By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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China leads the global South’s great escape from poverty
While critics struggle desperately to dismiss or explain away China’s rapid and sustained growth, Beijing’s approach of mutual respect and interdependence is inspiring nations to break free from colonial shackles, writes ROGER McKENZIE
People walk past a Seagull electric vehicle from Chinese car manufacturers BYD parked at a showroom in Beijing, April 10, 2024
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
CHINA will be the world’s top contributor to global growth over the next five years. This is not some idle boast from the Communist Party of China (CPC), but rather, a prediction from one of China’s most consistent critics, the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The IMF predicts that China’s growth is set to outstrip the entire Group of Seven (G7) leading industrial nations combined. Its global growth will also, according to the IMF, be 61 per cent more than the planet’s most populous nation, India.
After years of being assured that the Chinese economy was in meltdown, these so-called impartial experts have been forced to come out with the truth.
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