The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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China and Europe: a timely two-way endeavour
China’s opening up empowers the world, and Sino-European co-operation especially holds immense potential, argues LIANG TAO, from infrastructure and industrial capacity to cultural exchange between two ancient civilisations
POSITIVE MESSAGE: Chinese Premier Li Qiang
Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR
KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
THE recently concluded “Two Sessions” in Beijing have drawn global attention. Against the backdrop of a sluggish global economic recovery and mounting risks and challenges, the international community eagerly sought insights, opportunities, and inspiration from this year’s sessions on how China will advance high-quality development to help alleviate global economic woes.
The Chinese government’s work report, which set an economic growth target of around 5 per cent for the year, has garnered significant global attention. In a world grappling with economic stagnation, how will China contribute to global development?
In delivering the report, Chinese Premier Li Qiang emphasised the paramount importance of high-quality development and reaffirmed China’s unwavering commitment to opening up. This message sends a strong and positive signal to a world struggling with economic uncertainty and sluggish recovery.
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