Author: Christine Schier

As University administrators collaborate with local police to silence dissent on campuses, Congressmen are racing to enact legislation to empower a thought police to monitor “anti-Semitism” and “extremism” which they claim leads to “violence and intimidation”. Leaders of both political parties in the U.S. are falsely denouncing protesters as anti-Semites and pro-Hamas, and have called for many to be arrested […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping began his first visit to Europe since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic on May 6, amid tremendous financial and geopolitical turbulence worldwide, and the acute danger of world war. Beginning in France, his trip will also take him to Serbia and Hungary. By all accounts, both from China-bashers and from those in favor of cooperation, […]

First was decoupling, then de-risking, now it is “overcapacity”: U.S. and EU leaders have no trouble in finding narratives to justify geopolitical hostility to China. During U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent visit to China, he pointed to the “unfair trade practices” and the potential consequences of “industrial overcapacity” for global and U.S. markets. In China a few days […]

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has done it again. During her just-concluded trip to Australia and New Zealand, she again talked up the importance of economic warfare against China, while announcing an increased military presence of the German Navy in the Pacific and the Taiwan Strait. In this context, the table.media China newsletter published an interview May 6, with a […]

On April 30, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) voted 15-1 to reject Nicaragua’s case calling for a provisional order to be issued for Germany to stop arming Israel, and to renew funding for UNRWA (which the government actually did at the end of April). However, the court rejected Germany’s application to throw the case out, and will continue the […]

The World Bank’s International Development Association was hit with more criticism than it reckoned at the forum for African heads of state it organized April 29 in Nairobi, Kenya. The announced focus was on favorable lending terms and strategies to bolster sustainable development and promote foreign investment, but a number of participants disagree with the approach imposed by the West. […]

After decades of discussion and planning, a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) is now being built in South Korea. Such reactors, in the range of 50 to 300 megawatts, could be built with components mass produced in factories at far lower costs than the 1,000 megawatt and larger nuclear power plants (NPP). They would also be ideal for the establishment of […]

On May 3, China launched one of the most complicated space missions yet endeavored, which aims to retrieve samples from the far side of the Moon, for the first time ever. The Chang’e-6 mission involves four separate vehicles—an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a re-entry module. Unlike most other missions, there will be no “direct” contact with the vehicles, […]

With no end in sight to Israel’s killings of Palestinians in Gaza, and with the U.S. Congress voting for another $15 billion aid package for Israel, protests have erupted on college campuses throughout the United States, leading to panicked calls from pro-war officials for a harsh crackdown on demonstrators. The protesters’ demands include an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, humanitarian aid […]

The visit of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing April 23-26 was part of the high-level exchanges that had been decided on by Presidents Xi and Biden last November at their summit in San Francisco. The primary purpose was to keep the all-important U.S.-China relationship on an even keel. The task assigned to Blinken by his boss Joe […]