‘Red scare’ in US causes multi-year flood of refugees with PhDs to China. (archive.ph)
US officials scramble to slow China’s advances. Beijing’s diplomatic and business gains this year have been so great as to prompt panic in Washington. (archive.ph)
24 Nations Align Against US Dollar As BRICS Looks to Launch New Global Currency (dailyhodl.com)
Young US Communists Meet with Cuban University Students in Havana (www.cubanews.acn.cu)
The U.S. strategy of decoupling from China is going well - now the U.S. doesn't have access to domestic Chinese business intelligence (archive.ph)
Commission of Inquiry on MST aims to divert focus from crimes of agribusiness, says João Pedro Stedile (peoplesdispatch.org)
India Signs Deal to Adopt Moscow’s SPFS System for Banking Payments to Russia (thewire.in)
When Russia targets ordinary homes: the attacks that mean no one is safe in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
When a missile strike far from any frontlines killed 23 people this week, including a baby boy, and injured nine more, it would have been inexplicable were it not for the fact that Russian forces have for years directed attacks on civilians as a weapon of war. To the military that bombed schools and hospitals in Syria, and tried...
Chinese Banks' Bad Personal Housing Loans Soared Last Year as Foreclosures Rise (www.yicaiglobal.com)
Increment of non-performing mortgages for homebuyers at 12 of China’s listed banks surged 13.2 times last year from the year before as economic pressures make it harder for people to repay their loans.
Deadly Heat Threatens the Well-Being of 1 Billion People in India (www.wired.com)
Andriy Shevchenko: ‘I want to share with the world what Ukrainian people are feeling’ (www.theguardian.com)
The most famous former footballer from Ukraine, who won the Ballon d’Or in 2004 and the Europen Champions League with Milan before he also coached his country at Euro 2020, tells about his visits at hospitals in his homeland, and his push to raise funds for victims like the 6-year old Maryna, the first child in Ukraine to...
Russia launches deadly wave of missile attacks on Ukraine cities, mother and her three-year-old daughter killed (www.theguardian.com)
Though most of Russia’s attacks were intercepted, at least 17 people were killed in the city of Uman, including two children when a missile hit a residential building. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, tweeted: “Missile strikes killing innocent Ukrainians in their sleep, including a … child, is Russia’s...