How the White House turned “China bought us time” into “China lied, people died” and put the world at risk Tuesday, 23 June 2020 “Let’s blame China” has become the lazy go-to for so many politicians and media lacking the will to think outside the Trump administration box, it’s tragic. Literally. Stupefied […]
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Anna Chen – 5 October 2019, US targets China We all know the United States of America was built on an ancient Native American burial ground, courtesy of European immigrants. Another original sin was slavery; kidnapping men, women and children from Africa for the brute workforce that built so much of America’s wealth. Then there’s
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Donald Trump’s attempted hostile takeover of China’s economy continues apace. The Chinese walked into an ambush when they presented their latest round of changes last week thinking they were still negotiating. Kicked off by Reuters’ “exclusive” briefing by “three U.S. government sources and three private sector sources”, the media then fell in with Trump and trade representative Lighthizer’s narrative that the Chinese “reneged” on a deal that was already sewn up.
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The USA writes itself a victim narrative in which poor little America is bullied and ripped off by China, formerly one of the poorest countries in the world, now looming in America’s rear-view mirror. Will Donald Trump press the big, red button in 2019?
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Anna Chen – 13 November 2018, trade war History repeats itself: Trump’s fantasy trade-deficit is an excuse for carving up China So the west is at it again, carving up the juicy market of 1.4 billion (EDIT 1.386bn in 2017) human beings that is China. I suspect most people have twigged by now that US
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Five stars for Heathcote Williams’ American Porn poetry collection: balancing passion and disgust on a razor’s edge Seems like we are all stuck in a science-fiction writer’s coma dream, so deeply weird have been events of the past year. The culmination was the installation by electoral college (as opposed to popular vote) of our Orange
