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2021-11-24: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-24). New Zealand media pushes alarmist propaganda over China's relations with Kiribati. wsws.org Not a shred of evidence was provided that China aims to build a military base in the small Pacific island state. Rather it was simply assumed that Beijing's aims in New Zealand's "own backyard" were nefarious.

Eshalaxmi Barlingay (2021-11-23). How sports can achieve diplomacy. america.cgtn.com This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ping Pong Diplomacy — when table tennis broke through the U.S.-China Cold War divide, at a time when high-level diplomacy was just an aspiration. CGTN's Toni Waterman takes a look at how sports can be a great icebreaker in culture and politics.

2021-11-24 17:44 | 13:44 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 

2021-11-19: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-18). Anti-China propaganda gone mad: The bizarre case of the "Corgi killers" wsws.org A minor incident in China involving the death of a pet, while no doubt distressing to its owner, has been inflated for political purposes out of all proportion in the American and international media.

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2021-11-18). Australian war propaganda keeps getting crazier. mronline.org 60 Minutes Australia has churned out yet another fearmongering war propaganda piece on China, this one so ham-fisted in its call to beef up military spending that it goes so far as to run a brazen advertisement for an actual Australian weapons manufacturer disguised as news reporting.

Tom Engelhardt (2021-11-18). Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Are Imperial World Orders Heading for Extinction? warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I have to admit that, in 2018, when I first read in the Guardian that, later in this century, the deadliest place for climate-change-induced heat waves could prove to be the North China plain, I was shocked. After …

2021-11-19 20:35 | 16:35 EST | jz | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 

2021-11-17: News Headlines

Staff (2021-11-16). Historian Alfred McCoy Predicts the U.S. Empire is Collapsing as China's Power Grows. democracynow.org President Joe Biden's virtual summit Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping follows the two countries' announcement just days earlier they will work together to confront the climate emergency after Xi did not attend the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow. Tension has been mounting between the two superpowers, especially over Taiwan and Hong Kong, with some speculating that a new Cold War is developing. "The United States, in the immediate future, is faced with the possibility of fighting a war over Taiwan … that it would probably lose," says Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madiso…

2021-11-17 17:09 | 13:09 EST | jz | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0