by Michael Klare | Mar 14, 2023 | War & Peace
Is China really on the verge of invading the island of Taiwan, as so many top American officials seem to believe? If the answer is “yes” and the U.S. intervenes on Taiwan’s side — as President Biden has sworn it would — we could find ourselves in a major-power...
by Michael Klare | Jan 25, 2023 | Environment, Global Just Transition
Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of those in power, intelligence failures are anything but unusual in this country’s security affairs. In 2003, for instance,...
by Michael Klare | Nov 29, 2022 | Energy, Environment, Global Just Transition
As President Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrived on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, for their November 14th “summit,” relations between their two countries were on a hair-raising downward spiral, with tensions over Taiwan nearing the boiling...
by John Feffer | Nov 2, 2022 | Energy, Environment, Global Just Transition
When it comes to a global clean energy transition, China is both part of the problem and part of the solution. On the problem side, China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world by a rather wide margin. In 2020, China was responsible for a little over 30...
by Walden Bello | Oct 27, 2022 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace
Recent days have been very memorable when it comes to geopolitics. The Biden administration issued a National Security Strategy Memorandum that some say was a declaration of enmity against China just short of war. And at the Chinese Communist Party Congress in...
