Foxconn, a factory that makes iPhones and Xboxes among other gadgets, is seeing strikes by workers over low wages, long hours, and terrible conditions.
Jason Q. Ng, Waging Nonviolence. January 11, 2012.
As enticing as it is to group them together, the events in Wukan are no extension of OWS or the Arab Spring -- but that doesn't make them any less inspiring.
Residents of Wukan are in open revolt against officialdom and have driven out local Communist Party leaders who they say have been stealing their land for years.
China's conditions for a treaty included a renewal of carbon-cutting pledges by rich nations, along with hundreds of billions of dollars in climate financing for poorer countries.
Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch.com. September 25, 2011.
The new American century was swiftly throttled in three stages: 9/11 (blowback); invasion of Iraq (preemptive war); and 2008 Wall Street meltdown (casino capitalism).
Soon Chinese law may allow dissidents to be "disappeared" into secret detention facilities in cases involving "terrorism" or "national security." Sound familiar?
Angered by the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan let Chinese engineers examine the wreckage of a top secret helicopter, the New York Times reports
The new recession that the Republicans are engineering will put into doubt all three pillars of McWorld: American consumption, European stability, and Chinese growth.
Pakistan is strategically at the center of too many plans for it to rely on the US -- with pipeline plans, Iran and China as neighbors and a planet hungry for natural gas.
Tina Gerhardt, Lucia Green-Weiskel, AlterNet. January 15, 2011.
In China, a race toward self-reliance and clean energy technology is certainly on, but the U.S. still needs to make some key changes if it wants to compete.
