Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by the Friends of Socialist China U.S. Committee in response to the Trump administration’s announcement of new tariffs on Chinese imports.

The Trump administration’s decision to slap additional tariffs on the People’s Republic of China is something that should be condemned by every person who cares about peace and progress. These moves are making the world a more dangerous place and are part of a larger anti-China policy being pursued by the Trump administration – a policy begun under the Obama administration and deepened during the Biden administration.

These tariffs are in effect a tax on working people here in the United States and will result in rising prices for our necessities and wants. They will have no impact whatsoever on the lifestyles of the billionaires. Indeed, the money raised from increased prices will be used to fund the Trump regime’s tax cuts for the super-rich. Furthermore, these tariffs will harm the U.S. economy more than China’s. People’s China has a more diversified economy, more trading partners, and a greater share of world trade.

To quote Mao Zedong, “Lifting a rock only to drop it on one’s own feet is a Chinese folk saying to describe the behavior of certain fools.” This certainly applies to Trump and his wealthy backers.

The tariffs against China exist in a larger context. The U.S. empire is in a state of stagnation and decline, while People’s China is developing at an incredible speed. Wall Street and the Pentagon are working to “contain” and encircle China. They are increasing the spending for war preparations, attempting to draw countries in the region into hostile alliances aimed at China, and encouraging separatist forces in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang. The tariffs supplement the hundreds of U.S. sanctions against China in textiles, solar energy, computers and more.

For the past decade, U.S. policy makers have talked about “decoupling” the U.S. economy from that of China. Washington DC’s trade war is a part of that process, and it cannot be separated from preparations for other kinds of war in the Pacific, including those fought by military means.

Socialist China has made incredible achievements. China has waged a real war o poverty, while the U.S. government is waging a war on working people. China is by far the world leader in renewable energy production, electric transport, biodiversity protection and afforestation. China takes public health seriously. That’s why its life expectancy consistently goes up. Here in the U.S., we have measles outbreaks, and vaccine “skeptics” running the show. China wants peace. No serious person can say that about the U.S. today.

We demand that the tariffs directed at China be rolled back. We oppose the Trump administration’s anti-China policy, including any and all preparations for war. And we stand in solidarity with socialist China as it heads into a bright future.

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Together Canada, China and Mexico are about 40% of the United States’ total trade, so that this is the biggest increase in tariffs since the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of 1930. Those tariffs and other countries’ responses made the worldwide economic recession even worse and were a factor in turning a bad recession into a depression. Economic studies show that Trump’s tariffs could push Canada and Mexico into recessions, while economic growth and employment would slow, and prices rise in the United States.

The immediate impact will be higher prices here in the United States. Some of it is predictable, as imported maple syrup from Canada and imported tequila from Mexico go up in price because of these taxes on imports. Other fruits and vegetables like avocados will also become more expensive, raising grocery prices even more.

Gas prices could go up, not only in the Midwest and Gulf Coast, where U.S. gasoline refineries rely on imported oil, but also in places like California that uses imported Canadian oil. Car production will be hit too, as many cars sold in the United States, including U.S. brands such as Ford and GM are either produced in Canada or Mexico and/or use parts made in our two neighboring countries.

The biggest burden of Trump’s tariffs, estimated to be about $830 per household, would be on lower income households.Lower income folks would lose about four times as much of their purchasing power as those in the highest income households. This fall in purchasing power would lower demand for goods and services and slow economic growth and job creation.

But these estimates only count the direct cost of tariffs. There are two types of indirect costs. First of all, U.S. producers could maximize their profits in the short run by raising their prices.This is what happened when Trump slapped 25% tariffs on steel in his first term – U.S. steel producers raised their prices by 22%, padding their bottom line, but causing even bigger overall price increases.

The second type of cost to Americans is retaliation by other countries. The prime minister of Canada has ordered 25% tariffs on more than a $100 billion of imports from the United States in retaliation. Mexico’s president ordered her economy minister to prepare both tariff and non-tariff responses to Trump’s tariffs. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said that China will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization or WTO and take “countermeasures” against the United States.

China is actually better positioned than either Canada or Mexico because it has been able to diversify its trade away from the United States since Trump’s first term in office. Both Canada and Mexico send 70% or more of their exports to the United States. However, China’s biggest export market is now ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar, Brunei and Indonesia), with the European Union not far behind the United States.

While Trump has threatened to increase tariffs if any of the countries retaliate, an escalating trade war could push Canada and/or China to “go nuclear” by putting export taxes or restrictions on key exports such as oil from Canada or rare earth metals from China. In the long run, both Canada and/or Mexico could follow China’s path and try to reorient their trade to Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Trump’s tariffs are moving the United States to “decouple” its economy from the rest of the world. This response to the relative decline in U.S. economic power, from 40% of world GDP afterWorld War II to only around 15% today (as measured by “purchasing power parity,” which compares the actual prices of goods and services). However, these tariffs, along with Trump’s escalating deportations, and anti-education and anti-health moves, will just accelerate the rate of U.S. decline.

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On January 20, Trump stood in the Capitol rotunda promising a “golden age” and vowed to stem the decline of the U.S. empire, which in fact is something he will not and cannot do. The opposite is the case. The economic policies he promotes, such as continued decoupling the U.S. economy from that of People’s China and erecting a wall of tariffs, will accelerate the decline of the United States. Increased military spending for the Pentagon or the deployment of more military forces into the Pacific will not change this.

Over the long run, a decrease in economic power will be followed by a decline of political power. The role of the U.S. in the world economy is shrinking. In 1960, the U.S. had about 40% of the world GDP. Today it is about half that, depending on how you measure.

This U.S. has is abandoning projects that put it at the center of the international economy, such as the World Trade Organization. The 2017 withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, carried out by Donald Trump days after his first inauguration eight years ago, is another symptom of deterioration. The relative weakness of the U.S. economy is being accompanied by a fragmentation of the world economy.

