https://znetwork.org/category/place/asia/china/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:16:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/asia/china/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-china-is-defying-trumps-tariffs-on-iran-trade/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-china-is-defying-trumps-tariffs-on-iran-trade/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:16:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293627 When President Trump announced in January that the United States would impose a sweeping 25 percent tariff on any country trading with Iran, the move was framed in Washington as economic pressure on Tehran. In Beijing, it was read very differently: not as an Iran policy, but as another chapter in America’s expanding use of economic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-china-is-defying-trumps-tariffs-on-iran-trade/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-is-the-threat-of-a-good-example/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-is-the-threat-of-a-good-example/#respond Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:00:24 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293617 “Chinese-style modernization presents itself as a possible alternative path to the Western capitalist model, especially important for Global South countries that are seeking to break free from the shackles of colonization and imperialism.– The Editors, Monthly Review[i] China will join hands with all countries to explore ways to reform and improved global governance, working together to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-is-the-threat-of-a-good-example/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-venezuelan-battleground-us-regime-change-v-chinese-economic-cooperation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-venezuelan-battleground-us-regime-change-v-chinese-economic-cooperation/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:01:47 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293188 In the early hours of January 3, 2026, Venezuela’s President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were dragged from their bedroom and transported to New York. Having been months in-the-making behind the back of the U.S. Congress, the military raid involved more than 150 aircraft and drones, likely causing tens of deaths and far more [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-venezuelan-battleground-us-regime-change-v-chinese-economic-cooperation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-colonialism-stupid/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-colonialism-stupid/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:51:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293181 What happened in the early hours of January 3 in Caracas left the world stunned. But the strongest reason for astonishment is the fact that the world was stunned. What happened had been widely predicted. Since when? The less informed would say since Donald Trump came to power. But it is mainly since the publication [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-colonialism-stupid/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ai-race-and-the-space-race-can-great-power-rivals-inch-toward-cooperation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ai-race-and-the-space-race-can-great-power-rivals-inch-toward-cooperation/#respond Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:50:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293043 At the July 2025 launch of America’s AI Action Plan, President Trump said that the country is in a fast-moving competition to develop groundbreaking technology that may well determine the global balance of power. He pledged that the U.S. would do whatever it takes to lead: “America is the country that started the AI race, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ai-race-and-the-space-race-can-great-power-rivals-inch-toward-cooperation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-good-things-that-happened-in-2025/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-good-things-that-happened-in-2025/#respond Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:24:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292944 It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But we also had real victories that moved us closer to a better world. Here are some of my highlights from 2025: 1. Israel was forced to negotiate a ceasefire In October, a ceasefire [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/10-good-things-that-happened-in-2025/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/africa-deindustrializes-due-to-chinas-overproduction-and-trumps-tariffs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/africa-deindustrializes-due-to-chinas-overproduction-and-trumps-tariffs/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:21:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292854 At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23 utterly failed in its mandate to cut the continent’s foreign debt and assure that appropriate climate-finance grants will be available. Nevertheless, even while the world economy’s value chains suffer disfigurement thanks to Donald [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/africa-deindustrializes-due-to-chinas-overproduction-and-trumps-tariffs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-proof-is-in-the-pudding-a-few-comments-on-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-proof-is-in-the-pudding-a-few-comments-on-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics/#respond Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292712 Anyone interested in socialism in the twenty-first century must take into account what is happening in China seriously. It’s future economic supremacy will either shape global capitalism, which socialists worldwide will have to respond to or the future of socialism will be determined by China’s planned transformation toward a socialist economy. Jan Turowski1 China has [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-proof-is-in-the-pudding-a-few-comments-on-socialism-with-chinese-characteristics/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-and-the-trump-corollary-to-the-monroe-doctrine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-and-the-trump-corollary-to-the-monroe-doctrine/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292504 On 10 December 2025, U.S. forces seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, carrying over a million barrels of crude. “Well, we keep [the oil],” President Trump told reporters. Venezuela’s foreign ministry called it “blatant theft and an act of international piracy,” adding: “The true reasons for the prolonged aggression against Venezuela have finally [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-and-the-trump-corollary-to-the-monroe-doctrine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-national-security-strategy-is-a-renewed-plan-for-global-hegemony/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-national-security-strategy-is-a-renewed-plan-for-global-hegemony/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:20:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292213 The Donald Trump administration revealed the US empire’s new plan for global dominance in the 2025 National Security Strategy. The goal is to impose hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, to move supply chains out of Asia and bring manufacturing into Latin