Understanding the elections in Taiwan The main, Western-backed separatist party has returned to power – but with a smaller majority, thanks in part to the emergence of a ‘third camp’ sitting between full independence and reunification with China, explains KENNY COYLE
Friday 24th Mar 2023 British war-hawks’ new flirtation with Taiwan is bad news KENNY COYLE explains that the recent British-Taiwanese all-party parliamentary group visit to the contested island is part of a drive to get involved in a conflict Britain had the good sense to abandon in the 1970s
Friday 18th Nov 2022 Analysis Untangling the Polish missile crisis: did the US know what was afoot from the start? KENNY COYLE on the background of the explosion in Przewodow
Monday 07th Nov 2022 Is Britain already at war with Russia? Britain gave £2.3 billion to Ukraine’s war effort in 2022, along with vehicles, equipment and training of soldiers on British soil — but direct involvement in the war long predates the Russian invasion, explains KENNY COYLE
Friday 07th Oct 2022 Why shouldn’t Taiwan be independent? The debate around Taiwanese independence in the West largely ignores what Taiwan's actual politics and territorial aspirations are — it does in fact see itself as part of China, but the 'true China' — this is the real dispute, argues KENNY COYLE
Friday 23rd Sep 2022 Muddying the waters KENNY COYLE exposes the confusion and misinformation at the heart of Western media coverage of China and Taiwan
Tuesday 20th Sep 2022 The US gets ready for war in Taiwan Despite a history of diplomacy which acknowledged Taiwan was part of China, the US is now planning billions in military programmes, weapons and ‘war games’ to back up its promise of war should the territory try to reunite, warns KENNY COYLE
Monday 06th Dec 2021 A new stage of resistance: Burmese communists return to armed struggle The Communist Party of Burma has re-established its People’s Liberation Army. In an exclusive interview with the Morning Star, a party representative tells KENNY COYLE why communists have resumed armed struggle against Myanmar’s junta
Monday 31st May 2021 ‘We want the people of the whole world to stand by the side of the people of Burma’ KENNY COYLE talks to a representative of the Communist Party of Burma about its current priorities in the wake of the coup d’etat earlier this year
Wednesday 26th May 2021 Analysis Myanmar: a battleground of the New Cold War against China China’s complex relationship with Myanmar has confused many on the left, who too often base their binary analyses through the prism of Western media coverage. KENNY COYLE asks a Communist Party of Burma spokesperson about its view
Thursday 20th May 2021 Myanmar and the anti-coup movement All different sectors of society are joining the resistance against the new military regime, a representative of the Communist Party of Burma tells KENNY COYLE