Looking at statistics from the International Monetary Fund to compare the size of the respective economies, People’s China has surpassed that of the U.S. The metric of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which allows one to compare which commodities and services can be purchased with a given currency, indicates that in 2024 China had about 19% of the world GDP and the U.S. had about 14% of the world GDP. One could also look at a host of industries, from auto and to ship building to steel and green technologies, and see that the U.S. is being left behind.

Two issues to consider

We are looking at U.S. policy and plans in the Pacific in general. Two things need to be considered as we try to get a handle on what is coming next.

First, there is a fair amount of overlap on the China policy pursued by Democratic and Republican politicians. We can have some confidence that Trump will be unmatched when it comes to pronouncements infused with chauvinism and xenophobia, such as he did before, calling COVID the “China virus.” While he may well adopt a more extreme anti-China position than the Biden administration, there is a certain continuity in U.S. policy from administration to administration.

For example, when Defense Secretary Austin was testifying on the 2024 defense appropriation bill at the Senate Armed Services Committee, he stated, “This is a strategy-driven budget – and one driven by the seriousness of our strategic competition with the People's Republic of China.”

The second issue is Taiwan Province, the great unsolved issue of the Chinese revolution. The U.S. has long encouraged reactionary and separatist forces on the island to “contain” China.

Communist Party of China General Secretary Xi Jinping has said, “The people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family. No one can sever our family bonds, and no one can stop the historical trend of national reunification.” The CPC has also made it clear that separatism will not be allowed to flourish, and the current situation cannot continue forever. Biden said the U.S. would intervene militarily to block reunification, and Trump says socialist China is afraid of him. So, we will see – it is a safe bet that what Xi Jinping says is right – if reunification is “inevitable.”

Trump, trade and tariffs

Countries that enact tariffs generally do so as a means to protect internal markets for industrial development. Monopoly capitalist powers in decline, like this U.S., have a bias towards tariffs as they shield internal markets and out of date industries from competition. For example, China has developed a steel industry that much more advanced than that in the U.S. – hence lots of tariffs for China’s steel and steel products.

The Biden administration kept many of the China tariffs from the first Trump administration and upped some – like those on electric vehicles and aluminum. Now Trump who bills himself as “tariff man” has vowed to take things to another level – at times talking about 60% tariffs on some Chinese goods, or 25% tariffs, and most recently 10% China tariffs starting February 1. We will see.

One impact of tariffs will be an upward pressure on prices in the U.S. at a time when many of us are tired of inflation. Also, tariffs will not result in a huge number of manufacturing jobs, because of the advances in automation technologies.

There is also a political/military dimension to the aspiration to “delink” the two economies and “protect” supply chains

It’s worth noting that the high tariffs were one of the factors that deepened the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Looking to the future

Current U.S. strategy towards China has several elements, including a massive military buildup – things like more naval spending, more troops and missiles in the Philippines, and Pentagon programs like the Pacific Deterrence Initiative. There is no reason to think the Trump administration will pull back on this or change direction.

U.S. strategy also includes drawing countries of the Pacific region into hostile alliances, formal or informal, against China. Trump may find that more difficult, largely because a U.S. under Trump cannot be counted on to honor its commitments – even to its lackeys.

On the balance, it can be said that the U.S. is on the road to greater conflict with China and the possibility of the U.S. provoking a major military conflict can not be ruled out – in fact it would be a likely consequence of where things are heading now.

Progressives, revolutionaries and those of us in the anti-war movement need to stand with China. China has done nothing wrong – it is developing socialism and working for peace. And not surprisingly, China has friends all over the world, including right here in the United States.

We are going to be busy over the next four years. We have an enemy in the White House that will wage an unrelenting war on people at home and abroad, it is our job to make sure that war is not a one sided one.

#RevolutionaryTheory #International #China #Trump #FRSO

Mao Ning stated, “The Panama Canal is a great creation of the people of Panama. It is a golden waterway for connectivity among countries. China has always supported the people of Panama in their just cause for sovereignty over the Canal. Dating back to the 1960s, large-scale demonstrations took place across China, which had been vocal in supporting the people of Panama in their struggle to regain their sovereignty over the area of the Canal. China will as always respect Panama’s sovereignty over the Canal and recognize the Canal as a permanently neutral international waterway. We believe the Canal will continue to make new contributions to facilitating integration and exchanges between people of different countries and enhancing humanity’s well being.”

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Marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Praxis Press, together with Friends of Socialist China, has released an excellent new book, People’s China at 75: The Flag Stays Red. This book is edited by Keith Bennett and Carlos Martinez, and compiles articles by China experts from all over the world explaining and defending Chinese socialism. Anyone who wants to understand socialism in China, from 1949 to today, should read this book.

The articles in the book cover a number of important topics. We can’t cover them all here, but we can look at some highlights. For example, Jenny Clegg’s article “China’s transition to socialism: 1049-1956” explains the period during which China laid the foundations of socialism. She discusses China’s post-war rehabilitation, New Democracy, and how it ensured that China would progress along the socialist road. The article examines the practical, economic elements of this transition, such as the development of Agricultural Producers Cooperatives, together with the political and ideological debates of the period. As Clegg writes in her conclusion, 

A careful handling of class relations allowed the people’s struggles against capitalism to unfold in sequenced steps, workers and peasants discussing and educating themselves as they engaged in policy implementation. Grassroots cadres, learning on the job, built broad support as the dynamics of class struggle exposed the inherent contradictions at each step. 

Leading Chinese scholars Cheng Enfu and Chen Jian, in the article “The significance of China’s fulfilment of its Second Centenary Goal by 2049,” explain and analyze the Communist Party of China’s “goal of building China into a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful by the centenary of the People’s Republic of China.”

