The Chinese ambassador to the UN speaks at the UN General Assembly on June 8, defending China’s veto of the US-drafted resolution to put further sanctions on North Korea. (Photo: Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China) The two nations defended their earlier veto against the UN Security Council resolution to impose further sanctions …
Image: China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian By BO Staff Writer China has cautioned that certain political elements in Japan have been misusing the Ukraine issue as a guise “to deliberately play up external threats and fish for stronger military forces and capability”. It called on Japan to look at its past, respect the …
By Benjamin Norton The United States constantly intervenes in the internal affairs of Latin America, organizing coups d’etat, destabilizing independent governments, trapping nations in debt, and imposing sanctions. Washington sees the region as its own property, with President Joe Biden referring to it this January as “America’s front yard.” Seeking alternatives to US hegemony, progressive …
President Hassan Rohani, Iran, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @jobcamaguan Iran’s President Hassan Rohani Wednesday urged members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to curb U.S. attempts to extend sanctions against his country. Next October, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a 2015 nuclear deal popularly known as “The Arms Embargo”, will be lifted …
By Andile Mngxitama When the COVID-19 pandemic broke in South Africa (SA) we asked the government to seek assistance from Cuba and China. But that option was not profitable for white monopoly capital (WMC) like Aspen which needed more infections and deaths. Now at over 4000 testing positive for the infection and almost 100 deaths …
By Andile Mngxitama We need to be extremely careful not to become USA agents against China. In the bigger scheme of things, China is a friendly force that, from time to time, offends against us. The USA, on the other hand, is the enemy force that seeks to further enslave us to it. The USA …
Chinese scientists at the forefront for the search of a vaccine for the coronavirus. | Photo: EFE Authorities at a maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus outbreak emerged last December, rejected claims that they could be the source of the COVID-19 surge, following recent accusations by the President of the United States, …
12 March 2020: A staff member inside an empty classroom of a school in Kochi, after the Kerala state government ordered schools across the state to close because of coronavirus fears. (Photograph by Reuters/ Sivaram V) This overlooked region of India is a beacon to the world for taking on the coronavirus, with the leftist …
By Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist March 11, 2020 The United States has none of the systems or infrastructure that would allow it to accomplish what China has done to fight mass infection. The only thing more frightening than the COVID-19 virus spreading around the world is the knowledge that this country is woefully unprepared …
Fighting COVID 19 in Cuba, China and the United States By W. T. Whitney Jr. March 19, 2020 Governments, according to Thomas Jefferson, are supposed to guarantee people’s rights to “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” COVID 19 has out people’s lives and health in the spotlight now. What kind of tools do governments …