Some of these contradictions, along with American and Chinese capital jockeying for influence in the region and GCC's growing in the international financial markets, are sketched out briefly in some interesting concluding observations.. ..…

Du Bois followed the Indian independence movement with fascination, drawing inspiration from that struggle and seeing in Nehru’s plan for an “Indian socialism” an echo of his own conception of a Black cooperatives-based alternative to American capitalism. Du Bois was also deeply invested in the..…

In October, an American Navy destroyer, the USS Lassen, contested China’s claim of territorial waters, provoking Chinese patrol boats to challenge its presence. Then in December an American B-52 bomber flew near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. ..…