While the US left regards itself as the vanguard of leftist politics globally, the Chinese left has watched in horror at the fundamentally right-wing politics of the US left. Read our translation of a Chinese leftist on US liberalism & the fake left. qiaocollective.com/en/articles/am…
"If there is a lesson that China must draw from the U.S., it must be that we must remember to remain humble.
We must never emulate the Americans in their blindness, arrogance and self-importance, lack of introspection, or their coarse confidence."
"When Americans criticize they focus the problem onto an individual politician. It is not the system at fault, because the system is perfect. When Chinese people criticize, they focus criticisms on the system and how the system produced the problem." qiaocollective.com/en/articles/am…
Newsweek's claim that 600 Chinese community groups in the U.S. are "arms of the CCP" is based entirely on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute—which is literally funded by the U.S. State Dept & Raytheon.
This is full-blown McCarthyist manufacturing consent for war on China.
@Newsweek's front-page is claiming that 600 Chinese community groups in the US are "arms of the CCP" with a sinister image of Xi.
This incites violence on Chinese people & imperialism on China, while the US is sending warships & bomber planes everyday into China to incite war.
Newsweek bases its entire claim that China is interfering in the elections on the Director of National Intelligence, National Counterintelligence & Security Center, and ASPI—all entities funded by the US State Dept & military.
A short thread on China-Bolivia relations as we celebrate the watershed victory of MAS and the return of people's democracy to Bolivia:
Chinese investment played a crucial role in MAS's state-led agenda of national development and independence from international financial institutions such as the IMF.
Between 2000 and 2014, bilateral trade between the two nations exploded from $75.3 million to $2.25 billion.
MAS leaders often contrast Chinese investment from Bolivia's past subjugation under IMF austerity.
As Evo Morales put it after meetings with Xi Jinping in 2018, "China's support and aid to Bolivia's economic and social development never attaches any political conditions."
160 years ago on Oct 18, 1860, English and French soldiers destroyed 圆明园 (the Old Summer Palace). The act capped the Second Opium War and was designed to humiliate the Qing.
The war was fought by Western forces to violate China's sovereignty for the profit of imperialists.
The Second Opium War was fought by British, French, and US troops to force China to end restrictions on opium imports, respect extraterritorial rights in the foreign concession zones, and "open" China's market to Western corporations.
Rates of opium sale and addiction exploded.
Opium dependency remained a bitter symbol of feudalism and imperialism for many decades.
After the communist revolution, China under Mao Zedong led system reforms to rehabilitate 10 million opium addicts, replace poppy growers with new crops, and crack down on drug traders.
China joined 25 other countries at the UN this week in demanding an end to U.S. "unilateral coercive measures," condemning economic sanctions as a violation of international law.