The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday January 27th, 2022 – International Holocaust Remembrance Dayay
World Re-binarized: A Brief history of the Sino-American collision course by Dr. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Americans performed three very different policies on the People’s Republic: From a total negation (and the Mao-time mutual annihilation assurances), to Nixon’s sudden cohabitation. Finally, a Copernican-turn: the US spotted no real ideological differences between them and the post-Deng China. This signalled a ‘new opening’: West imagined China’s coastal areas as its own industrial suburbia. Soon after, both countries easily agreed on interdependence (in this marriage of convenience): Americans pleased their corporate (machine and tech) sector and unrestrained its greed, while Chinese in return offered a cheap labour, no environmental considerations and submissiveness in imitation. Both spiced it by nearly religious approach to trade.
However, for each of the two this was far more than economy, it was a policy – Washington read it as interdependence for transformative containment and Beijing sow it as interdependence for a (global) penetration. In the meantime, Chinese acquired more sophisticated technology, and the American Big tech sophisticated itself in digital authoritarianism – ‘technological monoculture’ met the political one.
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Columns #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Do we descend?
Do we depart
For the deep?”
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Ephemera #038 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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