The Western left has largely fallen in line behind interventionist platitudes of “standing with the Chinese people, not the Chinese government.” But their cover of “principled critique” elides the fact that criticism does not exist in a vacuum. In this case, it is greasing the wheels for Western imperialist intervention under the auspices of a “new” Cold War. 

Izak Novak’s crucial analysis breaks down the long-term strategy of U.S. imperial designs for China, the erosion of “the bargain” between Chinese socialism and U.S. capital, and the geopolitics of a new containment doctrine with China’s Belt & Road Initiative as its target.

Laura Ruggeri explores the work of U.S. intelligence agencies to seed a Hong Kong color revolution by exploiting a fundamental contradiction: the political return of Hong Kong to China did not correspond with the ideological and cultural decolonization necessary to curb a hegemonic neocolonial mindset.

Armed with state funding and weapons industry sponsors, a handful of influential think tanks are setting the terms of the New Cold War on China, propelling the U.S.-led alliance towards a disastrous conflict at the expense of the rest of us.

Changes to Inner Mongolia’s bilingual education policy have hit Western China-watching circles, prompting dramatic and misrepresentative claims of cultural erasure.

We investigate government documents from the autonomous region to set the record straight.

Puerto Rico provides a tragic case study of US imperial parasitism that fundamentally challenges the Hong Kong pro-democracy camp’s presumption that “Western imperialism’s colonial governments are not only ‘more free’ but also ‘more democratic.’”

A note of reflection on the June 4th Tiananmen protests written by three members of Qiao Collective whose families were closely involved in the June 4th Tiananmen protests.