America via “nearshoring”, in order to economically decouple from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-national-security-strategy-is-a-renewed-plan-for-global-hegemony/feed/ 3 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-us-national-security-strategy-is-repackaged-wolfowitz-doctrine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-us-national-security-strategy-is-repackaged-wolfowitz-doctrine/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:18:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292201 ]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/new-us-national-security-strategy-is-repackaged-wolfowitz-doctrine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-imaginary-peace-president/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-imaginary-peace-president/#respond Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292029 One of the most common claims about the Trump 45 administration is that “He didn’t start any new wars.” This is demonstrably FALSE. During his first term, Trump became the ultimate causal agent for every one of the current conflicts with Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela. He not only maintained the trajectory of these conflicts [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-imaginary-peace-president/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-cant-end-the-war-in-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-cant-end-the-war-in-ukraine/#respond Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:40:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291785 Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia’s top oil companies, but the United States still can’t stop the war in Ukraine. NATO’s goals cannot be met, as the world is increasingly multipolar and Western power is declining. To discuss in this episode of Geopolitical Economy Hour, geopolitical economist Radhika Desai analyzes the conflict with journalist Anatol [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-trump-cant-end-the-war-in-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/provoking-china-again-macedonias-unlearned-lessons/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/provoking-china-again-macedonias-unlearned-lessons/#respond Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:20:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291760 A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and Road Initiative, news broke that the Vice Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament, accompanied by two MPs, formally received a Taiwanese parliamentary delegation. The visit came less than two weeks after the new Ambassador of the People’s Republic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/provoking-china-again-macedonias-unlearned-lessons/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-desert-turns-green-via-25-years-of-youth-led-efforts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-desert-turns-green-via-25-years-of-youth-led-efforts/#respond Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291659 Amid the chilling wind of an early winter morning, Nong Haojun, a 26-year-old PhD student, set out toward an experimental field deep in the interior of the Maowusu Desert, one of the major deserts in China’s northwest. This was his final trip this year to collect soil data after a six-month stay focused on wilderness [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-desert-turns-green-via-25-years-of-youth-led-efforts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dutch-confronted-china-it-didnt-go-well/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dutch-confronted-china-it-didnt-go-well/#respond Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:37:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291576 Seizing control of a Chinese-owned tech firm was a bold move for the Dutch government — straining the European Union’s relations with Beijing. Economy Minister Vincent Karremans shocked the business world in September by invoking never-before-used powers to take the reins at semiconductor firm Nexperia, a subsidiary of Chinese firm Wingtech. At the time, his ministry warned [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-dutch-confronted-china-it-didnt-go-well/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-china-is-turning-climate-action-into-economic-strategy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-china-is-turning-climate-action-into-economic-strategy/#respond Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291411 If global climate diplomacy feels stuck, China’s new 2035 roadmap offers a reminder that ambition and realism can coexist. As world leaders gather in Belém, Brazil for COP30, the stakes could not be higher. The planet is warming faster than most governments are acting. Yet amid stalled commitments and wavering political will, Beijing’s steady march toward a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-china-is-turning-climate-action-into-economic-strategy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/japans-push-toward-aggressive-militarist-ambitions-raises-alarms-for-asia-pacific-and-world-peace/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/japans-push-toward-aggressive-militarist-ambitions-raises-alarms-for-asia-pacific-and-world-peace/#respond Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:35:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291303 Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has triggered a sharp political storm across East Asia through her recent, highly provocative comments suggesting that a conflict in the Taiwan Strait could meet Japan’s criteria for a “survival-threatening situation.” Such a designation under Japan’s controversial 2015 security legislation could permit the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to intervene militarily even without a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/japans-push-toward-aggressive-militarist-ambitions-raises-alarms-for-asia-pacific-and-world-peace/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reimagining-engagement-with-china-over-investments-in-global-south/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reimagining-engagement-with-china-over-investments-in-global-south/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:48:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291236 A new map from the Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas) documents the lessons from cases of local engagement with projects in the Global South involving Chinese investments. The aim of the initiative is to foster collaboration among civil groups focused on Chinese investment projects: to share strategies that have been effective in promoting transparency and reducing the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reimagining-engagement-with-china-over-investments-in-global-south/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-perilous-norm-of-weapons-testing/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-perilous-norm-of-weapons-testing/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000 On October 29, just before meeting with China’s President XI Jinping, President Trump posted on the right-wing social media network Truth Social that “because of other countries [sic] testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.” The U.S. stopped testing nuclear weapons in 1992 [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-perilous-norm-of-weapons-testing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-cia-mossad-set-up-sudan-for-genocide-since-the-1990s/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-cia-mossad-set-up-sudan-for-genocide-since-the-1990s/#respond Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:14:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290889 Sudan is being systematically destroyed – not by accident, but by design. This investigation reveals how US imperialism, through Israeli and UAE proxies, has engineered Sudan’s collapse since the 1990s to crush the axis of resistance, block China’s Belt and Road, and loot Africa’s resources families are killed, children starve, and the west profits.