Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti has been incarcerated for “ethnic separatism” since 2014. New translations of his work offer a primary source for understanding the material conditions at the heart of the Xinjiang emergency.
If the conflicts of interest are real, and the stakes are felt to be high enough, then war between the United States and China is a real possibility, and our foreign policy must be oriented toward avoiding it.
Cold War metaphors have crept into the public discourse about Taiwan. These analogies mislead more than they illuminate.
For those whose hyphenated identities straddle a divided world, life is a series of compromises.
American rhetoric during the first Cold War relied on an idealized image of U.S. institutions. Today, political elites are more likely to emphasize their vulnerability.
Why is China’s internet industry putting an end to the grueling schedules that have fueled so much of its growth?
Like almost every other war film, The Battle at Lake Changjin is less a work of art than a social engineering project.
By telling her story, tennis champion Peng Shuai revealed how a violent power structure hides its violence, and the perverse way in which it drags in its victims.
Artificial intelligence has often been adopted in ways that reinforce exploitation and domination. But that doesn’t mean we should greet all new AI tools with refusal.
While China is often seen as an outlier from neoliberal trends, its transformation in recent decades was not at odds with tectonic shifts in the global system of growth but an essential part of it.
A conversation about what rising U.S.-China tensions mean for workers and the labor movement in both countries.
In Wong Kar Wai’s movies, nostalgia is the characters’ constant state. In 2046, a sense of imminent loss gives the director’s vision an edge of defiance.
Reflections on what The New Yorker Union won, how they did it, and what other workers can learn from their victory.
China’s rapid economic growth is built on a factory system that relies on hundreds of millions of exploited workers. In the face of repression, those workers have found creative ways to resist.
To promote democratic and egalitarian ideals today, we need to break with the anxieties that drove U.S. politics during the Cold War.
