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We're live! @qiaocollective kicking off today's forum on Uniting against Racism and the New Cold War with remarks from chair Sean Kang on the racialization of COVID-19 and its disparate impacts on Black and Indigenous communities in the U.S.
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. @SpiritofHo describing the long history of Black internationalist support and solidarity with the project of building New China, from Claudia Jones to W.E.B. Du Bois:
Livestream: Uniting against Racism and the New Cold War
Livestream: Uniting against Racism and the New Cold War
British-Iraqi rapper and activist @Lowkey0nline describing the long historical view of US/UK imperial ascendance, in stark contrast to China's peaceful rise and historic poverty reduction program
Livestream: Uniting against Racism and the New Cold War
Livestream: Uniting against Racism and the New Cold War
Chinese journalist @Jingjing_Li describing the diversity of China's 56 ethnic groups and the legal framework for ethnic minority protection and regional autonomy, often misunderstood in Western coverage of Chinese ethnic minorities
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Beijing-based journalist @caleholmes2094 contextualizing recent spikes in racism and suspicious towards Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans as setting a dangerous tone of dehumanization to escalate the New Cold War on China
. @HackneyAbbott describes the Trumpian ruse of using anti-China racism to appeal to workers alienated by deindustrialization in the Global North. Paralleled by spiking hate violence against British East Asians amidst the pandemic.
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NBA all-star and activist @D_West30 with a clear message: "We want peace."
West contrasts the belligerence of the U.S. with the pandemic cooperation of China, calling for the U.S. to focus on racism & inequality at home rather than intervention abroad
West contrasts the belligerence of the U.S. with the pandemic cooperation of China, calling for the U.S. to focus on racism & inequality at home rather than intervention abroad
. @RaniaKhalek highlighting the tech front of the U.S. hybrid war on China, led by a Pentagon-approved strategy of fear mongering around Huawei 5G with updated yellow peril tropes in order to defend U.S. technological and military supremacy
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Chris Matlhako (Second Deputy General Secretary, @SACP1921) argues that the South African anti-apartheid movement provides a model for effective anti-racist global mobilization in the context of the New Cold War on China
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Matlhako of @SACP1921 also flagging Chinese-Cuban vaccine cooperation as a precedent for internationalist collaboration that puts people and public health above capitalist conceptions on intellectual property and profit
Sui Hin Lee (China-US Solidarity Network) highlighting the sadism of U.S. officials who hoped COVID would by "China's Chernobyl" and the bipartisan U.S. political agenda seeking "incidents" to exploit in service of a racist New Cold War
. @nickwestes ( @The_Red_Nation) describes the racist settler mentality which saw armed white men demanding states "stay open" as COVID-19 disproportionately impacted Black and Indigenous communities in the U.S., and the Sinophobia that absolved the U.S. system by blaming China