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-the-cia-mossad-set-up-sudan-for-genocide-since-the-1990s/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-big-deal-the-trump-xi-meeting-in-korea/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-big-deal-the-trump-xi-meeting-in-korea/#respond Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290822 Promises, Promises The much-awaited meeting in Korea between Pres. Trump and Pres. Xi Jinping promised—according to Trump—a major trade deal. The Chinese seemed prepared to offer much less. In remarks to Trump, Xi repeated Chinese refrains about the need for cooperation, stressed that the business relationship is the “anchor and driving force” in China-US relations, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-big-deal-the-trump-xi-meeting-in-korea/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/us-china-trade-war-washington-wants-a-new-century-of-humiliation/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/us-china-trade-war-washington-wants-a-new-century-of-humiliation/#respond Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:15:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290285 The U.S.-China trade war heats up as the Dutch government seizes Nexperia — a Chinese owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands — under pressure from the Trump administration. What are the implications of this trade war on Europe and the rest of the world? This week, Vijay Prashad joins Amanda Yee to discuss the latest [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/us-china-trade-war-washington-wants-a-new-century-of-humiliation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cold-war-2-0-is-against-china/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cold-war-2-0-is-against-china/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:12:24 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288212 “Globally, all available resources are to be focused on a zero-sum increase in U.S. power and on the defeat of China as the newly arising rival.” — John Bellamy Foster, “The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism” On September 3, China staged a grand gathering of over 20 foreign leaders to commemorate the 80th [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cold-war-2-0-is-against-china/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china/#respond Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:58:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287980 Over the past two decades, the posture of the United States toward China has evolved from economic cooperation to outright antagonism. US media outlets and politicians have engaged in persistent anti-China rhetoric, while the US government has imposed trade restrictions and sanctions on China and pursued military buildup close to Chinese territory. Washington wants people [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/russia-china-reject-attempt-of-e3-to-reimpose-sanctions-on-iran-over-nuclear-program/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/russia-china-reject-attempt-of-e3-to-reimpose-sanctions-on-iran-over-nuclear-program/#respond Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287926 France, the United Kingdom and Germany (the “E3”) on Thursday sent a formal letter to the UN Security Council asking for snap back sanctions on Iran over its nuclear enrichment activities, which they maintain breach the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or nuclear deal. The joint letter of the three governments complains that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/russia-china-reject-attempt-of-e3-to-reimpose-sanctions-on-iran-over-nuclear-program/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-black-hole-in-collective-memory-china-and-world-war-ii/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-black-hole-in-collective-memory-china-and-world-war-ii/#respond Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:40:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287808 As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military parade. Speculation swirls about which world leaders will join President Xi Jinping—Putin’s presence is all but certain, though whispers of Trump attending seem far-fetched. Some peace advocates argue this moment offers a chance [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-black-hole-in-collective-memory-china-and-world-war-ii/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-techno-determinism-and-techno-pessimism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-techno-determinism-and-techno-pessimism/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:16:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287438 Artificial Intelligence is very much in the news these days, so I decided to do a critical analysis of one of works discussing AI on the bestseller lists, The Coming Wave, by one of the key figures identified with its development, Mustafa Suleyman. Blurbs promoting The Coming Wave contain all the usual hyperbole from experts and notables. For [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-techno-determinism-and-techno-pessimism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prioritizing-great-power-rivalry-with-china-trumps-strategy-to-reassert-us-dominance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prioritizing-great-power-rivalry-with-china-trumps-strategy-to-reassert-us-dominance/#respond Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:54:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287161 The Trump administration has taken a sledgehammer to the existing domestic and international order. All the damage it has done can appear to be just a cynical smash and grab operation for Donald Trump and his fellow lumpen capitalist cronies. It is that, but it is not just that. The rational core of Trump’s project is laid out by the Heritage [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prioritizing-great-power-rivalry-with-china-trumps-strategy-to-reassert-us-dominance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/academic-witch-hunt-u-s-arrests-chinese-scientists-in-dangerous-escalation/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/academic-witch-hunt-u-s-arrests-chinese-scientists-in-dangerous-escalation/#respond Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:28:44 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1287009 The US arrested two Chinese researchers on National security-related charges for “smuggling” research materials into the US. But are these researchers really “agro-terrorists” posing a serious threat to US security, or are they the scapegoats in a rising cold war witch hunt against China? Join Linda Wan of Code Pink, Bob McMurray, and Judge Julie [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/academic-witch-hunt-u-s-arrests-chinese-scientists-in-dangerous-escalation/feed/ 0