The book also includes a short article by Roland Boer titled “China’s socialist democracy” which addresses the principle that “socialist democracy strengthens the leadership of the Communist Party, and the leadership of the Communist Party strengthens socialist democracy.” Boer is explaining a dialectical relationship at the core of the socialist system. “In other words, the leadership of the Communist Party ensures that the people are masters of the country, and the robust exercise of socialist democracy ensures that the Communist Party continues its role of legitimate leadership.”

J. Sykes, author of The Revolutionary Science of Marxism-Leninism, contributes the article “Mao, China, and the development of Marxism-Leninism.” In this article Sykes explains Mao’s contributions to Marxist theory. He breaks down Mao’s contributions to dialectical and historical materialism, revolutionary strategy, problems of socialist construction, and the defense of Marxism-Leninism against modern revisionism. While concisely explaining Mao’s contributions in each of these areas, Sykes makes the point that “Mao’s contributions to revolutionary theory are not limited to the Chinese context,” but are universal. “The theory-practice dialectic in fact goes both ways. By applying Marxism-Leninism to the concrete conditions of China, Marxism-Leninism itself was further developed and enriched.” 

In the article “Building socialism, building the ecological civilization,” Efe Can Gürcan explains how China is leading the way in environmental sustainability. This article does well to highlight how China is working to develop green technology in a world increasingly put at risk by the perils of climate change. 

Finally, the collection ends with an excellent article from Carlos Martinez: “How China survived the end of history.” Martinez examines how China survived the wave of counter-revolution that swept the socialist world between 1989 and 1991 to continue on the socialist road when so many other countries didn’t. 

Everyone interested in socialism should study the experience of China, and People’s China at 75: The Flag Stays Red stands out as an extraordinary collection of important writings on China's achievements, struggles, and contributions to the world revolutionary movement. 

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El siguiente discurso fue pronunciado por Mick Kelly, secretario político de la Organización Socialista Camino de la Libertad, el 29 de septiembre en la ciudad de Nueva York, en un evento para conmemorar el 75º aniversario de la fundación de la República Popular China.

Camaradas y amigos,

Nos reunimos aquí para un evento de genuina importancia, y quisiera expresar nuestra gratitud a los Amigos de la China Socialista y al Partido Obrero Mundial por tomar la iniciativa para que este evento se llevara a cabo.

Durante los últimos 75 años, la República Popular China, bajo la hábil dirección del Partido Comunista, ha logrado mucho para tanta gente. Desde la proclamación del Presidente Mao Zedong en 1949, “El pueblo chino se ha puesto de pie”, hasta el momento actual, China ha dado un ejemplo para el mundo. Desde realizar un esfuerzo serio para eliminar la pobreza hasta ser un líder en la aplicación de tecnología verde, la China socialista ha estado mostrando el camino.

Durante los últimos 75 años, la República Popular China, bajo la hábil dirección del Partido Comunista, ha logrado mucho para tanta gente. Desde la proclamación del Presidente Mao Zedong en 1949, “El pueblo chino se ha puesto de pie”, hasta el momento actual, China ha dado un ejemplo para el mundo. Desde realizar un esfuerzo serio para eliminar la pobreza hasta ser un líder en la aplicación de tecnología verde, la China socialista ha estado mostrando el camino.

Y hay cosas mayores por delante. En el último Congreso del Partido Comunista de China, el Secretario General Xi Jinping declaró: “Todos nosotros en el Partido debemos mantenernos fieles a nuestro propósito fundamental de servir al pueblo con todo el corazón, mantener una mentalidad centrada en el pueblo y llevar a cabo la línea de masas”. Más adelante en su discurso señaló: “El Partido ha alcanzado logros espectaculares a través de sus grandes esfuerzos durante el siglo pasado, y nuestros nuevos esfuerzos seguramente conducirán a logros aún más espectaculares”.

Estoy seguro de que hablo en nombre de todos nosotros al desearle a la República Popular China muchas más victorias en su 75º cumpleaños. Y eso incluye la esperanza de que concluya con éxito y rapidez la gran tarea pendiente de la revolución china – la misión histórica de lograr la reunificación con Taiwán.

Pero no todo está bien en el mundo. Todos lo sabemos. Así que, examinemos la situación internacional y algunas de sus características más importantes, especialmente la hostilidad de Estados Unidos hacia la China Popular, incluidas las medidas económicas y militares adoptadas por la Casa Blanca y el Pentágono, y el contexto en el que se están llevando a cabo estas medidas: el declive acelerado del imperialismo estadounidense.

Pero no todo está bien en el mundo. Todos lo sabemos. Así que, examinemos la situación internacional y algunas de sus características más importantes, especialmente la hostilidad de Estados Unidos hacia la China Popular, incluidas las medidas económicas y militares adoptadas por la Casa Blanca y el Pentágono, y el contexto en el que se están llevando a cabo estas medidas: el declive acelerado del imperialismo estadounidense.

La política antichina de Estados Unidos y el declive del imperialismo

Estados Unidos tiene un imperio que se extiende por todo el mundo, pero es un imperio en decadencia, como lo demuestran algunas medidas económicas básicas. La participación de Estados Unidos en el PIB mundial se ha reducido a la mitad desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La caída de la industria siderúrgica estadounidense ilustra este proceso. La mayor parte del acero se producía en Estados Unidos y en 1955 dominaba alrededor del 40% del mercado mundial. En 2019, Estados Unidos era uno de los mayores importadores de acero, y solo producía alrededor del 5% del acero del mundo. El mismo patrón se puede observar en una industria tras otra.

Comparemos esto con la China socialista. Utilizando la medida de la Paridad de Poder Adquisitivo (PPA), que permite comparar qué bienes y servicios se pueden comprar con una moneda determinada, el Banco Mundial concluyó que la economía china era un 23% mayor que la de Estados Unidos en 2022. China produce el doble de electricidad que Estados Unidos y casi tres veces más automóviles. Según la Alianza para la Manufactura Estadounidense, la capacidad de construcción naval de China es 232 veces mayor que la de Estados Unidos. La economía de la China Popular ha crecido a pasos agigantados desde 1949 y, debido a la superioridad del socialismo, nunca ha experimentado una crisis de sobreproducción. La República Popular China está emergiendo como un actor central en la economía mundial.

