoned In The Rain. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On June 14th, after years of rhetoric, China officially joined the list of NATO enemies alongside Russia. | "The strongest and most successful alliance in history" also politely asked Russia to remove the US and Czech Republic from its "unfriendly country list" as it promoted ill spirit."China's stated ambitions and assertive behaviour present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order and to areas relevant to alliance security," the 30 NATO leaders said in a joint communi…
(2021-06-15). NATO Summit: Confronting China, Russia, and the World. news.antiwar.com The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ended its summit in Brussels on June 14 and issued a communiqué listing achievements since the last summit and a blueprint to take the military bloc to its next one in 2022. The representatives of the thirty-nation alliance also endorsed the 67-page document used to prepare the summit's discussions and …
(2021-06-14). Philippines Extends Military Deal Allowing US Troops in the Country. news.antiwar.com The Philippines on Monday temporarily Last year, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte informed the US that he was scrapping the deal over US sanctions on Philippine officials. Duterte was ready to kick US troops out of his country but reversed the decision over tensions with China in the South China Sea. | Monday's extension was the third time the Philippines suspended the decision to scrap the VFA. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin said the…
(2021-06-14). The G7 Declaration Embodies Cold War Thinking, China Says. telesurenglish.net After their three-day meeting in Cornwall (UK), the Group of Seven (G7) leaders on Sunday issued a statement that they grossly interfered with China's internal affairs on issues related to Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. | RELATED: | Although some parts of the document speak of the need to promote global development, the final objective of that declaration would seem to be a call to counteract the economic rise of Chin…
(2021-06-14). An Analysis of China's Borderland History Offers a Left Case for the Uyghurs. counterpunch.org This essay discusses the frontier borderlands of East Asia from the seventeenth through nineteenth century. I analyze Chinese dynastic political practice, its legacy on early twentieth and twenty-first century geopolitics, as well as the need for American progressive positioning regarding the Uyghurs. In my view, commentary on this issue needs to be firmly rooted in leftist opposition to international human rights abuses, (Pukr) while resisting Sinophobia, US militarism, and Cold War exaggeration and intervention. I highlight these borders by looking at multiple frontiers geographically and thematically. Generall…
(2021-06-14). Anti-imperialists protest the 2021 Brussels summit of NATO. peoplesdispatch.org 
Anti-imperialist protesters allege that the NATO summit in Brussels served to step up its policy of confrontation which threatens to trigger a new Cold War with Russia and China…
(2021-06-14). Justice is Global Releases New Report Revealing Danger of Anti-China Narratives. peoplesaction.org Report Illustrates How Anti-China Politicians and Narratives Feed Anti-Asian Racism Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C.—Justice is Global today released a new report detailing the danger that anti-China narratives pose towards Asian people in the United States. Based on interviews with leading researchers, journalists, organizers, and advocates, the report explains how the rise in …
(2021-06-14). Algerians boycott elections as Hirak movement demands total overhaul & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the parliamentary elections held in Algeria amid a mass boycott called by the Hirak movement, protests against police brutality by working-class communities in Tunisia, the increasingly anti-China stance taken by the G7 countries and the joint communique released by the group after the Summit in the UK, and the continuing demands for justice for the victims and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire in the UK 4 years after the tragedy.
(2021-06-14). NATO Summit: Building Unity against Russia, China, Cyberattacks. telesurenglish.net NATO members at its first in-person gathering since 2018 have adopted a new 2030 strategic concept proposed by Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. The joint communiqué of the bloc's 30 nations said that they agreed further to strengthen NATO in the face of any threats. | RELATED: | "[We will] strengthen NATO as the organizing framework for the collective defense of the Euro-Atlantic area, against all threats, from all di…
(2021-06-14). Huge disconnects in US-G7 pronouncements. indybay.org The global Covid pandemic has glaringly exposed several giant disconnects in the policy intentions of the Gang of Seven(G7, also euphemistically self-labeled as "market democracies"!). At the conclusion of the latest meeting in England, the joint statement focused on 2 blatant unsubstantiated charges on China and a "dodgy" commitment to send vaccines to needy countries.
(2021-06-14). Washington puts pressure on Sri Lankan government over Beijing-funded Colombo Port City. wsws.org The port city project is a component of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative, a geo-strategic plan aimed at countering the US-led efforts to encircle China.
