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China: Labour must choose co-operation or oblivion
With the doomsday clock now set at 90 seconds to midnight, Labour urgently needs a China strategy distinct from that of the US, writes PAUL ATKIN
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomes Ashley Dalton (centre left) to the Houses of Parliament in London as the newly elected Labour MP for West Lancashire
PAUL ATKIN argues that we must avoid being tied to the millstone of US energy policy — a death sentence paid for by big oil — and embrace co-operation with the world’s green leader for a renewable, sustainable future
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
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ZHANG HE highlights pressure coming from the global South for a more multilateral approach to global governance and a more equitable world order
WE need to step back from any policies or ways of thinking that will set the Doomsday Clock even closer, or take us right into armageddon.
Whatever critique anyone has of China, or aspects of Chinese policy, a programme of disengagement and decoupling like that advocated by Sonny Leung and Sam Goodwin on Labour List last month, which involves cutting off Chinese investment and trade and limiting overseas students, would lock us into an economic war that is an inexorable step towards the real thing.
This is not hyperbole. There is a strong body of opinion in US foreign policy circles that the US needs to fight a war with China this decade by stoking up tensions around Taiwan, as the only way to prevent its peaceful economic rise and increasing technological sophistication overhauling the US and putting an end to any prospect that the 21st will be a “new American century.”
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