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Joe Biden and Chinese culture

4 min read JOHN HOPKINS 0 comments

JOHN HOPKINS
Joe Biden's recent comment that Xi Jinping is a dictator and his linking this assessment to the fact that China's system of government is different from that of the United States is revealing. It seems a manifestation of the Eurocentric thinking that has dominated the world in the last 200 years and the unwillingness to recognize cultures outside the Western sphere. This practice not only denies the validity of other people's experiences, but also the opportunities to learn and seek solutions to the problems we face.

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Biden–Xi: an anti-cyclonic summit

7 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The main success of the summit is to place both countries before the challenge of preventing relations from continuing to worsen, setting barriers to do so. Frameworks in the form of principles, core interests, red lines, etc., have been reiterated. Biden does not want more problems in the upcoming electoral contest. Xi, for his part, needs to focus on domestic affairs. If the summit revealed anything, it is that, at this precise moment, neither party is interested in the conflict.

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Biden maintains his unconditional support for Israel just one year before the elections

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With less than a year left until the November 2024 US elections, President Joe Biden insists on maintaining his unconditional support for Israel in Israel's war against the entire Gaza Strip, and not just against Hamas, an attitude which could cost the Democratic Party a good handful of votes, especially among young people.

An important sector of Biden voters, and not only young people, view with disgust the images that television broadcasts daily with Palestinian women and children injured or killed by the bombs that the United States sends to Israel through an airlift that works with the accuracy of a Swiss watch twenty-four hours a day.

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Much to talk about, little to agree

4 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
A Biden-Xi summit taking advantage of the APEC framework can help to somewhat put the antagonism on track, but not dilute it. And less than a year before the next elections in the United States, when it is foreseeable that hawks from all possible sides will turn China into the favorite target of all imaginable diatribes. Both Democrats and Republicans agree on that. Get ready.

Undoubtedly, dialogue is always advisable. Essential to minimally stabilize their ties, something essential in view of the importance of their ties and the global significance of their differences. Another thing is that it contributes to rebuilding a certain level of mutual trust if it is not accompanied by concrete measures to mitigate conflicts.

Detail of "Despite your slaughter, we will return" (2014) by the Palestinian artist Imad Abu Shtayyah

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Planet Gaza

3 min read RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
Beyond the cruel genocidal slaughter underway, the most terrible thing about what is happening before our eyes in Gaza is that it offers a perspective for the future. The attitude of Western governments, their media and propagandists, contains a clear warning about how the privileged part of this world can solve the dead end to which the capitalist system invented and defended by them has led us in this century.

The solution is the one used for centuries by those same powers that today fear being displaced from the command bridge: decimate populations and seize resources through war.

Children in a car in the Khan Younis refugee camp in southern Gaza. Photo: Mohammed Abed

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Exterminate all the brutes

7 min read CHRIS HEDGES

CHRIS HEDGES
When the occupied refuse to submit, when they continue to resist, we abandon all pretense of our “civilizing” mission and unleash, as in Gaza, an orgy of slaughter and destruction. We get drunk on violence. This violence drives us crazy. We kill with reckless ferocity. We become the beasts we accuse the oppressed of being.

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No human being can exist

21 min read SAREE MAKDISI

SAREE MAKDISI
What we are witnessing before our eyes is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of colonial warfare. In no case that I know of has ethnic cleansing been carried out through the use of massive artillery and intense bombing with ultra-modern weapons systems, including the one-ton bombs (and even heavier bunker-busting munitions) used by the Israelis who They fly the latest American jets.

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A report from the US Congress recognizes the success of Russian media in Latin America

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Under the title “Russian influence campaigns in Latin America,” the so-called United States Institute for Peace (USIP) released a report a few days ago on the importance of Russian communications policy in Latin America, and especially its international media such as the Sputnik agency and Russia Today television. The USIP is a nonpartisan public institute, founded by Congress, as they say "with the mission of helping to prevent, mitigate and resolve violent conflicts abroad."

Among other things, the report highlights that Russia's communications policies have found fertile ground in Latin America" to "counteract the Western liberal order led by the United States."

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Who decides who is a terrorist?

10 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
After the attack by Hamas on Israel, the hackneyed concept of terrorism has returned to the present, with which it is intended, through this accusation, to disavow some and, through the fight against it, legitimize the actions of others.

It is assumed that, at least the press and journalists, should use language in a neutral way, not conditioned by the bias of certain political powers. According to the RAE, terrorism is “Domination by terror” or “Succession of acts of violence carried out to instill terror.” It is evident that under this consideration we could include many issues that the media never think of calling terrorism.

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The news has nothing to do with newsworthiness

4 min read CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
It's not that editors coordinate with each other across the media or receive instructions on what to report from oligarchs and government agencies, it's that if they were the kind who needed to do those things to know what to report, they wouldn't be working where they work.

How did the mainstream press know to ignore the scandal of a Ukrainian Nazi being applauded in the Canadian parliament? How did they know how to discredit Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn? How do they know how to support all wars while ignoring homelessness and economic injustice? It sure isn't "common sense."

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Political hatred, sign of the times in the West

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Every day there are more people calling for authoritarianism, in Israel, Spain, the United States, Argentina and other Western countries. Puzzled by the complexity that the world has been acquiring, a complexity that continues to grow, these people ask for immediate and simple solutions to complex problems, creating a dizzying whirlpool that we do not know where it will lead.

Those who think opposite hate each other, without reconciliation seeming possible. It is a vitiated atmosphere that permeates the entire West, not just in Israel. And with growing intolerance it is not sending a good signal or creating a better future, quite the opposite.

The Chinese city of Xiamen, seen from Gulangyu Island.

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Plan A for Taiwan is written with F for Fujian

5 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Without ceasing to multiply military exercises clearly aimed at Taiwan (and also with a message for the US and its policies, which Beijing describes as encouraging independence), China has announced its intention to turn the province of Fujian into a demonstration zone for development. integrated across the Taiwan Strait.

The objective is, at the same time, to illustrate and legitimize the discourse on their desire to achieve peaceful reunification, while weakening the secessionist movement that, for the moment, has the upper hand in Taiwan.