Asia

Ramzy Baroud: The American diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Chinese Olympics is an example of a politically-motivated boycott.

Michael Klare: The goal is to enable Washington to barricade that country’s military inside its own territory and potentially cripple its economy in any future crisis.

Colleen Moore: Declaring an end to the Korean War is a first step on the long road toward a lasting peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.

Kiji Noh: Chun took power in a coup in 1979, and during his presidency he perpetrated the largest massacre of Korean civilians since the Korean war.

Michael Klare: If you stick with the Pentagon’s way of thinking, things look grim. You would have to assume that Taiwan will continue its present course and that Beijing’s urge to secure the island’s integration with the mainland will only intensify.

Vijay Prashad: Farmers know what they want, and they have said so clearly: price supports, loan waivers, withdrawal of electricity price hikes, repeal of the labor codes, subsidized costs of fuel, and so on.

John V. Walsh: Because you handled the Covid-19 pandemic so well, your economy kept plugging along and we Americans got a bigger supply of cheap goods which of course helps to keep prices in line.

Dee Knight: The Senate also wants a “Countering Chinese Influence Fund” of $300 million per year just to administer the government’s anti-China programs.

K.J. Noh and Michael Wong: China has a track history of setting ambitious, nearly impossible goals and then achieving them—often before deadline—so this pledge is significant.

John Walsh: When a US nuclear submarine with such capabilities has a collision capable of killing U.S. sailors and spilling radioactive materials in the South China Sea, it should be front page news on every outlet in the U.S.

David Vine: Do we want the United States and its supposed enemy to once again squander untold trillions of dollars on military expenditures while neglecting basic human needs?

Danny Haiphong: Built into this war is the fundamental quest to keep China and the rest of the world in a state of dependency on U.S. hegemonic interests.

Mel Gurtov: North Korea might also hope that China will urge South Korea and the US to pay attention to North Korea’s security concerns.

Lawrence Wittner: Instead of denouncing one another for human rights violations, they could admit that they both had oppressed their racial minorities, announce plans for ending this mistreatment, and provide reparations to its victims.

Dee Knight: Xi emphasized that “Democracy is not a special right reserved for any individual country but a right for the people of all countries to enjoy.”

Danny Haiphong: The AUKUS alliance of white colonial states wishes for the evisceration of peaceful socialist development itself

Jeff Mackler: Behind the hoopla about a “new Cold War” is the unrelenting economic competition between the leading world capitalist-imperialist nations

Charles Fredricks: Time and again, when the foreign government of a smaller country tries a little too hard to serve its people, it finds itself in the crosshairs of our country’s policymakers.