La respuesta de Estados Unidos a su cambio de gobierno ha sido significativa. A todos los efectos prácticos, ha abandonado el impulso de acuerdos comerciales multilaterales de gran escala. Estados Unidos trabajó duro para establecer la Organización Mundial del Comercio, y ahora bloquea el funcionamiento de la OMC al negarse a nombrar jueces para el organismo de resolución de disputas. Estados Unidos, que en el pasado fue el campeón del “libre comercio”, ahora es el practicante del proteccionismo.

En el contexto de un imperio en decadencia, Estados Unidos está tomando medidas para “desvincular” su economía de China, y la administración Biden está siguiendo los pasos de Trump. Hace unas semanas, el 13 de septiembre, la Casa Blanca anunció aranceles del 100% a los vehículos eléctricos importados de China. Se han impuesto o se impondrán aranceles a muchos más productos fabricados en China, como el acero, las baterías de litio, los equipos de protección personal como las mascarillas y mucho, mucho más. Además, la administración Biden ha optado por alejarse del modelo neoliberal en lo que respecta a la inversión de capital. Esto tiene dos aspectos: restringir la inversión en las industrias chinas y adoptar una política industrial que oriente la inversión hacia la manufactura. Como resultado, está en marcha el mayor auge de la construcción en muchas décadas – posiblemente 50 años – de fábricas estadounidenses.

La aceleración del declive de Estados Unidos está dando forma a una serie de otras contradicciones y el proceso de “desvinculación” económica de China es un asunto serio, especialmente porque ha estado acompañado de una serie de provocaciones, amenazas y preparativos de guerra.

Preparativos de guerra y nuestras tareas

Quienes lean revistas burguesas de política exterior como Foreign Affairs sabrán que en ellas se publican regularmente artículos sobre la cuestión de si una guerra de Estados Unidos con China será larga o corta. Y así es. El Pentágono ha dejado claro que su prioridad número uno es China, y eso se refleja en el gasto militar. Realmente lo hacen. Cabe señalar que está tratando de atrapar a los países del Pacífico en alianzas y agrupaciones en contra de China – formales e informales. Además de esto, Estados Unidos se está preparando para entregar a Taiwán el mayor paquete de ayuda militar de su historia, un movimiento que fortalecerá a las fuerzas separatistas en la isla.

La China Popular quiere la paz y Estados Unidos está en el camino hacia la guerra. Las implicaciones de esto son enormes y las fuerzas revolucionarias y progresistas de este país tienen mucho trabajo por delante. Es imperativo que nos opongamos activamente a todas y cada una de las guerras de Estados Unidos, a sus preparativos para la guerra, y que estemos en solidaridad con los oprimidos, desde Palestina hasta Filipinas – y con los países socialistas como China. La República Popular de China está haciendo del mundo un lugar mejor, mientras que los Estados Unidos facilita genocidio en Oriente Medio – la elección es clara. Tenemos un enemigo común en los capitalistas monopolistas.

Al permanecer juntos y unirnos como uno, los pueblos del mundo tienen un futuro brillante. En 1956, Mao Zedong señaló: “Ahora el imperialismo estadounidense es bastante poderoso, pero en realidad no lo es. Es muy débil políticamente porque está divorciado de las masas populares y es detestado por todos y por el pueblo estadounidense también. En apariencia es muy poderoso, pero en realidad no hay nada de qué temer, es un tigre de papel. Exteriormente es un tigre, está hecho de papel, incapaz de soportar el viento y la lluvia. Creo que Estados Unidos no es más que un tigre de papel”.

Así que, en conclusión, ¡fuera con el tigre de papel! ¡Viva la unidad del pueblo de Estados Unidos con el pueblo chino! ¡Viva la China socialista!

Gracias y felices 75 años a la República Popular China.

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The following speech was delivered by Mick Kelly, Political Secretary, Freedom Road Socialist Organization on September 29, at the New York City event marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

Comrades and friends,

We are gathered here for an event of genuine importance, and I would like to extend our gratitude to the Friends of Socialist China and the Workers World Party for taking the lead in making this happen.

For the past 75 years the People’s Republic of China, under the able leadership of the Communist Party, has accomplished so much for so many. From Chairman Mao Zedong’s 1949 proclamation, “The Chinese people have stood up,” right up until the present moment, China has set an example for the world. From carrying out a serious effort to eliminate poverty to being a leader in the application of green technology, socialist China has been showing the way.

And greater things lay ahead. At the most recent Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping stated, “All of us in the Party must stay true to our fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, maintain a people-centered mindset, and carry out the mass line.” Later in his speech he noted, “The Party has made spectacular achievements through its great endeavors over the past century, and our new endeavors will surely lead to more spectacular achievements.”

I am certain I speak for all of us in wishing the People’s Republic of China many more victories on its 75th birthday. And that includes hoping for the successful and speedy conclusion of the great unfinished piece of business of the Chinese revolution – the historic mission of achieving reunification with Taiwan.

But all is not right in the world. We all know that. So, let’s examine the international situation, and some of its most important features, especially U.S. hostility towards People’s China, including economic and military measures undertaken by the White House and Pentagon, and the context in which these measures are taking place: the accelerating decline of U.S. imperialism.

The U.S. anti-China policy and imperialism in decline

The U.S. has an empire that spans the globe, but it is an empire in decline, as shown by some basic economic measures. The U.S. share of the world GDP has been halved since the end of World War II. The fall of the U.S steel industry illustrates this process. The plurality of steel was once produced in the U.S. and in 1955 it dominated about 40% of the world market. By 2019 the U.S. was one of the largest steel importers, only producing about 5% of the world’s steel. The same pattern can be shown in industry after industry.

