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Au Loong-Yu is a long-time Hong Kong labour rights and political activist. Author of China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility and Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China, Au now lives in exile. Speaking with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist (…)
Au Loong-Yu is a long-time Hong Kong labour rights and political activist. Author of China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility and Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China, Au now lives in exile. In this extensive interview, Au discusses China’s global status and its (…)
Au Loong-Yu est un militant politique et des droits du travail de longue date à Hong Kong. Auteur de L’essor de la Chine : force et fragilité et Hong Kong en révolte : le mouvement de protestation et l’avenir de la Chine, Au vit désormais en exil. Dans cette longue interview, Au discute du (…)
China may focus on Palestine to bolster its influence in the Middle East
As Israel’s war on Gaza escalates and becomes an international diplomatic and military crisis, Global Voices wanted to explore how the conflict is perceived in the Chinese-speaking world, not just by government officials (…)
The forum made it clear that Russia is increasingly becoming a client state for China.
The third Belt and Road Forum held in Beijing recently attracted fewer heads of state or senior officials than the previous forums in 2017 and 2019. There were 11 European presidents and prime ministers at (…)
Overshadowed by its relationship with the US, Israel has also long enjoyed fruitful ties with China, now its second-largest trading partner — including a military-tech exchange that has helped the Chinese state repress its own population.
As Israel carries out a massacre of Palestinians in (…)
Beijing believed to be aiming to rival US’s global maritime power and defeat western sanctions, report concludes
China’s military may be planning to build a host of overseas naval bases, as it hopes to protect shipping routes and strengthen its ability to resist sanctions from the US and its (…)
Experts quash claims by Beijing that the Palestinian Authority president’s visit will facilitate new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
The Palestinian Authority president’s imminent state visit to China is believed even by senior Palestinian officials to be aimed at bolstering Beijing’s (…)
Despite China’s economic power, the yuan lags as a major global currency. Here’s why current US interest rates and sanctions on Russia may change that.
The Chinese economy’s sheer size and rapid growth are impressive.
China maintained one of the highest economic growth rates in the world for (…)
‘He is my best friend’: 10 years of strengthening ties between Putin and Xi The Russian and Chinese leaders have met more than 40 times in recent years, fortifying personal and formal relations
A visit by China’s president, Xi Jinping, to Moscow this week has shone a light on his strengthening (…)
China and Russia’s relationship is complex. But China’s decision to support Russia’s war on Ukraine could ultimately come down to China’s own political interests.
China is considering sending weapons, ammunition and drones to Russia, according to information the Biden administration (…)
Ukraine setback weakens Russian position as leaders prepare to jostle for regional influence in Uzbekistan
Major setbacks for Moscow’s forces in Ukraine will further test the “limitless partnership” between China and Russia when their leaders meet this week for the first time since the (…)
Abstract: A secret pact between the Solomon Islands and China, mainly concerned with internal security in the islands, has sparked new US-China competition in the Pacific Island countries. The United States, Australia, and New Zealand worry about a future Chinese base in the Solomons and (…)
This global initiative advanced by the Chinese government lacks much-needed transparency and specific strategies.
China’s well-publicized Belt and Road Initiative to invest in infrastructure projects in other countries has helped it expand its political influence around the world. But a newer, (…)
By the time Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s ten-day tour of the Pacific is over in early June, he will have met with leaders from all ten Pacific island countries that have diplomatic relations with China.
This tour is the second of its kind since 2006 (his predecessor Li Zhaoxing visited (…)
China scored a win with the IMF assigning a higher weight to the yuan in its special drawing rights currency basket. But the currency still has a long way to go before it can challenge the global status of the euro and the US dollar
China has scored a win as the International Monetary Fund (…)
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian forces has led to the most aggressive financial sanctions by Western countries against another country in modern history.
Two financial sanctions stand out in particular. Firstly, the decision to block the majority of Russian banks from SWIFT, the global (…)
Au Loong-yu explores China’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Xi, please ask Putin to withdraw his troops...
And honour your promise of “respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations” – a promise first made by China in the 1955 Bandung Conference, where many (…)
• US spy chief William Burns says Xi’s own intelligence community ‘doesn’t appear to have told him what was going to happen’
• US officials admit that, despite predicting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion plans, they had underestimated Ukraine’s ability to defend itself
China (…)
Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council, the chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, the chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chahar Institute, a professor, and a doctoral supervisor. To read more by (…)
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