China will stage a massive military parade on September 3 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War and 26 heads of state or government will attend on the invitation of President Xi Jinping. This was announced by Chinese Assistant … Continue reading World leaders to gather in China to mark victory in anti-fascist war The post World leaders to gather in China to mark victory in ant...| Friends of Socialist China
As the Socialist Republic of Vietnam gears up for massive celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and the September 2nd proclamation of the then Democratic Republic of Vietnam by President Ho Chi Minh, a Chinese Marxist scholar has said that the country exemplifies the successful fusion of socialism and a market economy. … Continue reading Chinese scholar says Vietnamese socialism is a new theoretical model for global socialism and a reference for developing count...| Friends of Socialist China
The following article from Sixth Tone profiles the unexpected global breakthrough of Lanlao (aka SKAI ISYOURGOD), a 27-year-old rapper from Huizhou, Guangdong. Emerging in 2023 with Stacks from All Sides/Karma Codes, a track critiquing inequality, Lanlao first went viral on Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) before crossing over to TikTok, YouTube, and Spotify, where … Continue reading The unlikely global rise of Chinese rapper Lanlao The post The unlikely global rise of Chinese rapper ...| Friends of Socialist China
China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have jointly marked the 80th anniversary of the victory of the war to resist aggression and the world anti-fascist war with a number of events. The Chinese Embassy in the DPRK capital Pyongyang organised a reception on August 20. The Xinhua News Agency reported that among … Continue reading China and DPRK jointly celebrate the 80th anniversary of victory over Japanese imperialism The post China and DPRK jointly celebrate the 80th ...| Friends of Socialist China
Following his visits to India and Afghanistan, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded his regional tour of South Asian countries, with a series of important meetings in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on August 21. Co-chairing the Sixth Round of China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, … Continue reading Friendship with Pakistan is cornerstone of China’s regional diplomacy The post Friendship w...| Friends of Socialist China
Following his successful visit to India, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi flew to Kabul, Afghanistan, for a series of meetings on August 20. Wang Yi participated in the Sixth China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue together with Afghan Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar. Wang … Continue reading China extends a hand of friendship to Afghanistan The post China extends a hand of frie...| Friends of Socialist China
Friends of Socialist China (FOSC) was grateful to be invited to the European premiere of the film Dongji Rescue by the Chinese Embassy. The screening took place in the Odeon Luxe in Leicester Square, a grand venue fit for the opening of such a blockbuster film, attended by some of China’s biggest acting stars. The … Continue reading Dongji Rescue: An inspiring blockbuster of courage, resistance and shared humanity The post Dongji Rescue: An inspiring blockbuster of courage, resistance and...| Friends of Socialist China
In the following contributed article, Stephen Chang of People’s Forum Ltd. (UK) outlines how, far from uprooting the soil in which Japanese militarism and fascism had bred, the United States, as the occupying power following Japan’s surrender 80 years ago, pressed leading war criminals from Emperor Hirohito himself down into the service of its own … Continue reading 80 years since the end of World War II – Japanese militarism has not changed its spots The post 80 years since the end o...| Friends of Socialist China
As we recently noted, relations between China and India have lately been seeing significant improvement. This process has now been qualitatively accelerated with the August 18-20 New Delhi visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. On August 19, Wang Yi met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Modi asked Wang Yi to convey … Continue reading Wang Yi’s visit turns the corner on relations with India The post Wang Yi’s visit turns the corner on relations with India appea...| Friends of Socialist China
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
During the tenth Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, which was held in Anning, in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, on August 15 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also held an important quadrilateral meeting on the sidelines, together with Lao Foreign Minister Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Myanmar Foreign Minister Than Swe, and Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa, which … Continue reading Myanmar peace and reconciliation discussed in four-party talks The post...| 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
On August 15, 2025, the tenth Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Anning, in China’s southwestern Yunnan province. The LMC is a cooperation mechanism, founded a decade ago, that groups China with five of its close southeast Asian neighbours who all share the Mekong River. Following the meeting, Chinese Foreign Wang Yi … Continue reading Mekong Foreign Ministers meet in China’s city of peace and harmony The post Mekong Foreign Ministers meet in China...| 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
We are pleased to publish below an original article by Wu Yanni, a Beijing-based political commentator and contributor to Chinese and international media, arguing that the lessons of World War II remain relevant – and indeed urgent – in today’s geopolitical context. Marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over fascism and the founding of … Continue reading Beyond victory: Rethinking WWII’s legacy in a fractured world The post Beyond victory: Rethinking WWII’s legacy in a fract...| Friends of Socialist China
On August 15, which marked the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in the Second World War, Chinese Ambassador to Britain Zheng Zeguang published an article in the Guardian newspaper entitled, ‘China and Britain shared a mission to fight aggression and fascism. And we can work together today’. Ambassador Zheng wrote: “At the darkest hour of … Continue reading Chinese Ambassador recalls wartime solidarity between Chinese and British people The post Chinese Ambassador recalls wartim...| Friends of Socialist China
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
China has firmly condemned the Israeli government’s genocidal plan to reoccupy Gaza. Speaking at a United Nations Security Council meeting on August 10, Ambassador Fu Cong said that: “The Gaza conflict has persisted for 22 months, leading to over 61,000 civilian deaths and resulting in an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe… Given the urgency at hand, the … Continue reading At the UN Security Council and on the streets of Taipei, Chinese people speak out for Palestine The post At t...| Friends of Socialist China
As Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump prepare to meet in the current US state and former Russian territory of Alaska on August 15 for talks centred on the conflict in Ukraine, they do so against a wider diplomatic background of engagements among the Global South, with BRICS+ in the lead, and … Continue reading Trump makes BRICS great again The post Trump makes BRICS great again appeared first on Friends of Socialist China.| Friends of Socialist China
The Morning Star published a significant editorial on August 5 arguing that historic Soviet and contemporary Chinese economic and social planning can provide valuable lessons and reference material for developing a progressive agenda for Britain. It notes that in 1931 the London publishers Jonathan Cape brought out a 218-page book ‘Moscow has a Plan’, which … Continue reading China’s planning holds lessons for Britain – Morning Star| 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
On 15 July 2025, Friends of Socialist China, in collaboration with the International Manifesto Group and the Communist Party of Britain, hosted a round-table discussion with a delegation from the Academy of Marxism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) at London’s Marx Memorial Library. Introducing the discussion, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos … Continue reading High-level delegation of Chinese Marxists visits London| Friends of Socialist China
A delegation from the Academy of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently visited Ireland as part of a European tour that also took them to Britain and Portugal. In the following article, Gearóid Ó Machail outlines the delegation’s program in Ireland. Gearóid is a member of the National Executive Committee of the … Continue reading Strengthening ties between Irish and Chinese Marxists| Friends of Socialist China
We are pleased to republish the following article, which originally appeared in China Daily, in which Grenville Cross recaps the furore which ensued at the Glastonbury music festival in England after punk rock duo Bob Vylan gave expression to the sentiments shared by the overwhelming majority of the many thousands of people present, who stood as one in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against Israel’s genocidal war of aggression.| Friends of Socialist China
The Communist Party of China (CPC) joined the Liberation Movements Summit that was hosted by the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa in Johannesburg, between July 25-28, under the theme, ‘Defending the Liberation Gains, Advancing Integrated Socio-Economic Development, Strengthening Solidarity for a Better Africa.’ Besides the ANC, the core participants were the five other … Continue reading Communist Party of China joins Liberation Movements Summit in South Africa| Friends of Socialist China
The 64th anniversary of the signing of the China-DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance was celebrated in Pyongyang and Beijing on July 8th and 10th respectively. The Xinhua News Agency reported that, addressing the reception held at his embassy, Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wang Yajun said that … Continue reading China and DPRK mark treaty anniversary| Friends of Socialist China
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) celebrated the 72nd anniversary of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War on July 27. This was the date when an armistice agreement was signed ending the fighting that had raged on the Korean peninsula since June 25, 1950. General Mark Clark, the US commander, admitted that: “In carrying … Continue reading DPRK honours Chinese internationalists on war anniversary| Friends of Socialist China
China has called for peace and an end to the fighting between Thailand and Cambodia, saying that the root cause of this problem lies in the historical legacy left by Western colonisers, which now needs to be calmly faced and properly handled. The call came when Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Secretary-General of ASEAN … Continue reading China calls for peace between Cambodia and Thailand| Friends of Socialist China
As reported previously, between 25 May and 5 June 2025, an international delegation – organised by the China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE) and Friends of Socialist China – visited Shaanxi, Gansu, and Shanghai to witness China’s ongoing socialist development. Comprising activists from organisations including Friends of Socialist China, the Progressive International, Black Alliance … Continue reading Report: Delegation to China, May-June 2025| Friends of Socialist China
South Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile recently visited China to attend the Third China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE).| Friends of Socialist China
In the following article, which was originally published in the Morning Star under the title ‘China’s socialism succeeds where Eastern European failed’, Pawel Wargan, Political Coordinator at the Progressive International, writes movingly about his recent visit to Jiayuguan, a ‘steel city’ in western China’s Gansu province, contrasting this prosperous and civilised socialist community to the … Continue reading Jiayuguan – the socialist future today| Friends of Socialist China
In the following article, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez argues that the US-led New Cold War against China is failing. Despite extensive efforts to contain China’s rise – through tariffs, sanctions, and attempts at economic decoupling – China continues to grow economically and technologically. It now leads globally in multiple areas including renewable … Continue reading From containment to confrontation, from cold to hot: the US drive to war on China| Friends of Socialist China
