STWR - Share The World's Resources

China is rapidly forming trade, investment, technology, security and cultural links with Latin America. As ties expand rapidly, not all is positive from the Latin American perspective - the region must develop its own expertise in order to deal with the multiple challenges China will present, writes David Shambaugh. 

The North dominated world trade and power for two centuries, disrupting the pre-1800 international distribution of wealth and power. Now, the global balance is shifting to the East, and to primary producers of commodities worldwide. By Philip S Golub.

A large part of China’s remarkable economic development has been achieved at the expense of the basic rights of millions of former state-owned enterprise workers, says a new report released by Rights & Democracy and the China Labour Bulletin.

It was always considered bad economics to bail out India's millions of beleagured farmers, but swift government bailouts for the banks are considered a political necessity. ‘Where will the money come from?’ is not a question to be asked when you are subsidising the rich and the elite, says Devinder Sharma. 

Unlike the police states of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, China has built a Police State 2.0, an entirely for-profit affair that is the latest frontier for the global Disaster Capitalism Complex - and a society defined by "McCommunism", argues Naomi Klein.

A detailed analysis of nuclear weapons related developments in south Asia since 1998 - and the contradiction of amassing nuclear arms in a bid to establish peace, by Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana.