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Sun Lei, China's deputy UN representative, rebutted Western criticism at the Third Committee, condemning smears by the UK, Australia, Japan and others while citing China's poverty gains and UK poverty figures.

Keith Bennett, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, recounts in 'Brits in Revolution' how Michael Lindsay joined a 1938 guerrilla railway attack and sent the first 'Xinhua News Agency Yan'an' English broadcast in 1945, arguing British and Chinese struggles were one fight.

Hangzhou, a 12.7-million-person megacity whose digital economy is 29.5 percent of GDP, hosts DeepSeek and Unitree, yet Zhejiang's data-service electricity use rose 159 percent in 2025, prompting a 1.2 power-usage ceiling on new data centres.

Venezuela's supermarket sector has grown for five consecutive years, with 91 new stores opening in 2026 and 98% supply levels, most of it domestically produced, according to the ANSA industry association.

The US chip blockade that once helped cripple the Soviet computer industry is being turned on China, but China's deep integration in world markets and state planning of AI and power infrastructure limit its effect.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Panama near Pitaloza Arriba, prompting a regional tsunami threat bulletin for Pacific coasts and causing structural damage, school closures, and airport checks.

A PSUV delegation in Mexico confronted Gustavo Petro over claims that Venezuela abandoned Cuban combatants during the January 3 US assault, amid disputes over sovereignty and electoral recognition.

Venezuela's telecom regulator CONATEL granted SpaceX licenses and Ku-band concessions to operate Starlink satellite internet nationwide, part of a broader push to modernise networks under its 2026-2031 telecommunications plan.

South African jurist Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her international justice work, including the UN inquiry finding Israel committed genocide in Gaza, and jokes about sharing it with Trump.

Washington's push to reorganise Western Hemisphere mineral wealth around US industrial and military needs, from Latin American lithium to Greenland's rare earths, extends the Monroe Doctrine and pressures sovereign development.

Saudi Arabia's Operation Yemen's Dawn, a US- and Israeli-backed offensive to seize Yemen's western coast, collapsed as Ansarallah forces imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh and struck Saudi airbases and oil facilities.

Argentina and Israel signed a defense memorandum in Buenos Aires, deepening military cooperation under President Milei's alignment with Washington and Tel Aviv and extending existing regional security agreements.

A Guardian open letter signed by 24 leftists urging solidarity with Iran's "political prisoners" is exposed as a regime-change tactic, drawing a fierce anti-imperialist backlash and six withdrawals.

Venezuela's acting president reports 22 consecutive quarters of growth, 6.5% third-quarter expansion, slowing inflation and rising consumption at the Fedecámaras business assembly, alongside new oil, gas and mining agreements.

Taiwan's tourism sector suffers occupancy rates near 20% as DPP authorities block cross-strait group tours, forfeiting mainland visitor spending during China's National Day holiday boom.

Online mockery greets a British professor's claim that South Korea joined an anti-Western bloc by allegedly aiding Russia, as netizens satirise shifting support for Ukraine.

Rita Giménez discusses China's gig worker protections, Belt and Road infrastructure, multipolarity, EU anti-China rhetoric, and cultural barriers to cross-border cooperation from her base in Shenzhen.

Rita Gimenez argues the EU's trade-deficit blame on China masks imperial rhetoric, tracing Europe's deindustrialisation and colonial legacy to explain its contradictory China policy.

Rita Giménez joins Ileana to challenge claims of oppressive Chinese labour conditions and explain China's gig economy reforms, platform worker protections and algorithm rules compared with the Global North.

Dimitri Lascaris argues Mark Carney's stand against Trump is a political scam, as Canada aligns with Washington on military spending, the digital services tax and the war on Iran while fast-tracking energy projects for US capital.

Dimitri Lascaris argues that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's anti-Trump reputation is a political scam, masking a neoliberal agenda aligned with Washington on military spending, digital taxes and war on Iran.

A weekly round-up covering three years since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Palestinian prisoners and settler violence, Israel's failing propaganda war, US interference in Brazil's election, and French youth protests.

Asa Winstanley and Jake Green examine how British political rhetoric on Israel's occupation of Palestine is shifting, from Labour's tonal change to the Green Party's motion defining Zionism as racism.

The Communist Party of Ireland marked the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China at a Dublin embassy reception, deepening party ties with Beijing through conferences and academic exchanges.

Washington's chip and AI blockade of China is compared to the Cold War CoCom embargo that helped sink the Soviet economy, arguing China's planned AI build-out and light military burden let it resist.

John Moolenaar demanded Starbucks close its two new Urumqi stores; he voted for a US$26 billion Israel aid package, while the Trump administration prepares a US$2.8 billion sale of 60,000 heavy bombs.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was illegally captured by the Israeli military on December 27, 2024; his weight dropped by one-third in captivity, where he remains alongside at least 160 other medical professionals, including 20 doctors.

More than 150 activists, scholars and trade unionists gathered in north London for the third annual Socialist China Conference, marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

Venezuela's ambassador to the DR Congo proposes exporting El Sistema, the publicly funded youth orchestra programme, to Congolese youth reintegration centres, with Congolese government support.

A US federal judge denied medical bail for Venezuela's First Lady Cilia Flores despite her deteriorating cardiac condition, as solidarity campaigns demand the release of her and President Maduro.

Venezuela's foreign minister addresses the ECLAC session in the Dominican Republic, urging regional integration, diversified alliances, and an end to unilateral coercive measures against developing nations.

Washington is pressuring Latin American governments to expel Chinese capital from strategic ports, energy and infrastructure, but even far-right administrations keep ties with their main trading partner.

Venezuelan rural communes in Bolívar state pursue agroecological food production and collective land use, framing food sovereignty as a human right against corporate control and market logic.

An Ecuadorian judge acquitted 32 crew members of two fishing boats destroyed by US military forces in the Pacific, ruling that prosecutors presented no evidence linking them to drug trafficking.

A US-backed reactionary wave has swept Latin America, and after Washington abducted President Maduro, Venezuela faces a forced negotiated sovereignty under an oil deal that leaves Chavismo intact but constrained.