Bulletin: The Coming Trade Blow-Up
How a book published twenty years ago predicted Trump’s trade war with China.
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The US Started Both the Old and New Cold Wars
In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the US desire for global dominance was responsible for the Cold War — and why the United States is inflaming new rivalries with Russia and China today.
Where Are All the Robots, Anyway?
Automation is booming in rural China, the strongholds of the US auto industry, and the world’s oldest countries.
Chess in the Cloud
The battle between the US and China over global hegemony has moved to the technological arena. But what we really need is a democratic digital commons.
Chinese Workers Are Facing Escalating Repression
The new working class created by China’s transformation has been learning how to organize and demand a better deal with help from labor NGOs and left-wing activists. But a crackdown on oppositional activity under Xi Jinping has made their job a lot harder.
Stop the Arms Race Madness
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fed calls for the West to radically step up its own military spending. An arms race only increases the risk of a conflict between China and the US — a global disaster that we must do everything in our power to prevent.
The COP26 Deal Was Another Betrayal of Climate Justice
Western governments have tried to blame China and India for the COP26 flop. But it was the rich capitalist states of Europe and North America that refused to accept the just demands of the world’s poorest nations, leaving us still on course for disaster.
Trump’s TikTok Ban Is All About Fueling a Cold War With China
Trump's TikTok ban isn't about protecting digital security. It's simply a bid to rile up his base by stoking nationalism and anti-Chinese sentiment.
We Can’t Let Tech Companies Use This Crisis to Expand Their Power
Whether in China or the United States, tech companies are teaming up with governments to boost surveillance amid the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a slippery slope that threatens to bring more civil liberties violations and more power for profit-hungry tech companies.
The Communist Party vs. China’s Labor Laws
President Xi Jinping’s support of a recent crackdown on workers’ attempts to organize a union is part of a broader centralization of power and repression of basic rights.
Japanese Militarism Has Put the People of Okinawa on the Firing Line
Okinawans have long campaigned against the massive US military bases that dominate their island. But the Japanese state is pressing ahead with a new base against their will, placing the island on the front line in a region made more dangerous by US saber-rattling against China.
Liberals Are Increasingly Embarking on Dangerous Flights from Reality
Democrats like to think of themselves as “reality-based” people who “follow the science.” But lately, they have been engaged in irrational fearmongering over Russia and China that is reminiscent of their disastrous Cold War–era paranoia about the Soviets.
Hong Kong’s Trade Unions Are Under Attack
The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions has dissolved after months of media and government attacks. It’s a blow to worker organization across China.
Americans Still Don’t Want War, Despite the Military-Industrial Complex’s Best Efforts
Over the past year, the US public has been subjected to an avalanche of propaganda attempting to stoke future war with Russia and China. What’s stunning is how few Americans are buying it.
Aligning With Washington Is Bad News for Argentina
Argentina’s biggest trade partners are Brazil and China, but President Javier Milei is making them into enemies. Desperate to suck up to US interests, Milei’s Cold Warrior foreign policy is an ideological relic, out of touch with a multipolar world.
Tim Ryan Is Testing the Limits of Workerist Liberalism
Tim Ryan’s nostalgia-laced fight to recapture postindustrial Ohio for the Democrats offers a glimpse at one possible future for the party in an era of cultural polarization and a rising China. But it’s not a future anyone should feel excited about.
The South’s EV Boom Is an Organizing Challenge for Labor
Thanks in part to investments from the Inflation Reduction Act and tariffs on China, the US South is seeing a boom in electric-vehicle manufacturing. The industry’s expansion in the mostly nonunion region presents an urgent organizing challenge for labor.
Evicting the Underclass
China’s campaign to expel migrant workers from Beijing is designed to wring more profit from urban land and reserve the city for elites.
How Europe’s “Trash Market” Offloads Pollution on Its Poorest Countries
For decades, Europe’s big economies outsourced the problem of pollution by literally shipping their trash to China. When Beijing banned the toxic trade in 2018, it could have served as a wake-up call — but instead, the big polluters have rerouted their garbage to low-wage, low-regulation countries inside the European Union.
Bob Menendez Isn’t Merely Corrupt. He Carried Water for a Brutal Dictator.
Bob Menendez’s cartoonish bribery case — complete with gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz — isn’t just exhibit A in Washington corruption. It’s a reminder that US allies like Egypt’s dictatorship, not Russia or China, are often the ones meddling in US politics.