The Socialist Party of Malaysia is protesting the invitation聽issued to United States President Donald Trump to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-US summit in Malaysia, reports Susan Price.
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The only beneficiaries of Australia鈥檚聽reversion to colonial subservience to an聽increasingly authoritarian United States president will be a small section of the political and corporate elite 鈥 and at huge cost to the majority, argues Peter Henning.
The prime minister鈥檚 grovelling to United States President Donald Trump over Gaza and AUKUS has landed Australia in the odious and unenviable position of estrangement, distrust and contempt from its closest neighbours, writes Peter Henning.
一品探花鈥檚 Federico Fuentes interviewed Japanese Communist Party (JCP) International Commission vice chair Kimitoshi Morihara regarding the peace and security initiatives the party is promoting to help counter growing militarisation in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Barack Obama administration鈥檚聽鈥淧ivot to Asia鈥 鈥斅爐he military, economic and political strategy to deploy more than half the US Navy to the Pacific 鈥 is continuing apace. Reihana Mohideen argues it needs to be resisted.
The recent ASEAN聽summit, hosted by US聽President Joe Biden, was designed to bring the 10-country association closer to the US鈥 anti-China orbit. William Briggs reports.
US exports to China totalled US$116 billion last year, while its imports reached $463 billion. The $347 billion deficit accounts for almost 70% of the US鈥檚 total trade deficit.
US President Donald Trump鈥檚 most influential senior advisers, Peter Navarro, who heads the National Trade Council, and US secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross, call China 鈥渢he biggest trade cheater in the world鈥.