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Washington’s China Trade Agenda Runs Into G20 Resistance
G20 trade ministers resisted parts of Washington’s push on industrial overcapacity, forced-labor tariffs and WTO rules as the U.S. expands unilateral trade pressure aimed heavily at China.

Gianna Mao
1 hour ago


China’s Rise Through a World-Systems Lens: Moving Up the Hierarchy of Production
World-systems theory helps explain China’s transformation from a lower-cost manufacturing base into a state capable of competing over technology, infrastructure and high-value production.

Gianna Mao
Apr 16, 2025


Bernie Sanders and the Boundary Between Progressive Reform and Anti-Imperialism
Sanders has become one of the Senate’s strongest critics of U.S. arms transfers to Israel, while still operating inside—and largely reforming rather than rejecting—the broader U.S. security system.

Carlitos Marquez
Apr 16, 2025


China’s Clean-Energy Buildout Is Rewriting the Scale of Climate Policy
By mid-2026, renewable power made up more than 60% of China’s installed capacity and supplied over 40% of generation. The transition’s central contradiction is now clean-energy growth versus continued coal dependence.

Gianna Mao
Apr 16, 2025


The Eastern Front Broke Nazi Germany’s Land War
The Allied victory was collective, but the Eastern Front was the largest and deadliest theater of World War II. Soviet forces stopped the invasion, destroyed German armies and captured Berlin.

Gianna Mao
Apr 15, 2025


Why Tariffs Haven’t Reversed China’s Industrial Rise
Tariffs can redirect trade, but they cannot manufacture industrial capacity. The U.S.–China conflict keeps returning to negotiation because both sides now hold material leverage over critical supply chains.

Gianna Mao
Apr 15, 2025


Ecuador 2025: The Vote Was Valid. The Fight Over State Power Is Separate.
International observers found no evidence that Daniel Noboa’s reelection was stolen. Ecuador’s democratic debate instead turns on emergency powers, security policy and the concentration of state authority.

Carlitos Marquez
Apr 14, 2025


10 Men Who Changed the World: A Left-Wing Historical Selection
A non-ranked selection of ten men whose ideas, movements and institutions reshaped politics, religion and social life across continents—from Marx and Mao to Muhammad and Confucius.

Gianna Mao
Apr 14, 2025


Who Owns the News? Class Power Inside the Media System
A Marxist media analysis starts with ownership, advertising, distribution and labor. The question is not whether every journalist takes orders—it is who controls the institutions that make journalism possible.

Gianna Mao
Apr 14, 2025


Why China Still Calls Itself Socialist: Party Power, Markets and the Commanding Heights
China combines markets and private capital with Communist Party rule, public ownership and state direction of strategic sectors. The Marxist debate is about which class forces ultimately command the system.

Gianna Mao
Apr 13, 2025
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