(2021-06-14). Global Campaign Continues Call to Free Hong Kong. dsausa.org 
State violence and authoritarianism have only gotten worse in Hong Kong since the 2019 protests that brought more than 2 million Hongkongers to the streets. On June 12, 2021, people in more than 50 cities worldwide joined together to say "Free Hong Kong." | Hong Kong, once a colony of the United Kingdom, became a Special Administrative Region of China when it was returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Under the "one country, two systems" policy, Hong Kong was supposed to maintain political and economic independence until at least…
(2021-06-14). Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Reveals US Weighed 1958 Nuclear Strike on China. truthout.org 
As President Biden meets with leaders of NATO countries, where he is expected to continue stepping up rhetoric against China and Russia ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Wednesday in Geneva, we speak with famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about why he recently released another classified document showing that U.S. military planners in 1958 pushed for nuclear strikes on China to protect Taiwan from an invasion by communist forces. The top-secret st…
(2021-06-14). Targeting Russia and China Instead of the Real Enemy — Capitalist Inequality. strategic-culture.org Capitalism and its inequality is the number one enemy of today's world. That is the objective and empirical reality that is staring the world in the face, Finian Cunningham writes. | U.S. President Joe Biden and his Western allies are trying to frame global challenges in a way that ultimately avoids dealing with the most urgent problem that really matters — the explosion in inequality under the capitalist economic system. | The poverty, hardship and litany of social problems, including the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, that stem from the grotesque inequality that capitalism produces are — and shoul…
(2021-06-14). Number Of Nuclear Warheads Went Down, As 'Combat Ready' Nuclear Arsenal Grew In 2021. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The global nuclear arsenal grew in 2021, despite the overall number of nuclear warheads going down, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) The nine nuclear-armed states—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)—together possessed an estimated 13,080 nuclear weapons at…
(2021-06-14). 50 Years After Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg Reveals US Weighed 1958 Nuclear Strike on China over Taiwan. democracynow.org 
As President Biden meets with leaders of NATO countries, where he is expected to continue stepping up rhetoric against China and Russia ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Wednesday in Geneva, we speak with famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about why he recently released another classified document showing that U.S. military planners in 1958 pushed for nuclear strikes on China to protect Taiwan from an invasion by communist forces. The top-secret study revealed the U.S. military pressed then-President Dwight Eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainlan…
(2021-06-14). 50 Years After Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg Reveals U.S. Weighed 1958 Nuclear Strike on China over Taiwan. democracynow.org As President Biden meets with leaders of NATO countries, where he is expected to continue stepping up rhetoric against China and Russia ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Wednesday in Geneva, we speak with famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about why he recently released another classified document showing that U.S. military planners in 1958 pushed for nuclear strikes on China to protect Taiwan from an invasion by communist forces. The top-secret study revealed the U.S. military pressed then-President Dwight Eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainlan…
(2021-06-14). China's crypto crackdown spreads to Qinghai and Xinjiang. mronline.org 
Last month, the two regions were warned about missing energy intensity reduction targets. | June 14, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-06-14). NATO summit: confronting China, Russia and the world. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO summit: confronting China, Russia and the worldRick Rozoff The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ended its summit in Brussels on June 14 and issued a communiqué listing achievements since the last summit and a blueprint to take the military bloc to its next one in 2022. The representatives of the thirty-nation alliance also endorsed the …
(2021-06-14). Biden targets China in executive order for review of foreign-based apps. wsws.org By signing the directive, Biden has moved to keep the core of the Trump administration's anti-Chinese tech policy intact while seeking to block the global expansion of apps such as TikTok and WeChat with a more comprehensive strategy.
(2021-06-14). G7 summit issues threats against China and Russia. wsws.org While spending trillions on their armed forces, the world's wealthiest countries refused to do anything to seriously combat the pandemic, which is claiming millions of lives.
(2021-06-14). NATO Summit: Confronting China, Russia and the World. libya360.wordpress.com Rick Rozoff The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ended its summit in Brussels on June 14 and issued a communiqué listing achievements since the last summit and a blueprint to take the military bloc to its next one in 2022. The representatives of the thirty-nation alliance also endorsed the 67-page document used to prepare the summit's…
(2021-06-14). Chinese Embassy in UK blasts G7 statement. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Beijing has previously slammed the group of seven as outdated, saying "the days when global decisions were dictated by a small group of countries are long gone".