(2021-06-26). [Perspectives] Li Song: driving China's maternal and child health transformation. thelancet.com Li Song is not deterred by the responsibilities of her role as Director General of the Department of Women and Children's Health at China's National Health Commission (NHC), a post she has held since March, 2021, having worked in the department for the past 19 years. "I constantly remind myself how women hold up half the sky, and that children are the future of humankind, core values at the heart of our work", she says.
(2021-06-25). China's political party system provides Chinese ideas to the world: white paper. ecns.cn Over the past seven decades and more, China's political party system has grown and matured, providing Chinese ideas to the world in terms of modern party politics, and offering a new model for global political progress, a white paper said Friday.
(2021-06-25). How to manage China… peacefully. nationofchange.org Here are three medium-term strategies that will secure America's interests for the 21st century, solidify its geopolitical influence, accelerate the American economy, and unleash the potential of its allies.
(2021-06-25). Navy Deploying Warships in Indian Ocean Amid Peak in Tensions with China: Indian Defence Minister. sputniknews.com The war of words between India and China has started once again after New Delhi and Beijing accused each other of inciting border tensions in the eastern Ladakh region. Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said that close deployments in Ladakh continue due to a military build-up instigated by China, a claim countered by China's foreign ministry.
(2021-06-25). China calls Biden's comments on Apple Daily 'baseless'. ecns.cn China on Friday slammed U.S. President Joe Biden's comments on the closure of Hong Kong's Apple Daily, calling the remarks "baseless", and restated the arrest of the newspaper's senior executives is not a crackdown on "press freedom."
(2021-06-25). Civil War in Afghanistan Will Threaten Afghanistan, China and Pakistan. counterpunch.org The United States, which has prosecuted a war against Afghanistan since October 2001, has promised to withdraw its combat troops by September 11, 2021. This war has failed to attain any of the gains that were promised after 20 years of fighting: neither has it resulted in the actual fragmentation of terrorist groups nor has it led to the destruction of the Taliban. The great suffering and great waste of social wealth caused due to the war will finally end with the Taliban's return to power, and with terrorist groups, which are entrenched in parts of Central Asia, seizing this prospect to make a full return to Afg…
(2021-06-25). Chinese people are creating the land of their own — Nobel Prize laureate Pablo Neruda's 'The Song of the Land of China'. ecns.cn Throughout his lifetime, Neruda penned many poems extolling people's revolutions around the world. He visited China three times and left behind a number of timeless poems expressing his admiration for the country.
(2021-06-25). Pentagon Employee Warns Biden Against War With China. news.antiwar.com A Pentagon employee who is under investigation for writing op-eds for Chinese state media wrote an open letter to President Biden warning against leading the US into a "major war" with China over Taiwan. Franz Gayl, a former Marine who now advises the Marines Corps as a civilian, wrote two op-eds for China's Global Times …
(2021-06-25). US Now Views Taiwan as an Opportunity to Counter China. news.antiwar.com A senior US diplomat in Taiwan on Thursday said Since Washington severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979, the US had always provided weapons to Taiwan, but in recent years it has taken unprecedented steps to strengthen ties with the island. | Raymond Greene, the deputy director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the de…
(2021-06-25). Dividing the World Into Opposing Camps Is the Road to Armageddon. thenation.com Dividing the World Into Opposing Camps Is the Road to Armageddon…
(2021-06-25). Preventing a return to normal amidst the current catastrophe. roarmag.org 
Protester during the siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University — November 17, 2019. Photo: PaulWong / Shutterstock.com | Towards the beginning of our most recent global catastrophe, writer A.M. Gittlitz published
(2021-06-24). Taiwan Says It Needs To Prepare For War, As UK Warships Move Towards South China Sea. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On June 23rd, Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu warned that Taiwan needs to prepare for military conflict with China. | According to him, China's escalating military intimidation of Taiwan shows the self-governed island "needs to prepare" for a possible military conflict. | His warning came one week after the island reported the largest daily fly over by Chinese military planes into Taiwan's self-declared Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). | The flight included 28 Chinese warplanes, inc…
(2021-06-24). PDF of June 24 issue. workers.org 
Download the PDF. Struggle goes beyond Juneteenth Emancipation and resistance Editorial: Reparations and abolition Pride coverage: Bigotry behind SCOTUS ruling; Atlanta, Buffalo, Cleveland; Also: Consuewella Africa remembered; Reproductive rights under attack; Indigenous victory over pipeline; Kamala Harris & Wall Street; Biden, G7 and NATO. GLOBAL: Peru, Haiti, Palestinian Resistance, China. . . . |
(2021-06-24). Comfortably Numb: the Sackler Oxycontin Cartel. counterpunch.org China has an opium problem — again. And an American family is to blame. As the avid historian of China's insulated dynastic past knows, the Century of Humiliation, from 1839-1939, had as its centerpiece the Opium Wars fought by the Qing dynasty against the British to prevent its subjects going from casual opium users to
(2021-06-24). China Equipped Syrian Army To Combat Turkistan Islamic Party In Greater Idlib — Report. southfront.org 
File image. | China has supplies the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) with military equipment to combat the al-Qaeda-affiliated Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, the Syrian An off…
(2021-06-24). Report: US, China Might Hold Diplomatic Talks Next Week. news.antiwar.com According to a The last time Wang and Blinken met was in March,
(2021-06-24). Civil War in Afghanistan Will Threaten Afghanistan, China and Pakistan. zcomm.org There are two forms of war that exist in Afghanistan.
(2021-06-24). The looming civil war that threatens Afghanistan, Pakistan and China. peoplesdispatch.org The great suffering and great waste of social wealth caused due to the war in Afghanistan is set to culminate with the Taliban's return to power, and with terrorist groups, which are entrenched in parts of Central Asia, making a full return…
(2021-06-24). Final Communiqué of Berlin II: Foreign Forces and Mercenaries Must Leave Libya Without Delay. libya360.wordpress.com The Berlin II conference convened by the German government concluded yesterday and issued a final statement that categorically confirmed its support for the 24 December 2021 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Libya and the withdrawal of all foreign forces and mercenaries without delay. The participants at the Berlin II conference were Germany, Libya, Algeria, China,…
(2021-06-24). COVID-19 outbreak worsens in Taiwan amid vaccine row. wsws.org In addition to the big business-driven chaos of the government's response to the pandemic, the island's vaccine supply has been subordinated to the Biden administration's drive to use Taiwan as a tool to confront Beijing.