Contrast this with socialist China. Using the measure of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which allows one to compare which commodities and services can be purchased with a given currency, the World Bank concluded that the Chinese economy was 23% larger than that of the U.S. in 2022. China produces twice the electricity of the U.S. and almost three times as many autos. According to the Alliance for American Manufacturing, China’s shipbuilding capacity is 232 times greater than that of the United States. The economy of People’s China has grown by leaps and bounds since 1949 and, due to the superiority of socialism, it has never experienced a crisis of overproduction. The PRC is emerging as a central player in the world economy.

The U.S. response to its change in place has been significant. For all practical purposes, it has abandoned the drive for large scale multilateral trade agreements. The U.S. worked hard to establish the World Trade Organization, and now it blocks WTO functioning by refusing to appoint judges to the dispute resolution body. Once the champion of “free trade,” the U.S. is now the practitioner of protectionism.

In the context of declining empire, the U.S. is moving to “delink” its economy from China, and the Biden administration is following in the footsteps of Trump. A few weeks ago, on September 13, the White House announced tariffs of 100% on electric vehicles imported from China. Tariffs have been placed or will be imposed on many more China-made products, such as steel, lithium batteries, personal protection equipment such as masks and much, much more. Also, the Biden administration has elected to move away from the neoliberal model in so far as capital investment goes. There are two aspects to this: restricting investment in Chinese industries and adopting an industrial policy that steers investment to manufacturing. As a result, the greatest building boom in many decades –-possibly 50 years – of U.S. factories is underway.

The acceleration of the U.S. decline is shaping a host of other contradictions and the process of economic “delinking” from China is serious business, especially as it has been accompanied by a host of provocations, threats and war preparations.

War preparations and our tasks

For those of you who are readers of bourgeois foreign policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, you know that they regularly carry articles around the question of whether a U.S. war with China will be long or short. They really do. The Pentagon has made it clear that its number one priority is China, and that is reflected in military spending. It should be noted that it is trying to ensnare the counties of the Pacific into anti-China alliances and groupings – formal and informal. On top of this, the U.S. is getting ready to deliver its largest ever military aid package to Taiwan, a move that will embolden the separatist forces on the island.

People’s China wants peace, and U.S. is on a path towards war. The implications of this are huge and the revolutionary and progressive forces in this country have our work cut out for us. It is imperative that we actively oppose each and every U.S. war, its preparations for war, and stand in solidarity with the oppressed, from Palestine to the Philippines – and stand with the socialist countries like China. The People’s Republic of China is making the world a better place while the U.S is facilitating genocide in the Middle East – the choice is clear. We have a common enemy in the monopoly capitalists.

By standing together and uniting as one, the peoples of the world have a bright future. In 1956, Mao Zedong made the point, “Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn’t. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality, it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.”

So, in conclusion, away with the paper tiger! Long live the unity of the people of the U.S. with the Chinese people! Long live socialist China!

Thank you, and happy 75th to the People’s Republic of China.

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A new 25% tariff on lithium ion batteries as well as components and raw materials for lithium batteries for EVs will go into effect at the end of September, while lithium batteries, components and raw materials for all other uses such as electric scooters, power tools and toys will go into effect in 2026.

A 50% tariff will be placed on imports of Chinese semiconductors. Ironically, China’s semiconductor industry is growing in part because the United States is strong-arming U.S. and foreign chip makers to stop selling chips to China. China has become the world’s leader in producing materials for solar power, and Chinese polysilicon and silicon wafers will also face a 50% tariff.

A wide variety of imports from China, ranging from protective personal equipment (PPE) such as face masks and medical gloves, to ship-to-shore cranes used to load and unload container ships, to steel and aluminum, will face tariffs of no less than 25%.

Last but not least, the Biden administration is calling for the elimination of the “de minimus” exemption that allows packages with value of less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs. This will impact major e-commerce firms such as Amazon as well as new Asian firms such as Temu and Shein, all of which rely on shipping direct from China.

While the Biden administration said that the tariffs were in response to “harmful policies and practices” of China, the fact is that China has just pulled ahead of the United States in a number of industries. The CEO of Ford Motors has called Chinese EVs an “existential threat” because of their ability to offer better technology at lower prices than U.S. car corporations.

The tariffs on PPE are a threat to the health of Americans. During the pandemic, shortages of PPE were widespread in the United States due to the lack of American production. Even after the pandemic, rather than relying on subsidies for production and direct purchases by the Federal government to guarantee demand and stockpile health care essentials, the government would rather make them more expensive which will reduce their use and make Americans' health care even more expensive.

Tariffs are a type of sales tax that fall on imports. Since sales taxes are regressive—that is, their burden falls more heavily on lower-income households—the Biden administration tariffs will do the same. This is especially true if the government eliminates the de minimus ban which mainly fall on more inexpensive consumer goods bought by working and poor people.

Other tariffs on so-called “intermediate goods” that are used in production, such as batteries as well as polysilicon and silicon wafers, will make U.S. made products more expensive and slow efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The tariff on ship-to-shore cranes will make imports in general more expensive in the future and will just lead to more imports of these cranes from other countries since the United States does not produce any.

This is true in general for tariffs on imports from China. Since the U.S. began the trade war under the Trump administration in 2017, U.S. imports of goods from China are down more than 15%, but total imports from all countries are up 30%.

For decades the United States promoted free trade and in particular the free movement of capital. But as the U.S. economy declined relative to other countries, going from 40% of world Gross Domestic Product in the 1950s to only 20% today, the United States has become more protectionist. The big break came under the Trump Administration, but the Biden Administration has continued and escalated the trade war with China.

#SanJoseCA #CA #CapitalismAndEconomy #China #Tariffs #TradeWar

Together with the Filipino people, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the US military and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for planning to hold another round of large-scale war exercises in the Philippines that trample on the country’s national sovereignty and further drag the country into military and economic conflicts of the big powers.

