The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran’s South Pars gas field could be both a harbinger and explanation of much wider geopolitical developments. First of all, the $5 billion project – signed last year after years of foot dragging by western energy... » read this article

18 March 2010 The past week has seen a marked intensification of the steady drumbeat of threats and provocations against China that has characterized the policy of the Obama administration since last September. That month, the White House signed an order imposing punitive tariffs on Chinese tire imports. This was... » read this article

The prime minister of contract murder, Binyamin Netanyahu, was not long permitted to rejoice over the agreement to sanction Iran which he had wrested from the Russian leadership. A few days later, China made it clear that it would in no case help to carry out such sanctions. Consequently, Netanyahu... » read this article

The Obama Administration has heightened tensions with China through a series of measures which can only be characterized as major provocations designed to undermine relations between the two countries.  These provocations include political support for separatist movements, such as the US-funded theocratic-monk led Tibetan secessionists and the Washington-based Uyghur secessionists,... » read this article

"Yang Chien, the founding emperor of the Sui dynasty, came to power in 581 and though the dynasty itself lasted less than forty years, it's accomplishments, as Arthur Wright has written were 'prodigious and its effects on the later history of China were far reaching.' It was also a time... » read this article

By one estimate, China has been at the top of the global economy for 18 out of the last 20 centuries. That's an impressive track record, whatever you might think of imperialism, communism, and all the other systems that have prevailed in that vast country over the centuries. Even President... » read this article

Editor's Note: Alex Lantier writes: "Google posted a statement, "A New Approach to China," on its blog. It charged that a series of cyber security attacks originating from a computer in Taiwan were being controlled from China. These attacks targeted dozens of US defense and communications firms—including Northrop Grumman, Adobe... » read this article

Though not being reported in the mainstream American press, there is a very intense struggle going on between the U.S. and China to determine which nation will emerge as the dominant presence in Central Asia. These two economic giants, the U.S. declining and China rapidly growing, know full well that... » read this article

12 January 2010 A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China came into effect on New Year’s Day, creating the world’s third largest free trade bloc behind the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA). While limited in... » read this article

Engdahl: US China strategy driving Afghan war, but no real long range thinking in place F William Engdahl is an economist and author and the writer of the best selling book “A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order.” Mr Engdhahl has written on issues of... » read this article

As the past decade slips away, it is easy to remember it economically as one which began with the dotcom boom and ended with the "Great Implosion" that left Britain, the US and other industrialised nations struggling with the most painful recession in the postwar period. But a deeper shift... » read this article

Editor's Note: We received the following letter from Nesreen Melek, a frequent guest writer and poet for Axis of Logic. Nesreen wrote it during her current visit in China. In her letter, she compares her experiences in Beijing with that of her last visit to Baghdad, her "Wattan"*. - LMB Dear Les, I went... » read this article

In The Jaws of the Dragon. America’s Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Dominance. Eamonn Fingleton. Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin’s Press), New York, 2008. A book about the future published in 2008, with information preceding the publishing date, could well be considered out of date - or at... » read this article

Reflections by Comrade Fidel  Last October 1st commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Peoples’ Republic of China.  On that historic day in 1949, Mao Zedong presided over the first parade of the Peoples’ Army and the people of China in Tiananmen Square as leader of the Communist Party of China. ... » read this article

1 October 2009 Today marks 60 years since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led by Mao Zedong seized power and proclaimed the Peoples Republic of China. The revolutionary upheaval in China was part of a worldwide upsurge of the working class and oppressed masses that followed the end of World... » read this article

HENRY Kissinger’s initiative of visiting Beijing, thanks to Pakistan’s role in opening doors, ended China’s alienation and marked the beginning of a Washington-Beijing relationship that blossomed into an extremely close bilateral, mutually beneficial economic partnership. The interdependence of the two countries in this age of hyper globalisation is in complete... » read this article

22 August 2009 An angry protest by thousands of Chinese steelworkers last week forced the authorities to suspend the privatisation of the state-owned Linzhou Steel Corporation in Henan province. Some 3,000 workers held a government official hostage in the factory for four days. The incident took place just three weeks... » read this article

23 July 2009 Desperate for any sign of economic revival, financial commentators cheered China’s second quarter GDP growth figure of 7.9 percent, up from 6.1 percent growth in the first quarter. In reality, the export-driven Chinese economy will not return to the previous levels of expansion as its major markets... » read this article

When the local government began recruiting young Muslim Uighurs in this far western region for jobs at the Xuri Toy Factory in the country's booming coastal region, the response was mixed. Some, lured by the eye-popping salaries and benefits, eagerly signed up. But others, like Safyden's 21-year-old sister, were wary.... » read this article

Uyghurs are in the news: a handful were released from Guantanamo in June, and others rioted in western China in July. Huge numbers of Han Chainese have moved into the region, where the indigenous Uighurs have been fighting domination by China since the 1800's/ China let foreign reporters into the... » read this article