Tag: China
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Happy B’Day Marx! Imperialism and the Dialectic of Money
Yes, happy birthday Karl Marx, but his work on political economy was incomplete as he only ever presented exactly half the conceptual picture he intended to publish before he died. In Capital 1 Marx begins with the dialectic of the commodity, saying that it has both use-value and exchange-value, the former representing the utility of the commodity, the later its price in the market.
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‘Uyghur Genocide’
The ‘Uyghur genocide’ narrative being promoted by Anglo-American governments serves only one purpose, to justify military escalation against China, and if the West really cared about genocide, then ‘we’ would stop committing one against the people of Yemen.
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Taiwan Manipulating Its Currency? The Real Intentions Behind the Fake Accusation
The US is threatening to label Taiwan a currency manipulator on the grounds that they are intentionally devaluing their currency, which is worsening the US trade deficit from the US perspective. The accusation doesn’t make sense anyway, given that the Taiwan dollar reached a “23-year high against the U.S. dollar” back in Jan.
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Caught in the Middle of the US-China Thucydides Trap: What are Australia’s options?
The rise of China has prompted many US geostrategic thinkers over the past decade to talk about the degree to which another ‘world war’ is inevitable, including most recently Henry Kissinger, who warned that if the leaders of the US and China did not discuss the limits of their confrontation then world war would ensue.
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Coronavirus: The West vs. China
If the objective is to save lives, the optimal/utilitarian solution would be to maximise the self-isolation of as many people as possible for an indefinite period, so that asymptomatic carriers of the virus won’t transmit it among their community…
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Yes, Chinese Capital Exports can be Anti-Imperialist
Yes actually. The reason people believe otherwise is because Lenin correctly observed that Britain was the world’s leading exporter of capital. However this was possible ONLY because Britain was draining India, NOT by “exporting capital” to India, but by using taxes raised from Indians to finance their imports from India…
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Hong Kong Protests & Capital Flight
Western propaganda comes in two types, 1) we attack them for our benefit (realism), and 2) we save them for their benefit (liberalism), and when it comes to Hong Kong, both the Left and Right of the Anglo world tend towards the latter, actually thinking the political unrest is vaguely because China wants to impose laws on Hong Kong to extradite “human rights” and “democracy” campaigners.