In three days, the Tokyo stock market lost almost $400 billion in value. (ABC, Jan. 20) The crash comes at a moment of converging multiple crises for the Japanese state. On Jan. 19, some 800 protesters, mostly connected to Shinto… Read more“Tokyo Panic” to fuel nationalist backlash?
Yet another report of peasant protesters killed by the security forces in (nominally communist) China. Is there any national coordination to the fast-growing peasant movement? Is anyone working in the West to loan them solidarity? From the Jan. 17 New… Read moreMore peasant unrest in China
Glad some hearty souls are keeping the anti-globalization flame alive, even in the post-9-11 world, and even under the heavy hand of the Chinese state. From AP Dec. 17: Police removed hundreds of protesters who staged a sit-in that shut… Read moreAnti-WTO protests rock Hong Kong
The world is paying little note, but China may have a full-scale peasant revolt on its hands soon. The hideous irony is that the American idiot left, rather than loaning solidarity to the heroic Chinese peasants, will cheer on their… Read moreChina: army fires on peasant protesters
The front-page synopsis below the headline of the New York Times‘s coverage of Bush’s Nov. 20 meeting with President Hu Jintao in Beijing said it all: Hu Jintao Cedes Nothing on Political Freedoms —Will Act on Trade Economic “liberalization” without… Read moreBush betrays Tiananmen martyrs —but not Microsoft
The Epoch Times, an international publication run by Chinese exiles harshly opposed to the People’s Republic government, ran a synopsis Oct. 15 of its ongoing coverage of the rural conflict in Taishi, a village in Guangdong now occupied by police… Read moreChinese peasants defend lands, village democracy
The New York Times today notes the growing cult of Zheng He in China, the 15th-century mariner who led gigantic fleets across the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Ming Dynasty’s brief but impressive expansion of naval prowess. Statues are… Read moreSinophobes fear cult of Zheng He
Another factory forced to halt operation by heroic Chinese peasants protecting their lands from the industrial onslaught. We question how “violent” it is to tear down a security fence. In contrast, the security forces’ response to the rising tide of… Read moreMore militant anti-pollution protests in China
And, really, we could have done without this one. From the New York Times, July 15 via TruthOut: Chinese General Threatens Use of A-Bombs if US Intrudes Beijing – China should use nuclear weapons against the United States if the… Read moreChina rattles nuclear sabre
A June 2 AP article reports that North Korea called Vice President Dick Cheney a “bloodthirsty beast” and lambasted him for calling the Democratic People’s Rebublic (DPRK) leader Kim Jong Il “irresponsible.” Said an unnamed North Korean Foreign Ministry source,… Read moreDPRK: Cheney a “bloodthirsty beast”
From the UPI: ZHEJIANG, China, April 12: Rioting by farmers in eastern China has forced the closure of 13 new chemical factories the farmers claim are poisoning their families and crops. The protests began in the rural village of Huaxi… Read moreChinese farmers revolt against industrial expansion
A dispute over offshore oil and gas rights in waters claimed by both countries as part of their "exclusive economic zone" seems to be behind recent tensions between China and Japan—ostensibly sparked by official Japanese revisionism over its role in… Read moreOffshore oil dispute behind Sino-Japanese tensions
