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5 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This year China will eradicate absolute poverty.

Pres Xi said, “Communists are pragmatic. We want people to get benefits and improve their lives."

Read an intimate & beautiful first-hand account of China's poverty alleviation to serve its people: qiaocollective.com/en/articles/th…
Qiao translated this first-hand account of poverty alleviation in Yuangudui—the poorest village in the poorest province in China. Through workers collectives, housing, & education gains, Yuangudui reflects China's socialist fight against poverty.
qiaocollective.com/en/articles/th…
As members of Qiao, this piece has deeply moved us and triggered emotional recollections on how our own families have benefitted tremendously from China's socialist push to improve its people's lives. We hope the piece moves you as much as it moved us.
qiaocollective.com/en/articles/th…
Through the people's efforts and the CPC's coordination, Yuangudui has gone from a symbol of China's poverty—where "life is bitter"—to an emblem of China's goal of ending poverty and achieving a "moderately prosperous society."

qiaocollective.com/en/articles/th…

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As anti-imperialists, we cannot be purely reactive to state and mainstream media propaganda against "enemy" nations like China or DPRK.

Rather than chasing myth after myth like whack-a-mole, we need a broad analysis of disinformation to recognize war propaganda when we see it.
Propaganda does not spring out of nowhere. It is part of a machine of state funding, the weapons industry, corporate media, and foreign policy think tanks.

Understanding how this disinformation machine works is foundational to recognizing recurring myths and false narratives.
For 70 years we have seen the same narratives deployed against China, the Soviet Union, DPRK, Iran, etc. The U.S.—the world hegemon—has the gall to label all these nations imperialist, expansionist, and aggressive.

Anti-imperialists ignore the pattern at their own risk.
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#Debates2020 China Watch — unpacking bipartisan support for an imperialist New Cold War on China

#1 : Trump hits Biden for criticizing his ban on flights from China in January, says "China is where the infection was coming from"
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Biden’s favored defense secretary, Michèle Flournoy, is a China hawk with ties to the weapons industry whose main critique of Trump's foreign policy is that it failed to deliver on the military “Pivot to Asia”

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In a high-profile Foreign Affairs article, Flourney laid out what would be her policy priorities in office: to ensure "peace" in Asia by establishing unchallenged U.S. military supremacy, expanding war games in the Indo-Pacific, and continuing the "containment" of China
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Ten years after China launched its free lunch campaign:

40 million students—primarily children of farmers and migrant workers, have been served by the program—improving rural childhood nutrition and ensuring a "bottom line of social equality"

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The Chinese government allotted more than 21 billion USD to ensure a 4 yuan daily lunch subsidy for students in need.

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It's telling that "principled" anti-imperialists who use "China is capitalist" to justify sitting on the sidelines as the US pushes war on China never mention the harms of US anti-China doctrine on Ryukyu, Guam, Hawai'i and others subjugated as staging grounds for war on China.
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This plan demands Asia-Pacific fealty to U.S. regional hegemony. There is no "anti-imperialist" stance which denies this.
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"US imperialism is guilty of aggression. The fundamental field of imperialist exploitation comprises the three underdeveloped continents: America, Asia, Africa."
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