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By banning TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded its ongoing military confrontation with China to include trade. While it will keep his voters happy, the brewing stand-off has exposed the yawning gap between global geopolitics and Modi’s propaganda. Since coming to power in 2014, Modi and his Bharatiya […] More
Bill could go before Donald Trump as early as Thursday, amid calls for a strong action against China over Hong Kong crackdown US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called the House vote on sanctions ‘an urgently needed response to the cowardly Chinese government’s passage of its so-called national security law’. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA […] More
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the shortcomings of the capitalist and institutionally racist systems that govern our world, but its precedence in the media has drawn attention away from human rights abuses that continue to take place. Worse still, the global lockdowns caused by the public health crisis have been relentlessly exploited by various […] More
The Black Lives Matter movement has been sweeping advanced liberal democracies, from the United States to Western Europe, impacting even those countries, such as Switzerland, comparatively marginally involved in the slave trade. Black Lives Matter confronts all of these societies with their historical role in the trafficking and exploitation of human beings, whose only “defect” […] More
Editor’s Note: These are unprecedented times. A global pandemic has changed life as we know it. In recent months, Fair Observer has examined the crisis through political, economic and social lenses, publishing articles from around the world. The result is three 360° series that we urge you to read. You too can get involved in […] More
President Trump held off on imposing tougher sanctions on Chinese officials blamed for a crackdown on China’s Uighur Muslim minority because of concern such measures would have interfered with trade negotiations, he said in an interview published on Sunday. “Well, we were in the middle of a major trade deal. And I made a great […] More
The term soft power was coined by Joseph Nye in the late 1980s as a country’s ability to influence others without the use of force. Soft power is established in culture and grounded in history, unlike hard power, which is based on coercion and the use of military and economic means. Soft power and hard […] More
Justice department says ‘recent actions’ by China towards its territory indicate landing station could expose US communications to spying The US justice department wants an undersea data cable to bypass Hong Kong for fear Beijing could harvest American data. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images The US government wants a high-capacity undersea data cable system […] More
