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As Israel's genocidal war on Gaza enters its sixth month, Qiao Collective presents an urgent intervention from Charles Xu on the Palestinian resistance and the place of China, its people, and their revolutionary legacy in the world solidarity movement.
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Hospitals in France have confirmed that France had COVID-19 outbreaks in November, a month before China. China was the first to detect COVID-19 but the WHO has called on other nations to investigate cases that likely began earlier than China's discovery.
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This is how the Washington Post today describes the Hong Kong vs. Minneapolis protests:
The HK protestors bravely "defy a police crackdown to resist China" while the George Floyd protestors "vandalize" & are "looters who ransacked a Target" while ignoring "peaceful resolutions."
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HK protesters have repeatedly allied with the Trumps, Pompeos, Rubios, and Pelosis of the world—the architects & enforcers of the US regime of anti-Black death. These sweeping comparisons based on superficial visual references are an insult to the struggle for Black liberation.
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Sinophobia is so normalized in the US that Biden can really say "evil China is making solar energy and electric cars too affordable" and a whole bunch of people will go along with it.
The US will literally destroy the planet in order to safeguard its hegemony.
I just imposed a series of tariffs on goods made in China:
25% on steel and aluminum,
50% on semiconductors,
100% on EVs,
And 50% on solar panels.
China is determined to dominate these industries.
I'm determined to ensure America leads the world in them.
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European researchers found that France's COVID-19 strains did not originate from China and that the virus had been circulating in France long before China's cases. They also found that China's strains are genetically younger than the strains in the US.
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Morales on the U.S. elections: "It does not matter who wins…The North American people vote, but do not rule. Transnational corporations rule."
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If you're freaking out about a balloon, wait till you hear about the military bases the US has encircled China with!
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Just 23 out of 167 countries attained “full democracy” classification in
@TheEIU
's latest Democracy Index
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In 1967, British colonial police in Hong Kong brutally suppressed Chinese protests, led by left-wing groups with ties to the CPC. At least 22 people were killed by the police.
Two years later, Queen Elizabeth granted the police force the "Royal" title for their conduct.
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Correction: China calls for the US to reduce its nuclear stockpile to the Chinese level (a 95% reduction) as a prerequisite to nuclear arms control talks.
The media framing of Chinese aggression is a lie. The story is the US rejects peace in favor of continued nuclear hegemony.
JUST IN: China turns down nuclear arms control talks with US and Russia
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BBC: We stand with the Chinese people in their pursuit of freedom of expression
Also BBC: wait not like that
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"This so-called two-party system is nothing but a device for maintaining the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie; it can never guarantee freedoms to the working people."
—Mao Zedong, 1957
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On this day in 1893, American settlers, with the backing of U.S. marines, illegally overthrew the sovereign Hawaiian Kingdom.
Motivated by sugar plantation interests and a desire to turn Hawaiʻi into a U.S. naval outpost, the U.S. colonial occupation continues to this day.
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White people in Hong Kong are not "ethnic minorities", that's not how colonialism works
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If reports that COVID-19 has been infecting people across the world for a while undetected are true, it means China was the first to detect the virus, alert the world, sequence it, & create a pandemic model for other nations to follow, which means China has saved countless lives.
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What is Sinophobia if not Cold War anticommunism persevering
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Its telling how the "authoritarian" nations including Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, & China have all declared support for the Black Lives Matter protests while govts of the "free world" aka Western nations & their allies like Canada, UK, France, Australia, Japan, South Korea are silent.
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Due to China's law banning foreign funding of the Hong Kong protests, the US has openly admitted to funding the protests and has been forced to freeze $2 million in planned payouts to HK protest groups and shut down the shell group that funneled the money.
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Spain has found COVID19 in water from March 2019, nine months before it was found in China.
Ironically because China was the first & most competent to discover it while other nations failed, China saved millions of lives but is now blamed as the origin.
