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Biden is Accelerating the Pace of the New Cold War with China

May 20, 2021 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson While its stated goals are to be “tough” with China and to “shape the contours of China’s rise,” the Biden administration’s provocative military operations and rhetoric are increasing the danger that an unintended incident, accident, or miscalculation could trigger an armed conflict […]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan at China talks, March 18, 2021

‘Extreme competition but not confrontation’: Biden’s China policy takes shape

March 24, 2021 Duncan McFarland

by Duncan McFarland Originally published in People’s World At the start of the Biden administration, the U.S. foreign policy of “American exceptionalism” so far appears to remain intact—it is imperialist, hegemonic, and anti-China. However, the new administration also recognizes certain realities that the previous White […]

Our Real Security: Preventing a New Cold War with China

December 14, 2020 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Originally published in Common Dreams Pressing for peaceful resolution of U.S.-China tensions in ways that provide mutual benefit for both sides and other Asia-Pacific nations needs to become a peace movement priority. Once again a self-defeating Washington consensus threaten the real security […]

Peace on the Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century

The US Needs to Stop Preventing Korean Reconciliation

November 22, 2020 Cole Harrison

A talk presented at “Peace in the Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century”, a program sponsored by the National Unification Advisory Council’s Boston chapter, on November 21, 2020. View video of this talk at https://youtu.be/Ff3hciLUtTo I’m Cole Harrison, executive director of Massachusetts Peace Action. We’re […]

US Navy guided missile cruiser and destroyers in the South China Sea

South China Sea Provocations & Meeting China Halfway

July 26, 2020 Joseph Gerson

NEW YORK, Jul 22 2020 (IPS) – In the words of (ret.) Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Secretary of Defense Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff, the Trump Administration has been dangerously “poking China in the eye.” After sending aircraft carriers and destroyers to the precincts of the Taiwan […]

President Donald J. Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping . (Photo: Patrick Semansky,Liu Bin, AP)

China, COVID-19, and the 2020 Presidential Election

May 21, 2020 Cole Harrison

by Duncan McFarland First published in the “CCDS Mobilizer” In 1950 the anti-communist right led by Senator Joseph McCarthy attacked progressives in the government over “Who lost China?” In 2020, will a major issue in the presidential election campaign be “Who’s soft on China?” Regardless, […]

Push Back Against Trump’s New Arms Race

May 17, 2020 Cole Harrison