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Einar Tangen is a Senior Fellow at Teihe Institute and a Senior Fellow at CIGI. Tangen discusses how China made its supply chains immune to economic coercions and, at the same time, has powerful economic weapons at its own disposal. China's restrictions on rare earth minerals are a powerful instrument, yet the risk of weaponing trade is that other states will diversify away from China.
Almost 35 years after the collapse of the USSR, the republic is experiencing a socioeconomic crisis, rising anti-Sovietism, and dependence on imperialist centers. An analysis by Polat Reymov, the leader of the Uzbek communists, provides a look at the current situation in the context of the struggle waged by the communist parties of the post-Soviet countries, united in the SKP-CPSU. ... read full post
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The lowdown on Nelson Wong’s interview is basically that the US-China trade war is a symptom of a deep-seated clash of worldviews. The US is freaking out because it’s scared China will replace it as the global hegemon, but Wong calls this fear a mental illness rooted in Western thinking that if I rise, you must fall. Meanwhile, China keeps saying, we just want to live our lives, we don't seek hegemony, and we don't need your drama. The problem is that the US is fixated on relative gains being stuck in a zero-sum game mindset instead seeking mutual benefits from trade, so it’s been all threats and bullying instead of sitting down at the table. ... read full post
"Pakistan violated Afghanistan's airspace, bombing a civilian market in the Marghi area of Paktika near the Durand Line and also violating Kabul's sovereign territory," the defence ministry said in a post on social media.
"This is an unprecedented, violent, and heinous act in the history of Afghanistan and Pakistan," it added.
U.S. forces are massing around Venezuela on a scale that goes far beyond counternarcotics operations, the Washington Examiner reports. ... read full post
Western powers are increasingly building strategic relationships with foreign leaders whose records are tainted by allegations of crimes, such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and terrorism. This is a trend of transactional diplomacy, where strategic and security interests now outweigh moral or human rights considerations. Recent developments in Syria, Nigeria, and Kenya highlight how political expediency often supersedes principle in global power dynamics. ... read full post
Let's cut through the Western media cope and look at the material reality. A new report from CSIS lays bare the absolute failure of the imperialist strategy against Russia. It confirms what those of us with a materialist analysis have been saying for years. Russia is is successfully holding its own against the full force of the NATO war machine and its proxy. ... read full post
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Also Merkel previously https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/22/ffci-d22.html
The entire narrative is framed around a single, paralyzing fear that the empire might lose interest. Stoltenberg isn't worried about a military threat from Russia in this extract, what he's terrified of is the withdrawal of the American security umbrella. ... read full post
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