(2021-08-26). Afghanistan War Is "Cash Cow" for Pentagon. zcomm.org Biden Must End "Delusional" China Rivalry…
(2021-08-26). ANZUS at 70: Together for decades, US, Australia, New Zealand now face different challenges from China. Patricia A. O'Brien, Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, and Adjunct Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University 
(2021-08-26). Corporate Media Politicize WHO Investigation To Vilify China. popularresistance.org FAIR (10/6/20, 6/28/21) has previously critiqued Western news media's credulous coverage of evidence-free "lab leak" speculations. One key factor in spreading suspicion that the coronavirus might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is media's early and ongoing politicization of the World Health Organization's investigation into the pandemic's origins. Much of this politicization weaponizes Orientalist tropes about China being especially, perhaps genetically, untrustworthy—the sort of people who would unleash Covid-19 on the world. | While no new evidence has emerged suggesting that the v…
(2021-08-26). Birth of the Cruel: How Truckee Pioneered Modern Anti-China Hate. counterpunch.org formation of the Caucasian League, a violent, heavy-drinking secret society dedicated to driving Chinese out of the woodcutting business via a campaign of persuasion that looked a lot like intimidation and terror. In 1878 "somebody" set fire to a woodcutter's cabin on Trout Creek in Truckee and shot at the Chinese rushing out to escape and get water to fight the flames.
(2021-08-26). The Dangers of Nuclear War: "Global Stability" Requires the Reintroduction of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), with Inclusion of China. globalresearch.ca …
(2021-08-26). Germany and Australia to work together on China. indybay.org As part of the Indo-Pacific strategy, Germany is deepening political and military engagement with Australia as its main partner in the region. In recent months, Berlin's more active vector in the Indo-Pacific region has been presented as fully meeting the current and promising challenges from the PRC.
(2021-08-26). USA wants its corporations to ditch China. indybay.org The leadership of the United States again raised the issue of the Uyghurs and attempted to provoke an "allergic reaction" of Beijing. The economic agenda goes in parallel with it.
(2021-08-26). Los Talibán, tan lejos y tan cerca de América Latina. globalizacion.ca Afganistán está muy lejos de América Latina y es uno de los países de Asia Central que menos puntos de contacto tiene con nuestra región ya que ni siquiera hubo corrientes migratorias importantes como las hubo de Ucrania, Rusia, China…
(2021-08-25). Putin and XI Cooperate To Prevent Risk Expansion in Asia. telesurenglish.net Through a telephone call made on Tuesday, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping expressed their willingness to cooperate in the fight against the threats of terrorism and drug trafficking that the political situation in Afghanistan could generate. | RELATED: | "Xi called for concerted efforts to encourage all factions in Afghanistan to build an open and inclusive political structure through consultation,…
(2021-08-25). Medea Benjamin: Afghanistan War Is "Cash Cow" for Pentagon. Biden Must End "Delusional" China Rivalry. democracynow.org 
We look at the situation in Afghanistan, and pressure on Biden to stay longer, with CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who for years has called for an end to the longest war in U.S. history. "We didn't want it to end like this, and there should have been better planning in terms of getting people out of the country, but we were very clear we never wanted the U.S. to go in to begin with," says Benjamin. She also warns the end of the War in Afghanistan will encourage the Biden administration to pour more money and resources into a rivalry with China. "It is a delusional idea that we should be focusing on China as…
(2021-08-25). UK Believes Russia And China Can Act As "Moderating Influence" Over Taliban. southfront.org 
Dominic Raab. Illustrative ImageFor London and Washington, the Russian and Chinese posture is a possibility for peace. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. | Apparently, the future of relations between Afghanistan and the West will depend on the level of influence of Moscow and Beijing over the Central Asian country. In a recent statement, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that his country would have to ask the Russian and Chinese governments…
(2021-08-25). Afghanistan recriminations, cover up and calls for anti-China offensive in Australia. wsws.org The shock provided by the ignominious collapse of the US puppet regime in Kabul is particularly profound for Australia's capitalist elite.
