STWR - Share The World's Resources

Beijing's heavy rural investment has led commentators to see hope for global recovery in the Chinese countryside. Yet allocating funds to boost rural demand will fail to reverse China’s long-standing subordination of the poor to export-oriented industrialization, says Walden Bello.

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. 

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.

Though China continues to be a major player in global food exports, growing resource constraints and environmental costs could mean an end to “easy” growth for Chinese agriculture.