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Germany and China: their future together v the sanctions regime
Here we reprint an abridged version of a speech by SEVIM DAGDELEN, a die Linke member of the German Bundestag
(L to R) Sevim Dagdelen, a die Linke member of the German Bundestag and The sleep of reason produces monsters from Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos/Caprices
[(L to R) DIE LINKE Nordrhein-Westfalen/CC - Public domain] 
YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
WE should begin by discussing a book which is important to understand the present-day situation: The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern Warfare by Nicolas Mulder, if we are to understand German-Chinese relations in an era of global South emancipation.
He explains the historic development of sanctions as a weapon of modern warfare, beginning with the first world war and described in 1919 by US president Woodrow Wilson as having an effect which was “something more tremendous than war.”
It must be noted that the US, Nato and their allies in Asia, Australia and Europe are not only conducting a proxy war against Russia by supplying weapons — increasingly heavy weapons — to Ukraine, but are also waging economic war with the aim, as stated by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, of “ruining Russia.”
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What began as a regional alliance now courts Australia, Japan and South Korea while preparing three-front warfare — but this overreach accelerates Nato’s own crisis as member states surrender sovereignty to the US, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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