China Launches Major Drills Around Taiwan After Tsai-McCarthy Meeting
McCarthy was the highest-level US official to meet with a Taiwanese president since the 1979 diplomatic shift.
Chinese Official Warns McCarthy Meeting With Taiwanese President Would Be ‘Provocation’
A potential visit with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen "seriously violates the One China principle, harms China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and destroys peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," said…
Iran Discovered To Have 10% of World’s Lithium Deposits, in Good News for China’s EV Industry
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Indian Express reports from Iran’s PressTV that the country has discovered a deposit of 8.5 million tons of…
Missing Links in Textbook History: The Roots of the American War in Vietnam
Jim Mamer continues his series deconstructing the flaws in American history taught in high school classrooms, this time tackling the Vietnam War.
US Ambassador Arrogantly Lectures China ‘Threat’: ‘We’re the Leader in This Region (Asia)!’
In an interview with the Chamber of Commerce, US Ambassador Nicholas Burns referred to China as a “threat”, “great challenge”, and “very difficult government”, stating arrogantly, “The United States is…
Patrick Lawrence: The Return of Non-Alignment
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Ukraine conflict as catalyst: I wonder how many people who pay attention understood a year ago that Russia’s intervention and the West’s…
Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine
By Krishen Mehta / CounterPunch In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys conducted in 137 countries…
A Dangerous Fishing Expedition: The Select Committee on China
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Riled up against China, GOP congressmembers have long felt that Washington’s new cold war needed a special venue. So as soon as the baton passed…
Ray McGovern: The Last Chance to Avoid World War III?
The CIA expert and Russia specialist who served seven presidents under risks of nuclear war is alarmed that the war in Ukraine has brought us to the most dangerous moment…
Patrick Lawrence: Russia Takes Another Step Back From the West
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost News that Russia will suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms pact, which arrived Tuesday via Vladimir Putin’s annual address to…
It’s Not All Balloon Buffoonery: Weaponizing Anti-China Paranoia
By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost The U.S. suffered worldwide embarrassment in the last two weeks while the American media and Republican and Democratic politicians hyperventilated over four UFO…
Putin Announces Suspension of the New START Treaty
New START is the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia.
Patrick Lawrence: Munich as Propaganda Fest
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I love Wang Yi’s response when The New York Times’s Michael Crowley caught him in a hallway at the Munich Security Conference Saturday…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Cold War Origins
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you’re always afraid You step out of line, the man come…
Nostalgia for the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Roger Harris / CounterPunch Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the…