The Guardian • Asia
Issue #2061
WEASEL WORDS
Vicious No, not the old Lou Reed song. “Vicious” is how how 9 Newspapers describe Paul Keating’s description of Jens Stoltenberg the secretary general of...
Read moreSocial imperialism: its history and effects
In some sections of the international communist movement today, China is characterised as imperialist, capitalist, or “social imperialist.” Despite being around since the turn of the last century, the phrase “social imperialism” really took flight when the international communist movement split in the 1960s under the weight of the divisions between the Soviet Union and China.
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Issue #2114
USA: possible recession
Is the United States heading into an economic recession? The recent Wall Street upheaval and the panic that spread to global stock markets suggest that...
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Issue #2195
Building the Asia of our dreams
Can the nations of the Global South act together with sovereignty and dignity? Can they build institutions that serve their peoples rather than global capital?...
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Issue #2042
Apartheid complicity
Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley’s 2017 report for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (“Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the...
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Issue #2058
GLOBAL BRIEFS
NIGERIA: Islamic extremists killed at least seven farmers in north-east Nigeria, local authorities said, in an attack that further threatens food security in the hard-hit...
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Issue #2016
Beware the “Asian NATO”
From 28-30th June, NATO leaders met in Madrid, producing a new Strategic Concept and declaring that Russia and China are the key threats to western...
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Issue #2096
GLOBAL BRIEFS
MALDIVES: Almost 284,000 people were eligible to vote in Maldives’ parliamentary elections last Sunday. The island country consists of nearly 2,000 coral islands across 800 km...
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Issue #2011
DINGO
A historical perspective brings into sharper focus US imperialism’s strategies in the Asia-Pacific since WW2. The victory over fascism – German Nazism and Japanese militarism,...
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Issue #2120
Japan: New PM calls for ‘Asian NATO’
Japan’s new prime minister, Ishiba Shigeru has called for the creation of an ‘Asian NATO.’ It can only heighten tension in the region. What the...
Read moreMarxism-Leninism missing in Gen Z uprisings
In recent years the world has seen Gen Z protests across Asia, Middle East, and Latin America. Armed with smartphones they are globally connected. They...
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