Welcome to the Featured Content section of the East View Press website. Here you will find select articles from our journals available to read for free, along with the table of contents for all current journal issues and some select back issues. Sample content is also available from select book titles. Be sure to check back often as new content is added on a weekly basis.
Golts: Moscow’s view of European security ignores the fact that host countries gave consent to U.S. presence on their territory in light of security threat posed by Russia.
Kremlin declares talks ‘failure’ as proposals are rebuffed and US senate mulls sanctions; Ryabkov: ‘Russia has never given in to threats or blackmail’; ruble, Russian markets tumble
Golts: Russian proposals are unacceptable to NATO, US, but contain some points that would improve European security overall; however, Moscow’s ultimatum stance shows it intends
to keep raising the stakes, threatening a war.
Lipsky: All signs indicate U.S., Russia, Ukraine not ready to go to war, but the situation is so volatile, any spark could set off fighting
Putin demands that NATO give assurances of no further eastward expansion; Laru: the initiative to join NATO is the prerogative of aspiring states, so giving such a guarantee would require amending the bloc’s charter
Xinhua: The West-led small circles are putting on a clumsy show after rushing one after another to groundlessly smear the election of the seventh-term Legislative Council (LegCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday [Dec. 17] refuted a US claim concerning Australia-UK-US (AUKUS) trilateral nuclear submarine cooperation, urging the three not to go ahead with the cooperation and the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Secretariat not to have consultation with the three countries on the so-called safeguards arrangements until consensus is reached by all parties.
Zhong Sheng: The US should immediately stop its wrong acts that challenge the one-China principle, truly abide by the stipulations of the three China-US joint communiqués, and stop sending any dangerous and erroneous signal to the “Taiwan independence” forces.
Dong Yue: “Washington should wake up from its hegemonic delusion. Hegemony in the guise of democracy is poisonous for America, and destructive for the world. If the world’s sole superpower really wants to promote democracy, the best contribution it can make at the moment is to look inward, and fix its chaotic and dysfunctional democracy at home.”
Xinhua: Chinese President Xi Jinping had a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday [Nov. 16]. The two sides had thorough and in-depth communication and exchanges on issues of strategic, overarching and fundamental importance shaping the development of China-US relations and on important issues of mutual interest.