This month’s Review of the Month by John Bellamy Foster illuminates the idea of extractivism, a key concept in understanding our current planetary crisis.
As capitalism continues to fuel the planetary crisis, David Barkin and Brian M. Napoletano propose that the communitarian revolutionary subject is already…
China Daily, August 15, 2020.
Junfu Zhao is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Utah. Zhao can be reached at junfu.zhao [at] utah.edu. The author thanks Rudiger von Arnim, Minqi Li, and Han Cheng for their helpful comments.
Following the Donald Trump administration’s publication of its 2017
National Security Strategy and 2018
National Defense Strategy that designated China as a strategic competitor, the tensions between the United States and China have been heightened, encompassing trade disputes, China’s economic regime and territorial sovereignty, conflicts over geopolitical influences, and even the portrayed confrontation between liberal democracy and authoritarianism.
1 The inauguration of the Joe Biden administration has not significantly changed U.S. foreign policy toward China. In his
“It’s so fascinating to watch these rascal macaque monkeys trick the squirrels.”
Saw something similar in a documentary series where they were interviewing a former Japanese soldier from the Pacific war. None of his unit had ever been in a jungle before and did not know what was safe and what was dangerous to eat. It was a frightening time for them. They quickly learned that all they had to do was watch what the monkeys ate since if it was safe enough for a monkey to eat, it would probably be safe enough for a human to eat too.