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The Snowden leaks made explicit that Facebook, Google, Amazon regularly supply the NSA, FBI, and CIA with user data.
Chinese apps are probably the most secure for US citizens concerned with being targeted by their own repressive state.
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Locals gather at the American Institute in Taiwan in Taipei to protest Nancy Pelosi's reckless visit
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Countries condemning China's policies in Hong Kong vs. countries refusing to combat Nazism.
Coincidence or just old-fashioned imperialist collaboration?
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"Is it not violent for a child to go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world? I think that is violent. But that type of violence is so institutionalized that it becomes a part of our way of life. Not only do we accept poverty, we even find it normal."
- Kwame Ture
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We are truly touched by the outpouring of support. Thanks to each of you, Qiao Collective's Twitter has been restored. This is a critical time in the fight against racism, imperialism, & capitalism, and we are grateful to be able continue to contribute our voice to this struggle.
Pleased to see that over 1,000 people have now signed the open letter calling on
@TwitterSupport
to reinstate the
@qiaocollective
account. Let's keep the pressure up!
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The fact that China passing a simple law that bans the U.S. from funding groups in Hong Kong with the goal of overthrowing the CPC has caused every "democracy" group in HK to shut down due to lack of support tells you everything you need to know about the HK "democracy movement."
This morning we received and accepted the departure of
@joshuawongcf
,
@nathanlawkc
,
@jeffreychngo
and
@chowtingagnes
. After much internal deliberation, we have decided to disband and cease all operation as a group given the circumstances.
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1968 Twitter would be calling Ho Chi Minh a Nazi and labeling anyone who talks about the My Lai massacre a "Soviet asset"
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The fact that China passing a simple law that bans the U.S. from funding groups in Hong Kong with the goal of overthrowing the CPC has caused every "democracy" group in HK to shut down tells you everything you need to know about the actual driving forces behind this "movement."
This morning we received and accepted the departure of
@joshuawongcf
,
@nathanlawkc
,
@jeffreychngo
and
@chowtingagnes
. After much internal deliberation, we have decided to disband and cease all operation as a group given the circumstances.
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Just a reminder for those equating the Bolivia protest with Hong Kong—Bolivia's protest have mass working class support & are *against* US intervention. In contrast, the HK protests are *pro-US* & have no support from unions or the working class. The differences cant be starker.
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Newsweek's claim that 600 Chinese community groups in the U.S. are "arms of the CCP" is based entirely on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute—which is literally funded by the U.S. State Dept & Raytheon.
This is full-blown McCarthyist manufacturing consent for war on China.
As part of a four-month investigation, Newsweek has identified 600 community groups in the U.S. with links to the Chinese Communist Party—part of a large campaign by Beijing to sow unrest ahead of the U.S. election.
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Russia is about to invade the Ukraine, just like China is about to invade Taiwan, just like North Korea is about to launch a nuclear strike and Iraq was about to develop WMDs...
The relentless narrative of imminent threat from "enemy" states is just a way to fund endless US war.
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China is not a "socialist utopia." China is a society of 1.4 billion people rife with contradictions: bourgeois ideology, unequal development, relative poverty all persist and must be fought.
But let's be clear: none of these issues can be resolved via imperialist aggression.
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Just another reminder that NATO escalation is the threat to world peace
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A Black American woman in Hong Kong has been en mass harassed by HK people into cancelling a Black Lives Matter protest she'd planned in HK. They accused her of being "backed by the CCP," called her derogatory terms, & claimed BLM distracted from "HK Lives Matter." Her statement:
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"Don't you want to abolish state power?"
Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country.
—Mao Zedong, 1949 [1/2]
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Framings like "what should the US left do about China" are based on an interventionist premise: that China is a "problem" for the West to solve, that its path will be dictated by outside forces.
When you proceed from State Department questions, you get State Department answers.
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Biden’s Secretary of State Blinken declares that:
▪️ Israel is democratic
▪️ Iran is a "sponsor of state terrorism"
▪️ the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was necessary
Imperialism is bipartisan. The Biden admin will be just as violent imperialists as the Trump admin was.
