This episode is a collaboration between Radical Reflections and Qiao Collective. David from RR interviews Dave from QC who debunks a few common Western tropes about the Communist Party of China and paints a picture of how China is navigating Western Aggression as a socialist country under the leadership of its Marxist Leninist Party.
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Donald Trump is adding State Department coercion to his “art of the deal” toolkit. After months of feigned concern that the viral TikTok app represents a “trojan horse” for the Communist Party of China to access U.S. consumer data, the Trump Administration issued the Chinese company an ultimatum: sell the app to a U.S. buyer, or be shut down.
The Trump Administration’s forced sale of TikTok is merely the latest in a longstanding agenda to thwart China’s modernization. Under the digital containment doctrine, the world’s supposed enforcer of free trade and fair competition has revealed itself as a belligerent gatekeeper, foreclosing China’s market access wherever and however it can.
Read the full article: https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/articles/tiktok-digital-containment
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An important essay translated by Qiao Collective from The International, a Hong Kong-based Marxist group. Published in August 2019, author Chu Lap-tung questions the pro-democracy camp’s romanticization of political dependency under the imperialist West.
Taking up Puerto Rico as a tragic case study of US imperial parasitism, Chu fundamentally challenges the Pan-Dem presumption that “Western imperialism’s colonial governments [are] not only ‘more free’ but also ‘more democratic.’ ”
Read the full article: https://www.qiaocollective.com/articles/hong-kong-dependency
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n order to challenge the New Cold War on China, the left must abandon false equivalencies and disrupt the U.S. war machine.
U.S.-China tensions aren’t a battle for hegemony, but a struggle between American imperialist dominance and Chinese sovereignty and multilateralism. Leftists must understand that American escalation is part of a centuries-long history of Western imperialist efforts to dominate, shape and control China for its own benefit.
Read the full article: https://readpassage.com/the-fallacy-of-denouncing-both-sides-of-the-u-s-china-conflict/
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