U.S. issues angry trade rebuke to China, India [Archive]

redwinter

29th July 2008, 17:01

Imperialist domination of the oppressed countries has gone through a twisting and complex history and India and China are no exceptions to this.

However, there are still some huge differences. The Indian bourgeoisie's more openly subordinated status as a newly emerging junior partner of US imperialism in south Asia and regional enforcer of imperialist interests contrasts with that of the Chinese bourgeoisie which tends to view itself as having growing ability to manuever and deal with the imperialists, with great-power ambitions that are more and more clashing with those of the US imperialists (to which China is still in a subordinate role).

However there is the particularity in this article of food: India has been much more impacted negatively by the current global food crisis than China has (although it has caused great devastation everywhere), to a certain extent due to the infrastructure built up under socialism in China during the time of Mao - despite the gutting of the "iron rice bowl" by Deng Xiaoping and the fact that food security in China is not a given now as it was from 1970-1976 when China had acheived food independence. So it might be a more pressing need for the Indian ruling class to contend with the imperialists over this issue of food import and export tariffs, due to the international situation and also the particulars going on there (a lot of upheaval and unrest fueled by many different and often opposing political forces, ranging from Islamic and Hindu fundamentalists to revolutionaries and communists) in order to keep their system going there.

A couple recent articles that might help shed some light on the overall situation:

* From A World to Win News Service: On the proposed U.S.-India nukes pact (http://www.revcom.us/a/138/AWTW%20India-en.html)
(http://www.revcom.us/a/138/AWTW%20India-en.html) - goes into detail on US and Indian relations and the role of India in the region and world

* CHINA’S CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND CHINA’S RISE IN THE WORLD IMPERIALIST SYSTEM: ITS NATURE AND IMPLICATIONS (http://www.revcom.us/a/137/lotta_faultlines_pt2-en.html) (Part 2 of Shifts and Faultlines in the World Economy and Great Power Rivalry: What is Happening and What it Might Mean) by Raymond Lotta (http://www.revcom.us/a/137/lotta_faultlines_pt2-en.html)
- an analysis of the changes going on within China and their reverberations on the world imperialist system