Spreading war, not peace
11 August 2025
The Labour government has spread its talk of war to the Pacific, against China in particular. This is a dangerous development.
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US arms spending will start wars
22 April 2024
The USA has worsened the prospects of peace in three regions of the world. It has voted funds for increased military support to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Described as enabling defence and security, this action will escalate already dangerous situations.
US and NATO eye China
9 February 2023
The risk of war is increasing in China as well as Europe. The US and NATO are talking up China as a threat, and upping their military spending and actvity.
Western power play in the Pacific
This extraordinary book gives a much-needed perspective on the Asia-Pacific region, where the USA and its Western allies are aligned against China…
Hong Kong: Stop imitating the EU!
4 July 2020
The British government is acting like the EU in its attempt to exert control over Hong Kong – an irony that seems to escape it.
Message to Johnson: Hong Kong is no longer a colony
Boris Johnson has pledged to give three million Hong Kong residents British citizenship – even though Britain quit the former colony more than two decades ago.
The Long March (1934–35) - shorter version
The most extraordinary march in human history changed the balance of forces not only in China but also in the world…
The Long March (1934-35)
24 August 2017
On 16 October 1934, about 100,000 men and women in China’s Red Army broke out of their surrounded soviet base. Their extraordinary year-long march to the other end of China changed not only the balance of forces in China but also the world.
Britain's imperial wars for opium
Extracted from poppies, opium is a highly addictive drug, though it can serve as a medicine. By the end of the 17th century, non-medicinal drug use of opium had appeared in China, particularly around the port of Canton (now know as Guangzhou), where most foreign merchants traded.
The politics of Hong Kong protest
19 October 2014
The so-called “pro-democracy” demonstrators seeking to occupy central areas of Hong Kong are for the return of Hong Kong as an independent capitalist statelet, severed from mainland China.