The US plan to bring tens of thousands of troops and naval war vessels to conduct war exercises at the Mavulis island, together with their Filipino minions, at the northernmost tip of the Batanes province, is clearly saber-rattling and a show of force which will surely be considered by China as acts of provocation. Mavulis is a mere 140 kilometers from the southern coast of Taiwan, which the US has long been stoking to separate from China.

The Filipino people must call for the withdrawal of all American troops stationed in the Philippines and demand the dismantling of all US military bases and facilities. Serving as host to thousands of American troops makes the Philippines a pawn of US geopolitical and military strategy. Continuing to allow the US to make use of the country as a military stronghold for mounting its overseas military operations takes away the country’s capacity to exercise an independent foreign policy and uphold the policy of peace, amity and cooperation with all nations.

We must be keenly aware of how the US pursuit of its policy of war has perpetuated endless armed conflicts over the past decades since the end of World War II. The now 2-year war in Ukraine, the Zionist Israel genocide of the Palestinian people, and the expanding and escalating war in the Middle East are just some of recent examples of armed conflicts that arose from the US imperialist policy of using war as instrument in imposing global hegemony, in its rivalry with other imperialist powers and as a means of oppressing countries assertive of their national sovereignty.

Under US colonial, and later neocolonial, rule, the Philippines has long been subjected to US military intervention, and used as a springboard for US wars, including wars of aggression in Korea and Taiwan, as well as in Iran and Afghanistan. Indoctrinated, trained, armed and funded by the US, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) serves as pillar of US domination in the Philippines.

The Filipino people must militantly resist and oppose the Balikatan war exercises, and fight US military intervention and its policy of using the Philippines as a stronghold for US hegemonism in Asia, before the country becomes completely sucked into the vortex of US-initiated wars.

#Statement #International #Philippines #China #Taiwan #CPP

Freedom Road Socialist organization will be hosting an online meeting with Carlos Martinez, author of The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century on Sunday, October 29, 3 p.m. Central time (1 p.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Mountain, 4 p.m. Eastern).

The book was reviewed for Fight Back! by J. Sykes, who gave the following summary:

“The new book, The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century, by Carlos Martinez and published by Praxis Press, is a valuable and important defense of socialism in the People’s Republic of China today. As the U.S. ramps up propaganda and aggression against China, this book addresses an important need, for everyone who wants a better world, to understand and defend China.

“The book begins by acknowledging that there is a great deal of ignorance and confusion, especially in the imperialist countries, about China. Martinez writes, ‘Even among socialists and communists, there are misconceptions and important gaps in understanding.’ He addresses these issues head on.”

The Sykes review concludes, “The book ends with a call to ‘unite to oppose the U.S.-led New Cold War on China,’ and says that ‘All those that oppose imperialism must resolutely and consistently oppose the U.S.-led New Cold War in all its manifold forms.’ This is certainly true, and this book makes a great contribution towards that effort.”

Visit tinyurl.com/frso1023 to register for the meeting and receive the Zoom link.

#FRSO #Socialism #China

Republican Party activists are protesting the Chinese ownership of the battery plant despite the 2300 new jobs it brings to a dying city. Big Rapids has lost half of its population since the years when George Bush Sr. was president of the United States. The Gotion plant will bring industrial jobs back to an area that has 37% poverty rates. It will give small businesses a lifeline.

Members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized a canvassing campaign last month and came to the council meeting to comment. In their campaign, students went knocking door to door, handing out educational flyers, and received feedback from local Big Rapids residents about the Gotion plant. Many working-class residents and business owners alike responded positively to the information campaign. Their opinions are positive about the new jobs the Gotion battery plant will bring to the area.

At the city council meeting, two student activists spoke in public comment, supporting the 2300 jobs the Gotion plant will bring, while also advocating for a labor union and high environmental standards at this new factory. They were joined in comment by local allies from the Democrat Party, as well as by residents of Paris and Big Rapids who are in favor of the Gotion plant.

One SDS member said, “We need to ensure that they are held to a higher environmental standard than what the state and federal government, which are rather lax on environmental issues, demand. I think that Gotion would be more than willing to comply, as in China they have higher environmental standards than in the United States.”

Owen Frassetto spoke next in public comment. He said, “One interest, which is not common, nor beneficial to the working people, is Sinophobia, and general bigotry against Asian people.”

Frassetto went onto say, “If there are still concerns over who controls this battery plant, or environmental concerns, the best way to solve that problem is for the workers who will be employed at the plant to have a say in how it runs through a union, to ensure their voice is a strong one.”

The student activists were met with support from allies and other pro-jobs residents. At the same time, they were confronted with opposition from the anti-jobs Republicans. The pro-jobs people defended their points both in public comment and afterwards, receiving compliments from many there.

One resident said, “Despite the outcry, the Sinophobia, and some anti-Chinese remarks of anti-Gotion people, the plan to construct the factory is moving ahead, and it’ll bring over 2000 permanent jobs to our city.”

On the same day of the city council meeting, Gotion Inc. confirmed its purchase of 270 acres in the Big Rapids area.

#ParisMichigan #ParisMI #China #Asia

The new book, The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century, by Carlos Martinez and published by Praxis Press, is a valuable and important defense of socialism in the People’s Republic of China today. As the U.S. ramps up propaganda and aggression against China, this book addresses an important need, for everyone who wants a better world, to understand and defend China.

The book begins by acknowledging that there is a great deal of ignorance and confusion, especially in the imperialist countries, about China. Martinez writes, “Even among socialists and communists, there are misconceptions and important gaps in understanding.” He addresses these issues head on.

