Engels on China
From Comments at The Virtual Politician: philstanfield Worth considering: ‘The war in China has given the death-blow to the old China. Isolation has become impossible; the introduction of railways,...
View ArticleThe Lucky Country – Part Five: The Luck of a Laid-back, Happy People is...
Peter Hartcher, ‘China vents its anger at Australia’s stand on airspace rights’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 03.12.13 China is angry at Australia, and when the doors closed on the meeting room in...
View ArticleWill Capitalist Nations go to War with China?
SHANE MCLEOD: China’s role in Australia’s economy continues to grow – it’s now our biggest trading partner and vies with Japan as our biggest export destination. But there are some who believe that...
View ArticleReply to Shamseer Keloth’s ‘Facing the Dragon’
* * * Hello Shamseer Keloth, Congratulations on your article, China will rapidly come to have an impact on the world that no nation has had. Where the one-party state of the Soviet Union collapsed...
View ArticleFurther Comment on Shamseer Keloth’s ‘Facing the Dragon’
* * * Hello Shamseer Keloth, Of cognition Lenin wrote ‘From living perception to abstract thought, and from this to practice, – such is the dialectical path of the cognition of truth, of the...
View ArticleAustralians, prepare for your ‘best friend’s’ call
‘Australia has a role to play in pushing back against China – Bush adviser’, John Garnaut, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30.10.14 Australia will be expected to draw clear red lines and “push back” against...
View ArticleChina’s barefoot doctors
Barefoot doctors (Chinese: 赤脚医生; pinyin: chìjiǎo yīshēng) are farmers who received minimal basic medical and paramedical training and worked in rural villages in the People’s Republic of China. Their...
View ArticleWhat capitalist societies can learn from China’s barefoot doctors
* * * There is a great deal of potential for health care in a society by reflecting on how China’s barefoot doctors were trained, how they were organised and how they worked: though not fully...
View ArticleUS lickspittle Australia once again stands up to (Asian, ‘communist’) China
ABC Radio National 02.06.15 ’Government reportedly planning ‘freedom of navigation’ exercise in South China Sea The ‘South what Sea’? While we’re into preaching ‘freedom’ and upholding the principles...
View ArticleComment to Late Night Live on the rise of China
Hi Phillip, I listened to your interview of the professor from Defence Studies at the ANU with regard to China. I wonder if he referred to the many pigs at the trough (the most responsible, unpunished)...
View ArticleYet again, the contemptuous use the shame-based and servile
David Wroe ‘US admiral issues blunt warning over Chinese maritime expansion’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 06.10.15 The commander of the United States’ massive Pacific Fleet has warned that if bullying...
View ArticleEngels on China
From Comments at The Virtual Politician: Worth considering: ‘The war in China has given the death-blow to the old China. Isolation has become impossible; the introduction of railways, steam-engines,...
View ArticleThe country impatient for its future and the fearful lucky country
Ross Gittins, ‘China thinks big, while Australia waits for luck to strike’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 03.08.16 Sorry if I sound wide-eyed, but I was mightily impressed when I visited China as a guest...
View ArticleReply to Philomath
Hi Philomath, No, I haven’t read Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay. China is succeeding where the Soviet Union failed. This makes sense because the first successful socialist revolution,...
View ArticleThe use of Australians and their country to the US capitalist class
ABC The World Today 15.08.16, “Australia would play ‘consequential’ role in US-China war: intelligence advisor” ELEANOR HALL: But first today, a former chief intelligence advisor to Barack Obama has...
View Article“Rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows: this has nothing to do with racism”
Peter Hartcher, ‘The Chinese interests power struggle is about sovereignty,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 06.09.16 In the Hong Kong election on Sunday, the main clash was between people who prize local...
View ArticleWhat it means to be Australian
Peter Martin, ’China’s gifts, research, “special bonds” and Sam Dastyari’s ghost from his past,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 08.09.16 Sam Dastyari had been in the Senate mere months when a ghost from...
View ArticleThe US capitalist class fuels ‘tension and mistrust’ by weaponising their island
The Sydney Morning Herald 15.12.16 ‘(Minister for Foreign Affairs) Julie Bishop accuses China of fuelling ‘tension and mistrust’ by weaponising artificial islands’ But hang on Julie – this is exactly...
View ArticleJohn Pilger’s film ‘The Coming War on China’
I highly recommend John Pilger’s film ‘The Coming War on China’. The experimentation by the US capitalist class on the Marshall Islanders, initiated by the former’s atomic tests between 1946 and 1958...
View ArticleThe Mueller indictment and its parroting in Australia
By Patrick Martin Source: WSWS.org The announcement Friday by the US Department of Justice that a federal grand jury has returned criminal indictments against 13 Russian citizens and three Russian...
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