Asia

The World Economy’s Centre Of Gravity Shifts To Asia

October 31, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! APEC, Asia, China, Global Economy, History

On the last day of October 2025, leaders from the 21 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will meet in the city of Gyeongju in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) for the organisation’s 33rd summit. Since its founding in 1989 in Canberra, Australia, APEC has promoted building a zone of ‘free and open trade’ – a concept outlined by the Bogor Goals, which came out of the summit in Indonesia in 1994. APEC is a creature of its times. First, it emerged as an instrument of Japan’s Pacific Economic Cooperation Council with the goal of building regional supply chains after the Plaza Accord (1985) appreciated the yen against the dollar.

What Is APEC?

August 25, 2025 Dae-Han Song, People's Dispatch. Strategize! APEC, ASEAN, Asia, China, Economics, Free Trade Zone, Hong Kong, Japan, Multipolar World, Multipolarity, Taiwan

If you look at the news, the media treats the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum more like a gala than a policy forum about regional economic policies. Despite high level meetings having occurred between the government and business interests (i.e., the APEC Business Advisory Committee), despite two senior official meetings having taken place, the media has done a negligible job of bringing the agenda and discussions in these meetings to public consciousness or debate. Instead, it has mostly focused on who will be there – K-pop megastar G-Dragon was named APEC Ambassador – or whether the accommodations and infrastructure are adequate.

When The Empire Chokes, The South Breathes

August 22, 2025 Prince Kapone, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Africa, Asia, BRICS, Capitalism, Global South, Globalization, Inequality, Middle East, Political economy, South America, US Imperialism

The story they sell is that “order” was built by reasoned men in sensible suits. The story we live is different. Multipolarity did not grow out of seminars or summits; it is the aftershock of five centuries of plunder, the recoil from wars and sanctions, and the refusal of the colonized to keep paying for someone else’s civilization. Its genealogy runs from the Bandung Communiqué (1955)—the first great gathering where the majority of humanity spoke in its own name—through the long detour of debt, structural adjustment, and counter-insurgency masquerading as “development.” Bandung’s promise was simple and subversive: sovereignty, peaceful coexistence, cooperation, and a say in the world economy for those who actually make the world economy run.

Western Narratives On War And Unrest In Syria

July 15, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace. Educate! Asia, Syria, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

In March 2025, Syria witnessed horrific sectarian massacres by government-backed forces targeting Alawites in the country’s northwest coastal regions. Since the violent takeover of the Syrian government by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in November/December 2024, nearly 8,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed. HTS, far from being an independent actor, functions as a proxy force advancing the geopolitical interests of the United States, Israel, and their allies, whose primary goal is to destabilize the region and maintain control over its resources. Damascus governor Maher Marwan indicates that HTS wants peace with Israel, while Israel’s destruction of Syria’s armed forces and anti-air defenses after HTS’s takeover of Damascus has elicited seemingly no criticism, let alone an armed response from Syria’s new rulers.

Despite The Pain In The World, Socialism Is Not A Distant Utopia

June 20, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Africa, Asia, Global South, Imperialis, Latin America, m, Multipolar World, Socialism

Every morning, I open the newspapers (now on apps rather than print) and read about atrocities taking place across the world. There is an inflation of pain, from the genocide in Gaza to the war in Sudan and the unreported chaotic violence in and around Myanmar. These conflicts seem interminable and might even confuse the casual observer who does not follow them closely. The current phase of Sudan’s war began in April 2023, with the Sudanese Armed Forces (led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan) arrayed against the Rapid Support Forces (led by Commander Mohamed ‘Hemedti’ Hamdan Dagalo).

China-Central Asia Summit Concludes With Call For Multipolar World Order

June 19, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Create! Asia, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Central Asia, China, Global South, Multipolar World, Regional cooperation, Xi Jinping

The second China-Central Asian summit concluded in Astana, Kazakhstan on Tuesday with countries signing a treaty on eternal good neighborliness, friendship, and cooperation as well as a joint Astana declaration. The summit was attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the five Cental Asian presidents, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan (the host country, Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan, Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan, and Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan. The Astana declaration, signed by all the participants, talks about enhancing cooperation in agriculture, energy, technology and transport sectors apart from intensifying cooperation on the global platforms with a common objective of upholding the basic principles of the UN charter and developing a joint stand against hegemonic politics.

China-Celac Forum Brings Latin America And China Together

May 14, 2025 Telesur, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Asia, CELAC, China, Global Economy, Latin America, Trade

Ten years after its creation, the China-CELAC Forum has consolidated its position as one of the most relevant platforms for dialogue between Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. “The platform has strengthened cooperation between CELAC members and China, based on sovereign equality, mutual respect, plurality, and shared benefits,” states the meeting’s final joint declaration. Under the theme “Planning development and revitalization together, jointly building a China-LAC community with a shared future,” the meeting brought together representatives from more than 30 countries and leaders such as Xi Jinping (China), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Gustavo Petro (Colombia), and Gabriel Boric (Chile).