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Nothing like a little racism and Cold War hysteria to bring the American people together
Being tough on China is what unifies a polarized U.S., former trade negotiator says
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14 of 15 members of the UN Security Council—including China and Russia—support a UNSC statement calling for a ceasefire amidst Israel's bombardment of Gaza. Only the US is blocking the statement.
Which country is the threat to international law again?
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Just a reminder that Qiao Collective is communist, Marxist-Leninist, & anti-imperialist. We do not rebrand & repeat US propaganda. We do not attack socialist and anti-imperialist countries. Most importantly, we support these countries and their fight against Western imperialism.
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Slurs like “Chinazi” & “Xitler” are part of an anticommunist tendency of WWII revisionism.
The West likes to portray itself as the great Nazi-slayers. In reality, the Soviets played the deciding role in the European front; Hitler took inspiration from US genocide and Jim Crow.
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Gordon Chang is on Fox alleging that the Houston Chinese consulate provided "logistical and financial support" to BLM protests and the CPC is "stoking racial tensions."
Can't believe China reverse-engineered 400 years of American slavery, apartheid, and mass incarceration.
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When China locked down in January and February, the West called it a human rights violation.
Now it's November, China has all but defeated COVID-19, and 250,000 Americans are dead. Yet no Western pundit or politician discusses these human rights violations under capitalism.
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If you are for
#StopAsianHate
are you also for:
▪️ U.S. out of Asia
▪️ ending Cold War Sinophobia
▪️ debunking propaganda on China & DPRK
▪️ ending occupation of Korea & Okinawa
If not, maybe you care more about appearing anti-racist than actual liberation for Asian people
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The racism faced by Chinese athletes at the Olympics is a reminder: Sinophobia and racism are inseparable. Forget “supporting the Chinese people but not the Chinese state”—the smearing of Chinese athletes as cheaters is just an extension of the discourse wielded against the PRC.
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The Soviet Union. The DPRK. China. Vietnam. Cuba. Iraq. Iran. Afghanistan. Iraq again. Russia. China again.
70 years of the military-industrial complex cycling through official enemies to justify permanent war. At a crossroads of human history, will you fall for it again?
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The American flag is not some abstract symbol of democracy, it's an assertion of class solidarity with Western capitalists, imperial alignment with the U.S. empire, and a call for neocolonialism to benefit local elite compradors.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
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Joshua Wong's parents just sold a HK$9.88 million flat? I wonder if that tells us anything about the class character of the HK "democracy" protests...
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The "Beijing Declaration” is a historic statement of Palestinian unity agreed to by 14 Palestinian factions who met in Beijing today.
The document promises to “unify national efforts” to resist Zionist aggression and to seek the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
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Just a casual call for regime change in the most populous nation. Imagine if China talked about the government of any other country like this.
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Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni shrine, a monument to Imperial Japanese war criminals, in 2013.
Abe made repeated visits and tributes to the shrine, despite protests from China and Korea that the site glorifies Japanese war atrocities.
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Countries sponsoring or in support of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379, declaring Zionism a form of racism, 1975.
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Today marks 83 years since the Nanjing Massacre, when Japanese troops unleashed wanton murder and rape of Chinese civilians, leaving 300,000 dead.
Never forget these crimes of war as we fight for a world free from imperial domination.
[Li Zijian, "The Nanjing Massacre"]
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"I don't hate the Chinese people, I just hate the Chinese Communist Party, it's 90 million members, and the 90% of Chinese people who are satisfied with their government"
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"A Forecast of the Partition of China," first published in Harper's Weekly, 1900
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This racist targeting of Asians is a direct result of the West's imperialist agenda on China.
End the Cold War mentality. End the racist dehumanization.
My friend was called "corona virus" and "China noodle" before pushed into water yesterday evening.
