Per-Åke Westerlund and Vincent Kolo are members of ISA’s International Political Committee On 14-15 May, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the leaders of the two major imperialist powers, met in Beijing. This was the “stalemate summit” as some media described it, high on ceremony but almost wholly lacking in concrete results. Trump described the meeting […]
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Looking behind the uneasy truce in the US-China trade war 100 minutes was all that was needed for the two “strongmen” heads of the world’s main superpowers to agree a one-year truce in their long-running trade war. The surprisingly brief and therefore light-on-substance meeting in South Korea between Presidents Trump and Xi nevertheless revealed a […]
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The second of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US (part 1) The TikTok deal – if there will be a deal – is an important element in the wider conflict between Donald Trump’s government and the Chinese regime. Using a military analogy, we can […]
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The first of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US (part 2) A popular meme of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is doing the rounds. Trump tells Xi, “I hold the cards”, and Xi replies, “The cards were made in China”. According to some media […]
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US-backed coup in 1965 unleashes one of 20th Century’s biggest mass killings The military crackdown against the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) that began in October 1965 and continued throughout the following year, was one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century with possibly one million people killed. Even the CIA, which conspired with Indonesia’s […]
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The return of Donald Trump as US president marks a turning point for a global capitalist system in crisis and disarray. Trump’s economic and political agenda promises a new level of disruption and conflict in ways that cannot be fully predicted at this stage. The US-China imperialist rivalry, which is the main driving force behind […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. After the short-lived Wagner revolt in Russia on June 24, Xi Jinping’s regime reaffirmed its support for Putin, describing Russia as China’s “comprehensive strategic partner of coordination for the new era.” But Xi’s regime is clearly shaken by these events. For almost 24 hours, as Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenary […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Sudden chaotic exit from hardline pandemic controls leaves cities grappling with explosive COVID surge In response to a wave of anti-government protests in late November the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has pivoted abruptly from its deeply unpopular Zero COVID regime. But for the Chinese masses this is a case […]
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Li Yong and Vincent Kolo are contributors to chinaworker.info. Most significant protests since the 1989 Democracy Movement. At the time of writing police are massing in Chinese cities in an effort to stamp out the recent protest wave. Protests continue at universities. The coming weekend could see new street protests in cities across the country. […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. At the Communist Party’s 20th Congress dictator Xi Jinping made a clean sweep of the party-state’s top organs including the once powerful Standing Committee, but does the purge translate into greater strength or stability? It was never in doubt that at October’s five-yearly CCP Congress Xi Jinping would be […]
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