Human Rights Watch (2025-01-16). North Korea: No Easing of Systemic Rights Abuses. hrw.org Click to expand Image | The town of Chunggang, North Korea, as seen from the Chinese border town of Linjiang, February 29, 2024. | © 2024 PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images | (Bangkok) — North Korea's government under Kim Jong Un in 2024 retained repressive Covid-19-era policies that restrict movement and trade and blocked humanitarian organizations from entering the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025.For the 546-page world report, in its 35th edition, Human Rights Watch reviewed human rights practices in more than 100 countries. In much of the world, Executive Director Ti…

Jody Jacobs (2025-01-16). UN braces for impact of Trump's second term. america.cgtn.com The United Nations is bracing itself for the worst case scenario should the Donald Trump administration decide to cut funding to the organization.
| During his first term, Trump suspended funding for the U.N. health and family planning agencies and withdrew from its cultural organization and top human rights body.
| Jody Jacobs reports from the United Nations in New York about what the next four years could potentially hold.

cameron orr (2025-01-15). Will there be war with China? cpusa.org Will there be a war with China? People are asking this question as there is a high level of tension near Taiwan and in the South China (East) Sea. U.S. imperialism pushes an aggressive posture with air and naval exercises and continues to arm Taiwan, in violation of previous agreements. Such a war would be a huge disaster for the working class. | Following up on the 2011 pivot to Asia, U.S. imperialism is creating new anti-China military alliances like AUKUS (which includes Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.), and is expanding its strategic military presence in the Pacific region, such as enlarging the naval bas…

ecns.cn (2025-01-13). Police dog in Yunnan 'criticized' by training base for four straight weeks. ecns.cn On Sunday, a police dog attracted people's attention on China's social media for being cited in weekly reports by the training base for four consecutive weeks. The report included incidents such as instigating fights and urinating on fellow dogs' beds.

ecns.cn (2025-01-13). Guangxi's selenium-rich soil ranks first in China, reaches 7.6 million hectares. ecns.cn Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China boasts 114 million mu (7.6 million hectares) of selenium-rich soil, the largest area nationally, said Liu Yongxian, a member of the the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Guangxi, on Sunday.

Joel Wendland-Liu (2025-01-13). Hu Yamin's new book on Chinese Marxist literary criticism. peoplesworld.org Hu Yamin is a prominent Chinese scholar specializing in comparative Marxist literary criticism. Her recent work, The Contemporary Construction of the Chinese Form of Marxist Literary Criticism, offers a historical-geographic comparative analysis of Western and Chinese Marxist literary theories. Her previous translated work includes a two-volume edited set titled Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and …