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New York Times reporting on the WHO team to Wuhan vs. actual doctors on the WHO delegation
Spot the difference?
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What does the US have to gain from Pelosi's visit to Taiwan?
Any response China takes will be construed as an unprovoked escalation, justifying increased weapons sales to Taiwan, US naval exercises through the Taiwan strait, and increased US military presence in the region.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is visiting Taiwan, a move that is likely to increase already heightened tensions between the U.S. and China.
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Western socialists must confront their tendency to fetishize revolutions while maligning the flourishing, imperfect societies they created. Contemporary China, like its revolution, is rife with contradictions. That’s the reality of building socialism in a capitalist world system.
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Mao on Palestine as the fulcrum of pan-Asian liberation:
“Imperialism is afraid of China and of the Arabs. Israel and Formosa are bases of imperialism in Asia. You are the front gate of the great continent, and we are the rear. They created Israel for you, and Formosa for us."
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Everything the West accuses China of doing, the West is doing ten times over.
China has ambitions for military dominance? The U.S. has 800 military bases across the world.
China engages in "debt-trap" diplomacy? IMF structural adjustment have ravaged the world for decades.
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Western journalists: I don't understand why Chinese people refuse to talk to me
Also Western journalists: look at these freaky brainwashed Orientals who like their government
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What's shocking is that the U.S. smeared Chinese pandemic efforts—mandatory quarantines, universal mask compliance, temperature checks, and free universal treatment—as "authoritarian" while COVID-19 spread through the U.S. with no state intervention.
Shocking images show packed Wuhan pool party in former coronavirus ground zero
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The mayor of Belleville, New Jersey tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies and believes he had COVID-19 in November 2019 in the US, a month before cases in China were discovered. He had severe COVID-19 symptoms back in November & had not traveled abroad.
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Western history has erased the fact that the Red Armies of China and the Soviet Union sacrificed the most to defeat German and Japanese fascism.
The same Western powers that rehabilitated fascists to serve their postwar hegemony paint themselves as saviors of the "free world"
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Who on earth would fund such shoddy, warmongering resea-....oh.
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"Pompeo, we Xinjiang people hate you."
These are the words of a shopkeeper in rejecting Pompeo's allegations of "forced labor" in Xinjiang. His accusations have sparked anger among the people in Xinjiang, who have rejected him and the imperialist interests he stands for.
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Even if China doubles its nuclear arms, it would still just be 10 percent of the United States' nuclear stockpile which is by farthe largest in the world.
These false accusations are just an excuse to justify the US increasing its nuclear arms & militarily aggressing onto China.
As Communist China moves to at least double the size of its nuclear stockpile, modernizing our nuclear force and maintaining readiness is essential to a free and open Indo-Pacific.
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China has made two monumental announcements:
▪︎China will universally share its vaccine with the world as a "global public good"
▪︎China will donate $2 billion to the WHO—a third of the WHOs $6 bn budget—to aid developing countries stranded by the US' $500 milion withdrawal.
China will make its coronavirus vaccine a global public good once one is available, President Xi Jinping tells the WHO's governing body
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Capitalism: global vaccine apartheid because poor countries can't afford the vaccine
Also capitalism: evil China giant is distributing the vaccine to the Global South as a global public good
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The West: Chinese officials and pundits need to learn their place and keep their mouths shut
Chen Weihua:
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Yet another reminder that propagandized narratives of Chinese "colonialism" in Africa are designed to distract from the reality: ongoing, unabashed Western colonialism on the continent
French billionaire Vincent Bolloré of
@Bollore_BTL
now controls Ghana's biggest port, Tema, thanks to a deal that's tilted against the West African country's interests, an investigation by
@Africa_Conf
. Tema is the 16th West African port Bolloré controls
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It's never been clearer that bourgeois notions of "free speech" really just mean freedom for speech that serves the interests of capitalism and imperialism and silencing those that challenge them
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This is in China. Not Japan. In fact, Japan has mishandled COVID-19, delaying lockdowns & letting it spread.
