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The US is on a warpath against China
FIONA EDWARDS assesses evidence that the United States has given up on peaceful economic competition – and is engaged in a drive to world war
HOT AIR: The US has created an international incident out of a Chineses weather balloon blown off course, which it shot down this week
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
Whilst mainstream Western media has been focused on hyping up the alleged ‘threat’ posed by a solitary Chinese balloon which was blown off course into US airspace last week, officials in Washington have been concentrating on working with key US allies in the Pacific region to escalate the military encirclement of China in preparation for a potential hot war in Asia – the consequences of which would be truly devastating for humanity.
The furore over the balloon has sparked a diplomatic crisis leading to the cancellation of high level meetings scheduled to take place in Beijing between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang — meetings which could have been an opportunity for the US and China to explore ways of co-operating to tackle the seismic challenges facing humanity.
Instead of embarking on a policy of international co-operation to solve shared problems such as the deepening climate crisis and the prospect of a global economic downturn in 2023, the entire US political establishment is uniting around an extremely aggressive policy aimed at stopping the rise of China.
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