The US continues to have the largest total number of cases of COVID-19. In the last month, China has had zero domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases.
The difference in their response to COVID-19 is staggering.
Mike Pompeo’s recent condemning the environmental impact of the Chinese economy is a spectacular own goal. It draws attention to how badly the US itself is failing to deal with climate breakdown.
British China expert Jude Woodward, who sadly passed away recently, had given us the essential The US versus China, Asia’s new cold war? Moreover she left us two documents, which will give us an insight into the true nature of the US-China contradiction in 2020, during and after the COVID-19 crisis as well, which can be read here.
The Black Lives Matter movement has become the focus of attacks for Trump’s election campaign. He cannot campaign on the economy, nor on his own handling of the coronavirus crisis and he might attempt some international provocation before polling day.
The Black Lives Matter movement has remained resilient and its protests continue.
Already reeling from job losses and pay cuts, workers and those on fixed incomes will see their living standards fall even further, if central bankers’ policy to increase inflation is successful.
A Marxist analysis from China of the recent Black Lives Matter protests – translated by republished by the Qiao Collective.
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