3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (490+ words) Chinese President Xi Jinping held phone talks with new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on September 8. More pointedly, considering the recent issues faced by British Steel and Chinese wind turbine maker Ming Yang, Xi expressed the hope that the British…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (772+ words) To give a frame of comparison: China’s solar capacity alone is now around ten times Britain’s entire generating capacity, from all sources. Under the current five-year plan, another 2,800 gigawatts of renewable capacity is to be integrated by 2030 – roughly double the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (793+ words) King Abdullah II of Jordan paid a state visit to China from August 18 to 24 at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. Xi met with the Jordanian monarch on the afternoon of August 24. During the meeting, the Chinese president said that…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (705+ words) In this discussion with Radhika Desai, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez confronts the charge, common even on parts of the left, that Beijing does far too little for Palestine, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. He also addresses what China…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (371+ words) Two stories eight days apart, both from London newspapers, both pushing a McCarthyite agenda – one aimed at Britain, one at the United States. The Telegraph announced that “China is funding pro-Palestine marches in UK”. The Times reported that members of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (344+ words) This article first appeared in Beijing Review. Brazil, the largest economy in Latin America, now stands as one of the very few remaining obstacles to the Trump administration completing its sphere of influence, with the Lula da Silva government advancing…...