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Pamphlets V7 card illustrating Mapuche students occupying TVN and Junaeb offices in Temuco over cultural funding.

Mapuche Students Occupy TVN and Junaeb Offices in Chile Over Cultural Funding

Students occupied two buildings in Temuco after accusing Chile’s government of withholding CLP 30 million for Mapuche cultural activities.

Hugo Castro

4 days ago

London financial district skyline. Source: Wikimedia Commons, London financial district.jpg. License/creator details: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London%20financial%20district.jpg

Dollar Power: How Finance Extends U.S. Influence Beyond Its Borders

The dollar remains the dominant reserve currency and gives the United States leverage through finance, sanctions and access to global markets. Diversification is growing, but the system is still deeply dollar-centered.

USA

Gianna Mao

May 25, 2025

Shanghai skyline at night. Wikimedia Commons.

China’s Development Model Used Markets Without Giving Up State Direction

China’s reform era combined market competition, foreign investment and private enterprise with state banking, industrial policy, infrastructure and long-term planning.

China

Gianna Mao

May 25, 2025

ARCHIVE — U.S. President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai shake hands in Beijing on February 21, 1972. Byron Schumaker / White House Photo Office, National Archives and Records Administration (U.S. public domain).

Zhou Enlai and the Diplomacy of Revolutionary State Power

From Geneva to Bandung, Zhou Enlai helped turn revolutionary China into a diplomatic actor by linking sovereignty, anti-colonialism and strategic flexibility.

China

Gianna Mao

May 18, 2025

Deng Xiaoping portrait. Wikimedia Commons.

Deng Xiaoping Was a Communist—and Reform Was His Gamble

Deng did not abandon communism when he opened China to markets. His wager was that markets could accelerate development without taking political command away from the Communist Party.

China

Gianna Mao

May 17, 2025

Yuri Gagarin portrait. Source: Wikimedia Commons, Yuri Gagarin (1961).jpg. License/creator details: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yuri%20Gagarin%20(1961).jpg

Yuri Gagarin and the Public System That Put the First Human in Orbit

Gagarin’s 108-minute Vostok 1 flight made him the first human in space. The achievement was personal, scientific and institutional: thousands of workers made the mission possible.

History

Gianna Mao

May 13, 2025

Pamphlets V7 hero card using a real photograph of Mombasa SGR railway station in Kenya by Erasmus Kamugisha, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

China in Africa: Infrastructure, Bargaining Power and the Fight Over Development

The real question is not whether every Chinese project is benevolent or colonial. It is whether infrastructure, debt and mineral deals increase African productive sovereignty or reproduce dependency.

China

Gianna Mao

May 10, 2025

Pamphlets V7 hero card using a real 2026 portrait photograph of Burkina Faso leader Ibrahim Traoré by Bamjo226, released under CC0.

Burkina Faso’s Sovereignty Project Runs Through Gold, State Power and Security

Under Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso is expanding state control over gold and domestic refining. The central test is whether resource sovereignty becomes durable public capacity.

Africa

Gianna Mao

May 9, 2025

The Taiwan Strait viewed from space. Wikimedia Commons.

Taiwan, China and the Status Quo: Why the Dispute Is Harder Than the Slogans

Beijing claims Taiwan as part of China; Taiwan governs itself; Washington arms the island while avoiding formal recognition of independence. The status quo survives because every alternative carries major risks.

China

Gianna Mao

May 6, 2025

Frantz Fanon at a press conference in Tunis in 1959.

Mao and Fanon: Revolution, Colonial Violence and the Problem of Power

Mao and Fanon are often reduced to slogans about violence. Their deeper argument was about power: who controls land, institutions, labor and the state—and what liberation builds after the old order breaks.

Theory & Analysis

Gianna Mao

May 4, 2025

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