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European Parliament votes to freeze EU-China investment deal Issued on: 20/05/2021 - 18:00 One of the buildings of the European Parliament. On 20 May, members voted on a resolution regarding Chinese sanctions against MEPs. AFP - SEBASTIEN BOZON 4 min With an overwhelming majority, the European Parliament passed a motion recommending to formally freeze the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement for Investment (CAI).Tension has escalate...

May 2021 What kind of pathos appeals to white women? This has been a central question of political election punditry (and Hillary Clinton’s personal night terrors) for a decade, as well as the central question of American suburban life for the past 100 years. What do these white women want? What makes them mad? What relieves their madness—ahem, their anger? And why is the The single most useful answer to all these questions is relatively simple, and if you are a white woman, perhaps more o...

EU hesitates over investment deal with increasingly authoritarian China Issued on: Audio 05:31 Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders attend the closing session of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 10, 2021. REUTERS - CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS 26 min China has recently drawn damaging international criticism because of plans by the N...

Revolver  has teamed up with The Obsessed for an exclusive Transparent Blue with Black Smoke vinyl variant of their classic album The Church Within In the early Eighties, Washington, D.C.s music scene was pretty clearly split between longhairs clinging to the supercharged Seventies sounds of heshers like Zeppelin and Sabbath and a new crew of short-cropped kids diving headfirst into the hardcore punk scene of Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag and more. It was during this time that Scott "W...

Peter Mandelson assured the Chinese PM that critics of Beijings human-rights record would be proved wrong during a lobbying meeting on behalf of rich clients. The Labour peer, who has been advising party leader Sir Keir Starmer on how to boost his poll ratings, told the meeting of business leaders and Chinese officials that Premier Li Keqiang would not be hearing complaints from the European side today – despite mounting international criticism of Chinas authoritarian rule and alleged cover-...

We need a clear-eyed understanding of the implications of current Chinese policies concerning Australia. The policy adopted by the Socialist Alliance (SA) at its 15th national conference fails to provide this. While it appropriately identifies Australian and other capitalist “allies’” response to China as hypocritical and phoney, it fails to accurately identify China as a growing danger to the world. The policy is dangerously naïve in portraying China as a victim of Western imperialism. ...

Democrats should fight foreign conspiracies with the same seriousness they do QAnon Print this article Democrats have thrown down the gauntlet on Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman and QAnon conspiracy theorist from Georgia. Greene has dabbled in 9/11 conspiracy theories, questioned whether school shootings were staged, and suggested that a "Jewish" space laser started the California wildfires. She richly deserves the opprobrium she receives. My colleague Jonah Goldberg is righ...

A big portion of the mainstream media is happy being a megaphone for those in power, says the editor-in-chief of Cobrapost Aniruddha Bahal, the co-founder of Tehelka magazine and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost.com, is best known for his investigative journalism, especially the kind that carries a ‘sting’. He is, however, a man of many facets and his career has straddled different realms, spanning journalism, fiction (his novel Bunker 13 won the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction award)...

The next big threat facing the Trudeau Liberals: China Stephen Maher: Chinas increasing belligerence will require a tougher tone from Ottawa. The fate of the Liberal government may depend on it. December 20, 2020 Trudeau responds to a question about China during a news conference outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on June 25, 2020 (CP/Adrian Wyld) If you were to make a list of all the people who stand between Justin Trudeau and the majority government he dreams of, you’d have to put Xi Jinpin...

Highlights Chinas ties have now deteriorated with this country as the Chinese Communist Party continues its expansionist desires. The relationship between the two countries took a turn for the worst when a certain incident took place. After India, Chinas relationship has deteriorated with another country as Xi Jinpings Chinese Communist Party continues its expansionist desires. Chinas relationship with Australia is currently at an all-time low. The relationship between the two countries took a ...