The first chapter focuses on the continuities of the revolution in China, from the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1921 until today. Martinez gives an overview of the history of the Chinese revolution and defends that legacy of Mao Zedong, while giving a balanced account of Mao’s more controversial initiatives, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

For example, while acknowledging that the turmoil and disruption of the Cultural Revolution significantly impeded China’s development, he also points out that it “had a more directly useful outcome” in terms of preventing the “ideological decay that was taking place in the Soviet Union.” According to Martinez it “set the parameters of how far Reform and Opening Up could go” and “laid the groundwork for Deng Xiaoping’s Four Cardinal Principles, which the CPC continues to observe today: 1) We must keep to the socialist road; 2) We must uphold the people’s democratic dictatorship; 3) We must uphold the leadership of the Communist Party; 4) We must uphold Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought.

Furthermore, he explains that the movement to send young intellectuals down to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution “was a crucial factor in the development of a new generation of young intellectuals with a close understanding of the needs of the peasantry and the situation in the countryside.” It is noteworthy that Chinese President Xi Jinping was himself sent to the countryside as part of this movement.

Looking at the post-1978 Reform and Opening Up period initiated by Deng Xiaoping, Martinez recognizes that many see this period as “a turning point in the wrong direction.” Martinez argues against this view. Instead, Martinez notes, “Deng Xiaoping’s strong belief was that, unless the government delivered on a significant improvement in people’s standard of living, the entire socialist project would lose its legitimacy and therefore be in peril.”

This is a point that Martinez revisits in the chapter “Will China suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union?” He argues that the combination of economic stagnation and ideological decay in the USSR led to the collapse of socialism in the USSR.

This point should be made clearer. Indeed, while the material basis of Soviet revisionism was rooted in the economic reforms of the Khrushchev period, which emphasized market reforms, profitability, material incentives, and so on, a deciding factor was the question of the class struggle in the superstructure and the abandonment of Marxism-Leninism by the Soviet leadership. Contrast the People’s Republic of China’s Four Cardinal Principles with Khrushchev’s revisionist theses of “state of the whole people” and “party of the whole people,” negating the class character of the USSR and Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and it is easy to see the gulf that stands between the two approaches.

Martinez rightly notes that the CPC’s reform period took a “grassroots” approach that was “patient, incremental, and results-oriented” while the Gorbachev “reforms” that brought about the final restoration of capitalism in the USSR in 1991, were undemocratically imposed on the Soviet people, rather than leveraging the creativity of the Soviet masses.

Martinez explains, “Although China’s reform process served to introduce market forces into the economy, the whole process was carried out under the tight control of the government and took place within the context of a planned economy.” Indeed, the commanding heights of the Chinese economy remain state owned, with state owned enterprises making up 60% of the economy; and most of the value created by the working class in China is socially distributed, going towards the betterment of society. And while the revisionists in the Soviet Union attacked the history of the USSR and spent 30 years dismantling the rule of the proletariat and its party, the opposite has taken place in China, where the CPC maintains its central, leading role, based on the scientific application of Marxism to Chinese conditions. In fact, when rightists in the CPC led by Zhao Ziyang tried to restore capitalism in 1989, the CPC stood firm in its commitment to the socialist road.

A highlight of the book is a careful and thorough analysis of “China’s long war against poverty.” The People’s Republic of China has eradicated extreme poverty. What does this mean? “At the start of the targeted poverty alleviation programme in 2014,” Martinez writes, “just under 100 million people were identified as living below the poverty line; seven years later, the number was zero.” The Chinese government defines extreme poverty alleviation in terms of what it calls the “two assurances and three guarantees.” As Martinez explains, “The two assurances are for adequate food and clothing; the three guarantees are for access to medical services, safe housing with drinking water and electricity, and at least nine years of free education.” He contrasts this to the advanced capitalist countries, where nothing is promised, where profit is more important than people, and where poverty and inequality are on the rise.

Likewise, the book highlights the People’s Republic of China’s commitment to ecological development. Martinez writes that, “Over the last decade in particular, China has emerged as the undisputed leader in the fight against climate breakdown, and the results of this leadership are reverberating globally.”

Against the charge from some, even on the Left, that China is imperialist, Martinez argues that “imperialism doesn’t look like this.” He explains the Leninist theory of imperialism as monopoly capitalism. According to Lenin, imperialism is based on the concentration of capital into monopolies, whereby the economy becomes dominated by a “financial oligarchy.” The export of capital takes center stage, and monopolist capitalist associations share the world among themselves, leading to the total division of the world among the imperialist powers. The October Revolution in 1917 ruptured this imperialist chain, and the other socialist countries, including China, followed suit.

Against the claim that China is imperialist, The East is Still Red emphasizes that China’s role in the developing world is qualitatively different from that of the imperialist countries. It acknowledges that imperialism has the function of locking in underdevelopment, while China’s role encourages development while respecting sovereignty. The book discusses this issue in terms of China’s role in “building a multipolar world.” The concept of “multipolarity” doesn’t really get to the heart of the issue, however, as Martinez himself acknowledges by saying that “the multipolar narrative doesn’t make explicit reference to anti-imperialism.”

Indeed, it would be clearer to understand the place of China in relation to the four fundamental contradictions operating on a world scale: the contradiction between the working class and the capitalists, the contradiction between the imperialist powers, the contradiction between the imperialists and the oppressed nations, and the contradiction between the imperialists and the socialist countries. Of these, the contradiction between the imperialists and the oppressed nations is primary, meaning it is the contradiction that is driving things on a world scale. What China is doing is providing aid to the countries of the developing world that allows them to avoid the liberalization, privatization, domination and plunder that are central to the neo-colonialist approach of the imperialist countries. While this development isn’t sufficient to bring socialism to those countries, it does serve to further weaken imperialism.

Importantly, Martinez also discusses the growing drive for war against China from the imperialist powers, especially the United States. He explains how the U.S. attempts to manufacture consent for aggression against China, and answers the propaganda with facts. Against the “Third Camp” Trotskyites who say “Neither a Washington nor Beijing,” Martinez is clear that they are, in fact, playing right into the hands of the imperialists.

The bulk of Chapter 5 of The East is Still Red is devoted to debunking the imperialist accusations that the People’s Republic of Cina is committing human rights abuses against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. The book refutes the lie that the Chinese government is committing “cultural genocide” and is operating “concentration camps.” Similarly, it exposes the role of the U.S. in attempting to destabilize Xinjiang.

