By Friends of Socialist China
Published on FofSC, Aug 16, 2022:
Friends of Socialist China’s next webinar takes place on Saturday 24 September 2022, 11am (US Eastern) / 8am (US Pacific) / 4pm (Britain) / 11pm (China). The event will address the rising aggression of the US and its allies in the Pacific region. We will discuss the Biden administration’s increased support for Taiwanese separatism; Western power projection in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits; the hysteria surrounding China’s security agreement with the Solomon Islands; the AUKUS nuclear pact; developments in Korea and Japan; and more.
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Confirmed speakers
- Liu Xin (Host of the opinion show The Point with Liu Xin, CGTN)
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States)
- Julie Tang (Organizer with Pivot to Peace and the Comfort Women Justice Coalition)
- Ken Hammond (Organizer with Pivot to Peace; author of From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History)
- Qiao Collective (Grassroots media collective of diaspora Chinese writers, artists, and researchers)
- Ju-Hyun Park (Organizer and writer with the Nodutdol collective)
- KJ Noh (Peace activist and expert on the geopolitics of Asia)
- Zhong Xiangyu (Political commentator and Chinese hip-hop artist)
- Keith Bennett (Co-editor of Friends of Socialist China)
- Moderator: Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba / International Manifesto Group)
Topics include
- AUKUS and the attempts to construct an Asian NATO
- The rightward shift in Japan and South Korea
- The West’s incitement of Taiwanese secessionism
- The role of modern colonialism in the project of containing China (Okinawa, Hawai’i, Guam)
- Attempts at a new Monroe Doctrine in the Pacific
- Western power projection in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits
- China encirclement – from 1949 to the present day
- Building unity between the peoples of the Pacific and the oppressed peoples of the United States
Co-sponsors
- ANSWER Coalition
- Geopolitical Economy Research Group
- Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War
- Hampton Institute
- International Action Center
- International Manifesto Group
- Morning Star
- Multipolarista
- New Cold War
- Nodutdol
- Peace, Land, and Bread
- Pivot to Peace
- Popular Resistance
- Qiao Collective
- The Canada Files (media sponsor)
Please register and spread the word!
Peace, Land, and Bread is honored to be co-sponsoring this very important event—organized by our friends and comrades over at @socialist_china, supported by @answercoalition, @HamiltonHcsw, @Multipolarista, and others.
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WEBINAR:
China encirclement and the imperialist build-up in the Pacific📆 Saturday 24 September
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