2021-06-16: News Headlines

C.J. Atkins (2021-06-16). U.S. pushes NATO to target China, risking new Cold War. peoplesworld.org Watch what they do, not just what they say. That's the only conclusion to reach when assessing the stance taken toward China by the NATO countries this week. Several leaders at the U.S.-led military alliance's summit in Brussels tripped over themselves in front of the press to claim they are not seeking a new Cold …

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-16). NATO's post-summit mission: build global alliance against China, Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO's post-summit mission: build global alliance against China, RussiaRick Rozoff After the one-day NATO summit in Brussels concluded on Monday, the bloc's general secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, gave an address before members of the Western press corps, answering several questions. His comments consisted of a summary of the results of the summit, which was a mere …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-16). NATO's Post-Summit Mission: Build Global Alliance against China, Russia. libya360.wordpress.com Rick Rozoff After the one-day NATO summit in Brussels concluded on Monday, the bloc's general secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, gave an address before members of the Western press corps, answering several questions. His comments consisted of a summary of the results of the summit, which was a mere formality ("All leaders agreed that…Europe and North America…

Howard Lisnoff (2021-06-16). The Streets Are Empty. counterpunch.org Hardly anyone gives a damn about military adventures anymore. When the US continues its presence in war-torn Syria, when US global presence expands across the world with over 700 military bases, when NATO pushes against the borders of Russia, when US military strategy calls for encircling China ("This is no exercise-US wants to encircle China

Paul Street (2021-06-16). American Backstory, While Biden Struts Abroad. counterpunch.org France's vacuous to repressive neoliberal president Emanuel "Hot for Teacher" Macron says that "America is back," by which he means that the United States has returned, post-Trump, to its leadership role atop the world's rich so-called democracies (outwardly constitutional de facto bourgeois class dictatorships) at the G7 meetings in Europe. | U.S. President Joe "Nothing Will Fundamentally Change" Biden on Sunday boasted in England that "America is back at the table," leading the charge against grave challenges like "China." | Let's take a look back at some facts of U.S.-American life that are escaping serious "f…

Kamal Iranidoost (2021-06-16). China says will not tolerate any intervention in Taiwan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — The Chinese government said Wed that it does not tolerate any intervention in Taiwan issues and has to make strong responses to such acts of "collusion".

DLI (2021-06-16). 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.

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-16). China Sends 28 Warplanes Through Taiwan's ADIZ in Response to US Drills. news.antiwar.com A day after a US aircraft carrier strike group The flights marked the largest number of Chinese planes flying through the ADIZ since Taiwan's Defense Ministry began disclosing the flights last September. China typically sends a significant numbe…

Anonymous103 (2021-06-16). Hot Air Messaging: Iran Floats Reports Of Imminent Shanghai Cooperation Organization Membership. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Written by Eager to enhance its negotiating leverage with the United States and Europe, Iran is projecting imminent membership of the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in much the same way it pushed the signing of a much-touted 25-year cooperation agreemen…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-16). Creating Enemies: China Reacts to NATO Targeting It. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @

L. Ali Khan (2021-06-16). China's Flawed Claims to Internal Sovereignty. counterpunch.org In 2019, a U.N. report analyzed China's Counter-Terrorism Law as applied to the residents of Xinjiang. The report asserted that the reeducation facilities, also known as "vocational training centers," are effectively detention camps because of their coercive nature. The Chinese authorities have forced between 1 million to 1.5 million Uighurs into these facilities. There are

Staff (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.

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-15). US Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Enters South China Sea. news.antiwar.com Stoking tensions with Beijing, the US sailed an aircraft carrier strike group into the South China Sea on Monday. The Navy described the provocation as a "routine" mission. "Carrier operations in the South China Sea are part of the US Navy's routine presence in the Indo-Pacific," the Navy said. The presence of…

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-15). Pentagon Considering Creating New Anti-China Naval Task Force. news.antiwar.com According to a Sources told Politico that the plan would include creating a named military operation for the Pacific that would allow the Pentagon to release more funding for Navy operations in the region. | The Politico report said the naval task force would be based on a Cold War-era NATO construct known as the…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-15). 'Anti-encroachment' demolitions target Karachi's working class and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the ongoing 'anti-encroachment' drive affecting poor and working class communities in the city of Karachi in Pakistan, the joint communique presented by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its anti-China and anti-Russia stance, the violent attack on a protest against the police killing of Winston Smith Jr. in the city of Minneapolis and the ongoing struggle by Indigenous communities and climate activists against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline in the US.

_____ (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…

teleSUR (2021-06-15). Russia, China Ties Reaffirmed Before Putin-Biden Geneva Summit. telesurenglish.net Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden both downplayed expectations on their upcoming meeting on Wednesday, and Chinese experts said the most significant expectation for Biden in the meeting in Geneva is to stabilize US-Russia relations and split China-Russia ties as much as he could, but this won't work anyway. | RELATED: | Biden's recent trip in Europe has been focused primarily on the…

Staff (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.

Staff (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".

Kamal Iranidoost (2021-06-15). Iran wins Iraq, advances to next stage as Group C leader. 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.

Kamal Iranidoost (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.

DLI (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.

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-15). Creating Enemies: China Reacts to NATO Targeting It. news.antiwar.com After months of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg mercilessly — tediously — denouncing Russia and China ahead of yesterday's summit, the communiqué issued after it finally raised China's ire. Two of the document's 79 points addressed China. The second was conciliatory; the first was confrontational. It was the first time the 30-nation military bloc so …

Rick Rozoff (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 …

Anand Naidoo (2021-06-15). The Heat: NATO summit. america.cgtn.com NATO leaders declare China a global security challenge. We will take a look at why.

Anonymous007 (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…

Eds. (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…

WSWS (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.

Anish R M (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…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-15). China Responds to NATO. libya360.wordpress.com Rick Rozoff After months of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg mercilessly — tediously — denouncing Russia and China ahead of yesterday's summit, the communiqué issued after it finally raised China's ire. Two of the document's 79 points addressed China. The second was conciliatory; the first was confrontational. It was the first time the 30-nation military…

Rick Rozoff (2021-06-15). Creating enemies: China reacts to NATO targeting it. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Creating enemies: China reacts to NATO targeting itRick Rozoff After months of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg mercilessly — tediously — denouncing Russia and China ahead of yesterday's summit, the communiqué issued after it finally raised China's ire. Two of the document's 79 points addressed China. The second was conciliatory; the first was confrontational. It …

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