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The official story is that a dangerous new coronavirus was detected in Wuhan, PRC. It had not been isolated, it's identity had not been confirmed. And then in February, the name of the "new virus" was changed to SARS-CoV-2, a virus first detected 20 years ago in 2003.
Pivot to Asia: China is threatened by the US military in the South and East China Sea. War with China is currently on the drawing board of the Pentagon as outlined in a Rand Report commissioned by the US Army
“Covid Tolerance Zero” has contributed to destabilizing Shanghai’s financial sector as well as China's buoyant export economy. It has created social havoc for millions of people. The Chinese Government has now acknowledged that is was based on fake science.
China’s exit in October 1949, from the sphere of US control, was perhaps the heaviest blow to strike American post-World War II global hegemony. China’s successful drive for independence had been anticipated in Washington for many months.
The Twin Threats of Nuclear War and Global Warming By Hans Stehling, September 29, 2019
145,000 Tons of Indian Oil at Risk after US Blacklists Chinese Shipping Companies By Great Game India, September 27, 2019
Hong Kong Protests: Fading Foreign Tantrum, Not Genuine Revolution By Joseph Thomas, September 27, 2019
Challenges to US Hegemony: America Will Remain the World’s Strongest Nation for Years to Come? By Shane Quinn, September 27, 2019
Will China’s Belt and Road (BRI) Diplomacy Facilitate a Rapprochement Between Myanmar and Bangladesh? By Andrew Korybko, September 26, 2019
Trump Regime “War on China by Other Means” By Stephen Lendman, September 26, 2019
From the Western Inspired Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) to the Hong Kong Protest Movement By Miguel Iradier, September 26, 2019
Why Doesn’t India Follow China’s Iranian Oil Policy? By Paul Antonopoulos, September 25, 2019
Hong Kong is Scared – of the Rioters By Andre Vltchek, September 25, 2019
Will the Carcass of Indonesian Infrastructure Really be Revived by Big Business? By Andre Vltchek, September 25, 2019
Humanitarian Crisis in Kashmir: India’s “Economic Opening” Has “Closed Off Kashmir” By Andrew Korybko, September 24, 2019
India, Pakistan, Kashmir: Taking the War Option Off the Table By Zia Mian, Prof. M. V. Ramana, and Sandeep Pandey, September 24, 2019
India’s Prime Minister Modi’s Texas Trip Will Make a Mockery Out of American Democracy By Andrew Korybko, September 22, 2019
A Game-Changing China-Pakistan Proposal for the Afghan Peace Process By Andrew Korybko, September 22, 2019
Burning Amazonia, Denying Climate Change, Devastating Syria, Starving Yemen, Ignoring Kashmir By Prof. Richard Falk, September 20, 2019
The Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan: Is Community Engagement the Key? By Robert J. Burrowes, September 19, 2019
Open Letter to US Congress: Why the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 Must be Opposed By K.J. Noh, Kevin Zeese, and Margaret Flowers, September 19, 2019
Disputing Trump Claims, Japan Says No Evidence Iran Was Behind Saudi Attack By Jake Johnson, September 19, 2019
Here Is How China-US Trade War Impacts Iran By Salman Rafi Sheikh, September 19, 2019
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and The Taliban. Russia’s “Balancing Act” in South Asia and Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko, September 18, 2019
China-Thailand Military Cooperation. Shifting Global Balance of Power By Joseph Thomas, September 18, 2019
On the Ground, Feeling the Pulse of Protest Hong Kong By Pepe Escobar, September 17, 2019
The True Geopolitical Significance of the Hong Kong Protests By Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Emanuel Pastreich, September 17, 2019
Japan-Russia Relations, The Kuril Islands Dispute and the Revival of Suzuki Muneo By James Brown, September 16, 2019
What Role Did the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Soviet Entry into the War Play in Japan’s Decision to Surrender in the Pacific War? By Dr. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Hibiki Yamaguchi, Fumihiko Yoshida, and Prof. Radomir Compel, September 16, 2019
Landmines: Reclaiming the Community One Bomb at a Time: The View from Indochina By Ted Lieverman, September 16, 2019
A Plea to the Youth of Hong Kong By Marcus Papadopoulos and DimSum Daily, September 16, 2019
A Morning in Afghanistan By Kathy Kelly, September 12, 2019
China-India Relations Are Real Shaky Ahead of President Xi’s Unconfirmed Visit Next Month By Andrew Korybko, September 12, 2019
Are India and Japan Challenging the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Russia’s Far East? By Paul Antonopoulos, September 12, 2019
Hong Kong Protest Leader Hangs Out with White Helmets Boss By Makia Freeman, September 12, 2019
Observe 9/11 Anniversary by Calling for an End to the Afghan War By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, September 12, 2019
