BRICS and Belt and Road: Will China Lead In the 21st Century?
BRICS and Belt and Road are just two of the key features of China’s modern day foreign policy and, some would argue, a new form of internationalism. These development projects are part of China’s more assertive stance toward the United States in recent years, under the leadership of Xi Jinping. But this recent phase in […]
FIFA’s Hypocrisy: Russia Banned While Israel’s Genocide Doesn’t Even Get a Penalty
Ashish Prashar, Political strategist and former advisor to the Middle East peace envoy, joins the show to expose FIFA’s glaring hypocrisy over Palestine. Despite Israel killing 368 Palestinian footballers since the start of the Gaza genocide, the world’s governing body for soccer refuses to ban Israel from international matches—yet it swiftly banned Russia over the […]
Is TikTok’s Time Up? Will the Supreme Court Strike Down Free Speech to Spite China?
On this episode of The China Report, co-host KJ Noh and guest host Eugene Puryear discuss the upcoming US Supreme Court hearing that could lead to an effective ban on TikTok in the United States. The two discuss the impact on First Amendment rights if SCOTUS rules against TikTok and how this case fits into […]
Don’t Count on the Democrats to Actually ‘Resist’ Trump with Briahna Joy Gray
Briahna Joy Gray, host of the Bad Faith podcast, joins the show to discuss the emerging cracks in Trump’s “faux-populist coalition” and what kind of “resistance” we can expect from the Democrats to Trump’s incoming ultra-right agenda. From Trump’s plans to deport millions of immigrant families to escalating Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Gray explains why […]
Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Save Jobs, But They Will Hit Your Pockets: Economist Explains
Michael Roberts, a socialist economist and author of the blog The Next Recession, joins the show to discuss the global economic outlook for 2025. Amid surging wealth inequality, Europe’s economic turmoil, and Trump’s vow to reignite trade wars with sweeping tariffs on imports, Roberts breaks down what lies ahead for workers.
Amsterdam Clashes: Media Ignored Israelis Chanting ‘Death to Arabs’
Zachary Foster, a historian of Palestine, joins the show to break down the last week of attacks in Amsterdam and debunk the widespread narrative in mainstream media of antisemitic “pogroms.” Foster explains how the media twisted the unfolding events by omitting the anti-Muslim, anti-Arab violence and threats from Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans that […]
Niger’s Youth ‘Refuse to Be Obedient’ to US and France | Sahel Solidarity Conference
Filmata Taya, member of Niger’s M62 movement, addresses the historic “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel” in Niamey, Niger. “Today we have the Alliance of Sahel States that our enemies do not like,” says Taya. The US and France have militarily, economically and politically dominated the region for decades, but that era […]
Israeli Raids in the Occupied West Bank Fuel a New Wave of Resistance
Tulkarem-based journalist and researcher Anan Quzmar joins the show to break down Israel’s escalating violence in the occupied West Bank. Quzmar calls the violence a “natural outcome” of the “Israeli leadership’s ideological trajectories of further entrenching the occupation and displacing Palestinians” and the “continued international support shielding Israel from accountability.” Israel’s frequent violent incursions, Quzmar […]