Despite the adoring support from Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Javier Milei’s radical-right free-market nightmare is unravelling, and the people are beginning to score major victories against the government in the streets and in elections, reports BEN HAYES

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.”

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

From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
