Tag: Asia

How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate Isabella M. Weber Routledge, 2021 China’s Great Road: Lessons for Marxist Theory and Socialist Practices John Ross Praxis Press, 2021 China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse Richard Smith Pluto Press, 2021 The Chinese Communist party’s central committee recently held its sixth plenum,

China’s South-South model of international development suggests a new, anti-imperialist model of global governance may be taking shape. Photo from Pixabay. China presents its Belt and Road Initiative as a way to address global deficits of development, peace and governance and has called for an international community with a shared

With almost 35 million inhabitants, Kerala is the most stable and progressive state in India, with the highest literacy rate, a very high life expectancy and a high number of medical centres. Photo by Oscar Espinosa/Amalgama Project. Since March 24, the second most populous country in the world, with 1.3

An Indian army soldier patrols on a bridge during restrictions in Jammu on 5 August 2019 (Reuters) Earlier today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP government has rushed through a presidential decree to revoke the part of the constitution that gives Indian-administered Kashmir special status, fueling growing Kashmiri fears

Photo by Las Vegas Review-Journal Where to start? For nearly 40 weeks hundreds of thousands of French people have been on the streets in anti-government demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s rule. Some have lost eyes and hands in the police response. The public has begun to view the smell of

Photo by Las Vegas Review-Journal Where to start? For nearly 40 weeks hundreds of thousands of French people have been on the streets in anti-government demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s rule. Some have lost eyes and hands in the police response. The public has begun to view the smell of

Photo by Dan Lin China’s economic reforms started exactly forty years ago. Labour scholars today are debating the extent to which labour relations and the labour movement in China have changed, and where they may be heading. Positions are polarized between pessimists who emphasise the structural power of the market

Senior Republicans in both the House and Senate have called on the President to “reject any claims for the continued postponement” of declassification. “Transparency in government is critical not only to ensuring accountability; it’s also essential to understanding our nation’s history,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who chairs the Senate

Photo by Stephan More than four decades ago I went to lunch with a diplomatic historian who, like me, was going through Korea-related documents at the National Archives in Washington. He happened to remark that he sometimes wondered whether the Korean Demilitarised Zone might be ground zero for the end

Photo by Workers Solidarity For the sixth straight weekend, hundreds of thousands of Koreans came out in Seoul (and with other Korean cities estimates approaching 2 million people on the streets) to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye. This Saturday December 3, the protests marched on the Presidential Blue

Photo by Keith Bacongco For many in the Global North, certain countries only appear on our radar screens as discount winter vacation hotspots. Other times, when natural disaster strikes, these countries serve as empathy-building backdrops to raise millions for charities that, after skimming some off the top, may distribute some

18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, November 2012 • Photo by 东方 China’s wealthiest classes have secured their recent fortunes through various means, both legal and illegal: These include (1) the privatization of public enterprises; (2) the savage exploitation of cheap labor after destroying workers rights, protections