Unsurprisingly, Western media has largely stayed silent on Japan's poor response & instead attacked China's success, because unlike China, Japan is a US ally & colluder.
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Just a reminder that the US is a not a democracy. The false belief that the US is a "democracy" and countries like China are "authoritarian" is exactly what keeps the US proletariat from looking towards the Global South for far more humane, just political systems that exist.
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When China sequenced the coronavirus in record time, they made that IP free & public to help other nations, bc unlike the US, China's health & science industries are state-owned so they serve the public rather than profit. China vs the US response shows how socialism saves lives.
Health secretary Alex Azar won’t promise that a coronavirus vaccine would be affordable
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It's Orientalism, racism, and chauvinism to project onto China the U.S. framework of race and empire onto China.
China is a real place with millenia of indigenous cultural, political, and ethnic dynamics. You're not an expert on China just because you understand the U.S.
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The man is literally admitting that "democracy" is a political system under the ultimate authority of corporations
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Six countries which famously haven't overseen the worst colonial atrocities in modern Asian history
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Stop romanticizing socialist poverty and demonizing socialist development.
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To clarify: Qiao is not simply "pro-China," we are anti-imperialist, socialist, internationalist.
We support China's path under CPC not out of national chauvinism or crude geopolitics, but because CPC is part of a global trend towards multilateralism and real post-colonialism.
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U.S. CO2 emissions per capita is more than double that of China.
U.S. military is the world's largest polluter.
U.S. dumped 700k tons of plastic waste per yer in China until China refused to take any more.
This is green imperialism.
Too much of the Chinese Communist Party’s economy is built on willful disregard for air, land, and water quality. The Chinese people– and the world– deserve better.
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Just a reminder—white people in China and Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, etc are *not* an oppressed ethnic minority. They are imperialists who flock to China to advance imperialist extraction & propaganda while crafting a fantasy of themselves as oppressed freedom fighters.
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China: We fought a people's war to eradicate absolute poverty and raise the standard of living of 1.4 billion people
Western media: We found one man who says that's bad, actually
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"Beijing is encroaching on Hong Kong's legal system, we can't allow this foreign manipulation of the rule of law"
The Hong Kong judiciary:
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Whether you agree that China is socialist, we should be able to agree:
▪️the anti-China Pivot to Asia is imperialist aggression
▪️US militarization of the Asia-Pacific only benefits Empire
▪️a counterweight to US power is a net good for those struggling under US unilateralism
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Xi Jinping affirms China's rooting in Marxist political economy, refuses to copy the Western capitalist model, in elaborate ruse to trick 1st world keyboard socialists into supporting the CPC
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Zoom is not an arm of the Chinese government. Its a private company run by a naturalized Chinese American who immigrated to the US over 20 years ago.
You know which companies *have* breached security & shared private data with the US government? Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
"People think we can do Congress by
@zoom_us
. Zoom is a Chinese entity."
-
@SpeakerPelosi
to
@chrislhayes
on the question of remote voting, citing security concerns.
(Zoom, an American company, has been hit for routing calls through China.)
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Xiang Jingyu (向警予), Chinese revolutionary and feminist martyr, was born on this day in 1895.
She fought bravely for national liberation, socialism, and women’s liberation until her execution by the Nationalist government in 1928.
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A short thread on China-Bolivia relations as we celebrate the watershed victory of MAS and the return of people's democracy to Bolivia:
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The only thing that failed was your attempted coup 🇧🇴
Bolivia’s former president, Evo Morales, returned to the country on Monday, a year after his failed attempt to keep power tore the nation apart and sent him into exile.
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Why obscure BPP's Black, communist, revolutionary nationalist platform with the vague language of "antiracism" and "anticapitalism"?
The Panthers didn't mince words and neither should we.
The Black Panther Party was founded on this day in 1966. Its antiracist, anticapitalist vision remains just as relevant in 2020.
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