Workers In South Asia Celebrated May Day

May 4, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Asia, Global South, May Day, Working Class

Thousands of workers took to the streets in different parts of South Asia to celebrate International Workers’ Day on Thursday, May 1. A sea of red flags and chants of “workers of the world unite” and “long live the martyrs of Chicago” reverberated in the atmosphere. Workers in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and elsewhere marched in discipline and raised the demands for fair wages, better working conditions, and employment rights for everyone. They reiterated their resolve to fight against capitalist exploitation and to create an alternative socialist world, extending their solidarity to the anti-imperialist movements across the world.

Close The US Military Bases In Asia

April 22, 2025 Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scheer Post. Educate! Asia, Japan, Korea, Military bases, US Foreign Bases, US Imperialism

President Donald Trump is again loudly complaining that the US military bases in Asia are too costly for the US to bear. As part of the new round of tariff negotiations with Japan and Korea, Trump is calling on Japan and Korea to pay for stationing the US troops. Here’s a much better idea: close the bases and return the US servicemen to the US. Trump implies that the US is providing a great service to Japan and Korea by stationing 50,000 troops in Japan and nearly 30,000 in Korea. Yet these countries do not need the US to defend themselves. They are wealthy and can certainly provide their own defense.

Birthing A New International Order

April 15, 2025 Jeffrey D. Sachs, Consortium News. Educate! African Union (AU), Asia, China, G20, History, India, Latin America, Multipolar World, NATO, Russia, United Nations (UN)

Writing in his cell as a political prisoner in fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously declared: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” A century later, we are in another interregnum, and the morbid symptoms are everywhere. The U.S.-led order has ended, but the multipolar world is not yet born. The urgent priority is to give birth to a new multilateral order that can keep the peace and the path to sustainable development. We are at the end of a long wave of human history that commenced with the voyages of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama more than 500 years ago.

The Chris Hedges Report: The World After Gaza

February 27, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Africa, Asia, Gaza, Global South, History, Holocaust, Israel, Palestine, Wars and Militarism, Zionism

The Holocaust is the quintessential example of human evil for people in the West. In the rest of the world, especially in the Global South, the atrocity of the Holocaust — genocide — has had a closer proximity both in time and place. Colonialism in Africa, destructive wars in Asia and most recently, genocide in the Middle East, have shaped the lives of billions of people. On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra joins host Chris Hedges to discuss his latest book, “The World After Gaza.” Mishra argues that the shifting power dynamics in the world means the Global South’s narrative on atrocity can no longer be ignored and the genocide in Gaza is the current crux of the issue.

Harris And Trump Want US Hegemony Over The World To Continue

November 4, 2024 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Educate! 2024 US Presidential elections, Asia, Bangladesh, Donald Trump, Modi US visit, Narendra Modi, Newsclick, Taimur Rahman, United States, US Imperialism

On November 5, the people of the United States will head to the polls to elect their next president and legislators. The two leading contenders in the presidential race, Donald Trump from the Republican party and Kamala Harris from the Democratic Party are neck and neck in the majority of opinion polls so far, generating increased speculation on what the outcome will be and what impact their policies may have on the world. With regards to South Asia, historically, the US has maintained relationships of a different character with countries in the region, and these relationships have rarely been impacted by a particular electoral outcome.

Britain Cedes Control Of Chagos Islands But Maintains Pentagon Base

October 13, 2024 Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Africa, African Union (AU), Asia, Britain, Chagos, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Mauritius, Southern African Development Community (SADC), US Imperialism, Western imperialism

After nearly six decades, the right to self-determination and independence is still being denied to the Indigenous people as the United States prepares for expanding imperialist wars in Asia and Africa.

How Australia Helps The United States Destabilize Asia

September 30, 2024 Maxwell Lane, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Asia, AUKUS, Australia, China, New Cold War, US Imperialism, US-China relations

September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the US) agreement. The purpose of this agreement is for Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the UK and the US This increases interoperability with US forces that are projecting their power in the region along the Chinese coast. Furthermore, Australia is participating in the QUAD and SQUAD, “[i]nformal Alliances in the Indo-Pacific.” The city of Darwin in northern Australia has been opened up for the US forces, including planes carrying nuclear weapons. In addition, Australia has long housed bases for US spy satellite systems.

‘Brain Dead’ And Dangerous, NATO Proceeds

July 17, 2024 Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. Educate! Asia, NATO, US Imperialism, Western imperialism

It is now five years since Emmanuel Macron, in one of those blunt outbursts for which he is known, told The Economist, in a reference to the collective West, “What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO.” The French president thereupon shocked officials across the Continent. “That is not my point of view,” Angela Merkel responded augustly. “I don’t think that such sweeping judgments are necessary.” Heiko Maas, the German chancellor’s foreign minister, added imaginatively, “I do not believe NATO is brain dead.” The North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrated its 75th anniversary last week, 32 presidents and prime ministers assembling in the same Washington auditorium where earlier leaders, 12 of them then, signed its founding treaty on April 4, 1949.

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