The Importance of Being Cool

Air conditioning units on an apartment building in 香港 (Hong Kong), China. Photo: Dale de la Rey/AFP/Getty Images.

20,000 Leagues Under the Seas

Official says drone deployed by American oceanographic vessel in South China Sea was taken by Chinese navy on Thursday The Chinese navy has seized an underwater drone in plain sight of the American sailors who had deployed it in international waters, in a seemingly brazen message to the incoming Trump administration. [Read more].

• Julian Borger, Chinese warship seizes U.S. underwater drone in international waters, The Guardian, December 16, 2016

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The Price Is Never Right

• China Labour Bulletin, 南海争端——社会主义的分析 | A Socialist view of the South China Sea dispute, RedChinaCn.net, July 12, 2016

Abstract: It’s just an imperialist conflict between Washington and 北京 (Běijīng), through military and economic pressure in order to protect their respective interests in Asia. Socialists oppose the U.S. “rebalancing” and neoliberal capitalist economic blocs such as the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). We call for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Asia, but we also oppose the Chinese government’s military policies towards the neighbouring countries, which replicate the brutal methods used against workers, poors, and oppressed in China. [Read more].

中共喉舌《环球时报》发表的政见 | Global Times, a nationalist China’s Communist Party–controlled newspaper, gives its view. Image courtesy of RedChinaCn.net.