In the opinion piece below, originally published in Al Jazeera, Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan argue that Western hostility towards China is not driven by serious concerns over China’s putative threat to the “international rules-based order” but rather by its very real challenge to the imperial economic order. Over the past two decades, US policy … Continue reading The real reason the West is warmongering against China The post The real reason the West is warmongering against China a...| Friends of Socialist China
In the article below, written for the Morning Star, Carlos Martinez discusses Britain’s intensifying Sinophobia, describing it as a new McCarthyism aimed at preparing public opinion for confrontation with China. He argues that recent media stories – about Chinese students being pressured to spy on their classmates, Hong Kong separatists facing legal action, and opposition … Continue reading Britain is sinking into ‘yellow peril’ hysteria on China The post Britain is sinking into ‘...| Friends of Socialist China
In the following article, which was originally published on Consortium News, Mick Hall analyses how the recent visit to New Zealand by Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s far-right Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he announced a significant upgrade in the bureau’s local presence, will further enmesh the twin island South Pacific nation … Continue reading FBI upgrade enmeshes New Zealand in anti-China war plans| Friends of Socialist China
On March 4, 2018, Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former Russian intelligence officer turned British defector was allegedly poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, along with his 33-year-old daughter Yulia. The two were admitted to a hospital after they were allegedly found unconscious on a public bench in the center of Salisbury by the| CovertAction Magazine
This episode of The China Report, hosted by KJ Noh in collaboration with Pivot to Peace, focuses on the recent arrest of two Chinese researchers from the University of Michigan on US federal charges of ‘agroterrorism’. The scientists, Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han, are accused of smuggling biological materials into the country – fusarium graminearum, … Continue reading Academic witch hunt: US arrests Chinese scientists in dangerous escalation The post Academic witch hunt: US arrests ...| Friends of Socialist China
In the following Morning Star article, Francisco Domínguez (Secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and member of Friends of Socialist China’s Britain committee) situates Donald Trump’s escalating tariff war against Latin America within a broader US imperial strategy to block the emergence of a multipolar world — particularly one shaped by China’s growing influence. While … Continue reading Trump’s tariffs against Latin America: part of a global battle The post Trump’s t...| Friends of Socialist China
The following is an extensive interview with the French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon that was conducted by Tariq Ali, the veteran writer and activist, and that was originally published on Sidecar, the blog published by New Left Review. In their wide-ranging discussion Mélenchon makes a number of important comments about China – to which he … Continue reading Jean-Luc Mélenchon discusses China with Tariq Ali| Friends of Socialist China