(2021-08-25). CODEPINK Urges PBS To Stop Censoring The Truth About China. popularresistance.org CODEPINK's letter, with nearly 4,000 signatures, calls on PBS to stop censoring Peter Getzels' and Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn's documentary film Voices from the Frontlines: China's War on Poverty. The letter addresses how PBS is depriving its viewers of opportunities for learning about collective harmony and equality by censoring this documentary and its insight into China's life-saving policies, which took 100 million citizens out of poverty, at a time when poverty, food insecurity, and houselessness are all at record levels in the United States.
(2021-08-25). Socialism before shareholders: China reins in big tech's unchecked power. peoplesworld.org 
Shareholders beware, socialism is back. That's the warning being sounded by stock market analysts and financial advisors to anyone parking their money in Chinese tech stocks. Behind the investor panic is a stepped-up regulatory campaign by the Communist Party of China that aims to combat inequality, lower living costs for working families, impose order on …
(2021-08-25). Globalink | China's Top Epidemiologist: China Likely To Achieve Herd Immunity by End of 2021. telesurenglish.net China is likely to achieve effective herd immunity by the end of this year with more than 80 percent of the population vaccinated, China's top epidemiologist has said.
(2021-08-25). Australian Cyclist Greco Wins 1st Gold of Tokyo Paralympics. telesurenglish.net Australian cyclist Paige Greco claimed the first gold of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games by winning the women's track cycling C1-3 3,000m individual pursuit event on Wednesday. | RELATED: | Greco covered the distance in three minutes and 50.815 seconds in the final at the Izu Velodrome in Izu of Shizuoka, refreshing the previous C3 class world record of 3: 52.283 she created just hours ago in the qualification. | China's Wang Xiaomei claimed the silver in 3: 54.975, while Ge…
(2021-08-25). US Must 'Stop Slinging Mud' at Others Over Virus Origins, Investigate own Labs: China. orinocotribune.com China has called on the United States to stop pointing the accusing finger at other countries over the lab-leaking theory concerning the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, and to investigate its own bio-labs instead. | Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin made the call on Monday as he stressed that the US side has ignored the conclusion of a joint research report in January by China and the World Health Organization (WHO), which said it was highly unlikely that the virus leaked from a laboratory. | Wenbin censured Washington's slandering of countries over the epidemiological crisis while the US itself…
(2021-08-25). The Drawbacks of a Cold War with China in a Hot World. juancole.com 
( Tomdispatch.com ) — In recent months, Washington has had a lot to say about China's ever-expanding air, naval, and missile power. But when Pentagon officials address the topic, they generally speak less about that country's current capabilities, which remain vastly inferior to those of the U.S., than the world they foresee in the 2030s …
(2021-08-25). Insane U.S. Plan to Spend Billions on Weaponizing Space Makes Defense Contractors Jump for Joy—But Rest of World Cowers in Horror at Prospect of New Arms Race Leading to World War III. covertactionmagazine.com Imagine this scenario from the year 2045: The U.S. and China, after years of belligerence, go to war over control …
(2021-08-25). Webinar debunks 'China lab leak' theory. workers.org 
These excerpts are from a Workers World livestream on Aug. 19, which featured Lee Siu Hin and Sara Flounders. For the full event, wwp.pub/pod or youtu.be/bvWiBVfZnTw. Lee Siu Hin: I was in China in January 2020, when there was a new outbreak from unknown sources causing pneumonia in Wuhan, a . . . |
(2021-08-25). US to create new Pacific fleet to deter China. indybay.org The US administration continues to take steps to contain China's influence. This time, the American side is considering the possibility of deploying a permanent group of national Navies in the Pacific Ocean.
(2021-08-25). China Discovers New Oil Fields Ensuring Its Energy Sector. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | PetroChina has discovered a large shale oil field at the Gulong site in the Daqing field in the Songliao Basin in northern China with reserves exceeding 1 billion tons.PetroChina Company Limited is a Chinese oil and gas company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), headquartered in Dongcheng District, Beijing. The company is currently Asia's largest oil and gas producer and was China's second biggest oil producer in 2006. Traded in Hong Kong and New York, the ma…