Video: Color Revolution Comes to Hong Kong By South Front, September 12, 2019
“USA Pretend” Unmasked By S. Brian Willson, September 12, 2019
Iran Together with a “Club of Countries Subjected to Sanctions”, in Solidarity Against US “Economic Terrorism” By Peter Koenig and Press TV, September 12, 2019
Iran’s CPEC-Parallel Pipeline Plans (E-CPEC+) Could Ruin India’s Regional Vision By Andrew Korybko, September 12, 2019
We Are All Hostages of 9/11 By Pepe Escobar, September 12, 2019
China’s Perspective: Economic Growth over Military Spending By Tom Clifford, September 11, 2019
Western Media Portrays Hong Kong Hooligans as Heroes. But Are They? By Andre Vltchek, September 11, 2019
The Hong Kong Extradition Treaty No One Talks About By Eric Sommer, September 11, 2019
“Hands Off Hong Kong” – The Cry that Seldom Is Heard By John V. Walsh, September 10, 2019
US Is Behind Hong Kong Protests Says US Policymaker By Tony Cartalucci, September 10, 2019
Trump-Taliban Talks Like Those with North Korea – A Photo Op on the Deck of the Titanic By Prof. Juan Cole, September 10, 2019
Gandhi Jayanti
Mohandas K. Gandhi vs. Contemporary Leaders By Robert J. Burrowes, September 10, 2019
The Taliban’s Recent Kabul Attack Inadvertently Tanked the Afghan Peace Talks By Andrew Korybko, September 09, 2019
US-Taliban No-Peace “Peace Talks” By Stephen Lendman, September 09, 2019
Trade Wars Are a Fool’s Game By Eric Margolis, September 09, 2019
Will China Invest in Iran’s Transport and Industrial Infrastructure? There are Reasons to be Skeptical By Andrew Korybko, September 08, 2019
The 5G Network: Southeast Asia Ignores US War on Huawei By Joseph Thomas, September 07, 2019
Treadmill of Magic Seeds and Broken Promises: Dismantling the Myth of Bt Cotton Success in India By Colin Todhunter, September 07, 2019
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir: Insufficient Evidence to Blame Russia for MH17 Crash over Eastern Ukraine By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 07, 2019
Mahathir Mohamad
Video: Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr. Mahathir Speaks at the Vladivostok Summit By Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, September 06, 2019
China’s Challenge to American Power? By Shane Quinn, September 06, 2019
A US-Taliban Peace Deal Would Redefine the Regional Balance of Power By Andrew Korybko, September 06, 2019
Welcome to the Indo-Russia Maritime Silk Road By Pepe Escobar, September 06, 2019
Car Manufacturers Caught in Crossfire of Trump’s Trade War By Mike "Mish" Shedlock, September 06, 2019
West’s “Fake News” Begins to Backfire By Joseph Thomas, September 05, 2019
Kazakhstan’s New President Faces His First Test: Anti-Chinese Protests By Andrew Korybko, September 05, 2019
Fear and Loathing Under Modi’s Second Term By Asad Ismi, September 04, 2019
The Russia-Mongolia Strategic Partnership By Padraig McGrath, September 04, 2019
Inevitable Withdrawal: The US-Taliban Deal By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 04, 2019
Russia’s Asian Pivot: The Vladivostok-Chennai Maritime Corridor By Andrew Korybko, September 04, 2019
Trade War
Trump Imposes New Tariffs on China By Nick Beams, September 03, 2019
Venezuela, Ukraine, Hong Kong, … : Color Revolutions and Regime Change, A Modern Scourge Spawning Economic Destabilization and Civil War By Carla Stea, September 02, 2019
How Japanese Scientists Confronted the U.S. and Japanese Governments to Reveal the Effects of Bikini H-bomb Tests By Okuaki Satoru, September 02, 2019
US Dirty Hands All Over Hong Kong Violence and Chaos? By Stephen Lendman, September 02, 2019
For Denuclearization and Non-proliferation, We Need a “Pax Russica-Sinica” By Padraig McGrath, September 02, 2019
United States Withdraws from INF Treaty, Torpedoing Global Arms-Control Structure By Carla Stea, September 02, 2019
Time to Liberate Afghanistan By Eric Margolis, September 01, 2019
Video: The Malaysian Airlines MH17 Tragedy. What is Real, What is Fake? “Highly Likely” Can Mean Anything By Max Van Der Werff, September 01, 2019
US/North Korea Talks Undermined by Pompeo and Bolton By Stephen Lendman, August 31, 2019
GOP Hardliners Want China Sanctioned By Stephen Lendman, August 31, 2019
South Korea’s Withdrawal from the Intelligence Sharing Agreement (GSOMIA) with Japan, Opens a Door to New Peace Paradigm in East Asia By Jeremiah Kim, August 30, 2019
G7 – The Cost of Uselessness By Peter Koenig, August 30, 2019
Are Russia and India Global Partners? The Brahmos Supersonic Missiles, The Russia-China Relationship By Andrew Korybko, August 30, 2019
Cambodia Is Showing How Small Countries Could Stand Up to the US By Andrew Korybko, August 29, 2019
What Is Happening in Hong Kong? By Brandon Turbeville, August 28, 2019
Malaysia: The Najib Razak 1MDB Trial. The Prosecutor’s Opening Statement By Gopal Sri Ram, August 28, 2019
India
New Delhi’s Man in Moscow Is Right, Russia and India Are Global Partners By Andrew Korybko, August 28, 2019
India’s Shadow Banking Crisis Is Intensifying By Kavaljit Singh, August 28, 2019