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Jan 18, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Harsh Thakor |Megan Russell |zeenat khan |Bharat Dogra
ToSmt Nirmala SitharamanUnion Finance MinisterDear Smt Sitharaman,Please refer to my letter of August 27, 2024 addressed to you on the urgency involved in reviving the CPSE, RINL, preferable by merging it with SAIL. I have just come across an official press report (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2093843) that the Union Cabinet has at last decided to extend a financial package of Rs 11,440 crores.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Megan Russell |Binoy Kampmark |zeenat khan |Bharat Dogra
With the Tiktok ban just days away, American youth have started flooding the Chinese social media app RedNote, pushing it into #1 position on the app store. Labeled “Tiktok refugees” by Chinese netizens, the newcomers have been welcomed by app users with open arms, curiosity, and a fair bit of humor.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
globalresearch.ca | Megan Russell
Thomas Friedman probably thought he was being clever when he titled his most recent article “How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S.-China Relations.” It’s a headline meant to catch your attention– appealing to the Swifties, who think Taylor can save the world, the Musketeers, who are certain Elon can save the world, and, of course, their anti-fans who follow their every move with just as much zeal, and perhaps even more.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |John Foster |Megan Russell |Kim Petersen
The U.S.-China Business Council report on “U.S. Exports to China 2023” reveals that $151.3 billion worth of American goods were exported to China, supporting over one million U.S. jobs. According to the American Bureau of Economic Analysis, an official U.S. government agency, “In 2023, U.S. exports of goods and services to China were $195.5 billion, down 0.9% from 2022, while imports from China were $447.7 billion, down 20.6% from 2022.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Walden Bello |Megan Russell |Binoy Kampmark
The most important and unprecedented aspect of world in recent decades has been that for the first time there are human made factors that threaten the basic life-nurturing conditions of the entire planet. These life-nurturing conditions are threatened mainly due to two factors. Firstly we have accumulation of weapons of mass destruction, application of AI to them, steps towards space warfare and related issues.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Megan Russell |Rob Maurer
The US orders China to contribute more to countering climate change, all while treating China’s growing dominance over the “green economy” as a security threat. The US orders China to contribute more to countering climate change, all while treating China’s growing dominance over the “green economy” as a security threat. Earlier this month, US climate envoy John Podesta met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to discuss climate financing for the upcoming years.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
nationofchange.org | Megan Russell
Image Credit: Liu Rui/GT Earlier this month, U.S. climate envoy John Podesta met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to discuss climate financing for the upcoming years. The U.S. has long criticized China’s approach to confronting the climate threat, and continuously pushes Chinese leaders to do more.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Megan Russell
Earlier this month, US climate envoy John Podesta met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to discuss climate financing for the upcoming years. The US has long criticized China’s approach to confronting the climate threat, and continuously pushes Chinese leaders to do more.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Walden Bello |Megan Russell |Richard Heinberg
In 1992 an appeal by the Union of Concerned Scientists and about 1575 other scientists (including 99 of the 196 living Nobel laureates) issued as World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity, which called for saving the essential life-nurturing conditions of our planet, had attracted a lot of attention. After 25 years a follow up appeal was issued, and this time it was signed by as many as about 14,000 scientists.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
original.antiwar.com | Megan Russell
In war, there are no winners – and in a war between the US and China, the entire world would lose. That’s not just considering the mass loss of life that would occur, but also the reverberating effects of war that would sink millions into economic devastation, destroy the environment, and lead to widespread displacement and human rights atrocities. The potential use of nuclear weapons is often disregarded as a side note, but it shouldn’t be.
