(2022-07-20). Reject CPTPP, Stay out of New Cold War. popularresistance.org Joining or ratifying dubious trade deals is supposed to offer miraculous solutions to recent lackluster economic progress. Such naàØve advocacy is misleading at best, and downright irresponsible, even reckless, at worst. | 'US President Barack Obama's 'pivot to Asia' after his 2012 re-election sought to check China's sustained economic growth and technological progress. Its economic centerpiece was the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). | But the US International Trade Commission (ITC) doubted the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and other exaggerated claims of significa…
(2022-07-20). Real Debt Trap: Sri Lanka Owes Vast Majority to West, Not to China. towardfreedom.org Sri Lanka owes 81 percent of its external debt to U.S. and European financial institutions and to Western allies, Japan and India. China owns just 10 percent. But Washington blames imaginary "Chinese debt traps" for the nation's crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program, reports Benjamin Norton.
(2022-07-20). Xi's visit inspires museum workers. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping's visit to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum on July 13 has inspired workers at the museum to carry out innovations to ensure that the institution can better tell stories about the region.
(2022-07-20). Fresh archaeological excavation starts at Xinjiang Buddhist temple site. ecns.cn Chinese archaeologists began a new round of excavation work in July on Mo'er Temple ruins, a Buddhist site, in Kashgar Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.