Roundup: “Historic” Decline in US Life Expectancy Reveals System Problems, Inequality! (9.8.2022)

The COVID-19 is not solely to blame. Longstanding health problems — rooted in poverty, discrimination and poor access to health care — left Native Americans and Alaska Natives particularly vulnerable to the virus, said Ann Bullock, former director of diabetes treatment and prevention at the federal agency of Indian Health Service.

The non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native population experienced the greatest decline of life expectancy by 1.9 years between 2020 and 2021, according to NCHS report.

The cumulative decline since the pandemic started, more than 6.5 years on average, has brought life expectancy to 65 among Native Americans and Alaska Natives — on par with the figure for all Americans in 1944.

One in seven Native Americans and Alaska Natives has diabetes, the highest rate among racial or ethnic groups in the United States, and many struggle with obesity or excess weight. Both conditions make people more susceptible to severe COVID-19, and crowded multigenerational housing adds to the risk, said The New York Times.

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China Focus: CPC Corruption Fight Intensified in Past Decade! (8.9.2022)

Since 2012, the fugitive repatriation and asset recovery office under China’s Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group has sent 12 teams overseas to carry out international law enforcement cooperation.

In the meantime, China has also introduced a raft of legislation in the field, including the Supervision Law, the revised Criminal Procedure Law and the Law on International Judicial Assistance in Criminal Matters.

As an active participant in and contributor to the global anti-corruption fight, China has taken an active part in anti-corruption consultations under the United Nations, APEC, G20 and other multilateral mechanisms.

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Decoupling Viewed as Risky Bet for US! (8.9.2022)

The ordinary people of capitalist India – led as they are by the fascist (and inherently anti-China) sabre-rattling BJP – are no better off after 75 years of so-called ‘Independence’ from direct British rule! Indeed, the bourgeois class of India is still controlled by the bourgeois class of a ‘White’ Europe and remains subordinate to it! Vast areas of the Indian population languish in abject poverty, illiteracy and religious ignorance! By comparison, the ‘Socialist’ market forces of the CPC STOP the destructive nature of US free market economics at China’s geographical borders and do not allow such socially destructive and corrosive forces to enter China’s hinterland! China is recouping – through its ‘Socialist’ cleverness – the wealth stolen from China over the last four-hundreds years by the ‘one-sided’ behaviour and ‘unequal’ treaties imposed by the colonialist and imperialist forces of Europe, and ‘Communist’ China is doing this by beating the West at its own game!

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Ministry Slams US Report on China’s CEE Influence

Since the launch of the China-CEEC cooperation mechanism 10 years ago, fruitful results have been achieved in more than 20 fields including trade and investment, interconnectivity, tourism and the response to COVID-19, Mao said, noting that all participants have benefited from such cooperation.

According to the Ministry of Commerce, China-CEEC trade expanded 8.4 percent year-on-year to $103.45 billion in 2020, and bilateral trade maintained an average annual growth rate of 8 percent between 2012 and 2020.

Large projects such as the Belgrade-Budapest Railway, which links Serbia and Hungary, benefit people in both countries, Mao added. The spokeswoman said that China has no geopolitical agenda in Central and Eastern Europe and always opposes the politicization of cooperation.

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China: Nation Steps Up Fight to Safeguard Cultural Relics! (7.8.2022)

The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) is presented by the bias West as one giant wave of manic (physical) destruction throughout the entirety of China! This fits in well with the racialisation of the Chinese people – who are presented in Western media ‘as not quite human at all’! The ‘Cultural Revolution’ attacked one very important element of world imperialist domination – and that was the attitude of ‘bourgeois’ White dominance that lived on in China through elements of its institutions corrupted by the rhetoric of the right-wing ‘Nationalist’ government (defeated elements of which had invaded and took refuge on the island of Taiwan), and the survival of feudalistic and imperialistic tendencies! Yes, in some areas ‘old’ physical objects were attacked by over zealous youths (who mistook material objects for the ethereal ideas that produced them or that had become associated with them), but this was not everywhere, and neither was this behaviour continuous! The ‘Cultural Revolution’ possessed many progressive and positive elements that benefitted the people of China! Today, the ‘Cultural Revolution’ continuous with the preservation of of ancient artefacts as the racist bourgeois (and ‘imperialistic’) attitudes have been thoroughly defeated! There is nothing to fear from the material past and everything to learn!

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