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All Roads (and Railways) Leading to China… and the West Ain’t Happy
October 6, 2022
China’s ascendant global power is showing up the increasingly bankrupt condition of the United States and its Western allies.
Why Laos, Vietnam & China Have Beaten the Virus and India, Brazil and the U.S. Have Not
July 17, 2020
Vijay Prashad explores the differences between the pandemic responses of a few countries with socialist governments and others in the capitalist order.
Where the Silk Roads Meet the Mighty Mekong
April 26, 2019
Like a high-tech divinity, the 21st century irrupts across the immemorial Mekong, which in Laos is appropriately named Mae Nam Khong or the Mother of Waters. Welcome to the China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor, one of the key planks of the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).