The book ends with a call to “unite to oppose the U.S.-led New Cold War on China,” and says that “All those that oppose imperialism must resolutely and consistently oppose the U.S.-led New Cold War in all its manifold forms.” This is certainly true, and this book makes a great contribution towards that effort.

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According to the New China News Agency, Xi stated, “Cuba is the first country in the Western Hemisphere that established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Our ties have become an example of solidarity and cooperation between socialist countries, as well as an example of sincere mutual assistance between developing countries.”

Xi also stated, “No matter how the international situation may change, China's commitment to long-term friendship with Cuba will not change. China's determination to support Cuba in pursuing socialism will not change. China’s will to work with Cuba to safeguard international fairness and justice and oppose hegemony and power politics will not change.”

#China #Cuba #Asia #Americas #PeoplesStruggles #CommunistPartyOfChina #CommunistPartyOfCuba

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement initiated by Friends of Socialist China. Freedom Road Socialist Organization is among the signers.

We strongly condemn the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of its Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China. In the words of former OHCHR lawyer and human rights expert Alfred de Zayas, this document “should be discarded as propagandistic, biased, and methodologically flawed.”

Based on substandard research methods and biased sources, the Assessment is completely lacking in credibility. It treats arms of the military-industrial complex such as the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), along with professional anti-communists such as Adrian Zenz, as legitimate sources. Meanwhile the voices of Chinese NGOs, academics and individuals are suppressed, as are the numerous reports of diplomatic trips to Xinjiang – including by representatives of Muslim-majority countries – that have taken place in recent years.

The Assessment pointedly ignores China’s extraordinary progress in promoting the human rights of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang: in relation to poverty alleviation, social welfare, economic development, safety from terrorist attacks, and more. Instead, the document uses deliberately ambiguous language – that China’s actions “may” constitute crimes against humanity – in order to slander the People’s Republic of China whilst maintaining some plausible deniability.

It is highly suspicious that the Assessment makes no mention of then-UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet’s visit to Xinjiang in May 2022. Having visited a prison and spoken to former trainees at a vocational education and training center; having interacted with civil society organizations, academics, and community and religious leaders; Bachelet found no evidence of crimes against humanity. The numerous conversations she had do not form part of the data set for the Assessment.

What is the reason for the disparity between the OHCHR report and Bachelet’s end-of-mission statement? It is painfully obvious that the OHCHR has come under intense pressure from the US to bolster the credibility of the lurid slanders that have been thrown at China by Western politicians and journalists. Such propaganda forms part of the West’s imperial agenda of undermining China.

The OHCHR Assessment does a profound disservice to the cause of strengthening global human rights cooperation. The report does not enjoy a mandate from the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council, and it runs counter to the wishes and interests of the mainstream of the international community. A joint statement delivered by Cuba at the 50th session of the Human Rights Council in June this year stated its firm opposition to the “politicization of human rights and double standards, or interference in China’s internal affairs under the pretext of human rights”. This statement was signed by 69 countries, the overwhelming majority from the Global South.

Given the OHCHR’s relative silence in relation to persistent human rights abuses by the imperialist powers, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the Assessment is politically-motived, produced under pressure from the US, and designed to contribute to a dangerous, escalating New Cold War.

We call on the OHCHR to withdraw its Assessment, and we stand in solidarity with the people of China, subjected to abhorrent and baseless accusations.

Initial signatories (organizations)

    Communist Party of Britain

    Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

    Freedom Road Socialist Organization

    Geopolitical Economy Research Group

    Ghana China Friendship Association

    Goldsmiths Anti-Imperialist Society

    Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War

    Institute for Independence Studies

    Instituto Simón Bolívar

    International Action Center

    International Manifesto Group

    La Città Futura

    Multipolarista

    Network in Defense of Humanity (Quebec chapter)

    New Cold War

    New Communist Party (Britain)

    Partido Comunista do Brasil

    Party of Communists USA

    Peace, Land, and Bread

    Popular Resistance

    Qiao Collective

    Socialist Unity Party

    South African Communist Party

    South African Peace Initiative

    The Canada Files

    Veterans for Peace – China Working Group

    Workers and Peasants Party Pakistan

    Workers World Party

    Young Communist League (Boston)

#UnitedStates #China #FriendsOfSocialistChina #Asia

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the provocative and war-mongering visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to China’s territory of Taiwan.

Pelosi is a reactionary, anti-working-class imperialist politician with a long record of inveterate hostility to Socialist China and the Chinese people. Her visit to Taiwan is a major political provocation that carries with it a grave danger of leading to regional and even world war. It is a gross violation of international law and, in particular, of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 and the clear provisions of the three joint communiques by China and the United States.

There is only one China in the world and its sole legal government is that of the People’s Republic of China. This is an absolute and immutable fact on which there is no room for compromise. This much is recognized by 180 countries around the world, including the US, as well as by the United Nations. When and how China completes its historic goal of complete national reunification is the internal affair of the Chinese people and the Chinese people alone. No outside interference of any kind is acceptable.

Pelosi’s visit once again makes clear to all humanity that the United States is the world’s number one rogue state. Its diatribes about a so-called ‘rules based international order’ are nothing but a fig leaf for its hegemonic behavior, its gangster-like bullying and its flagrant disregard for international law.

The idea that Pelosi’s visit is some kind of unilateral action, for which the US administration is somehow not responsible, is ridiculous. She is constitutionally the second in line of succession to the Presidency. As Pelosi’s military aircraft landed in Taipei, the US assembled a veritable armada in waters off Taiwan’s east coast, including an aircraft carrier strike group, a guided missile cruiser and a destroyer. As Commander-in-Chief, President Biden bears full responsibility for this.

Pelosi’s visit caps – and escalates – a series of moves by both the present US administration and its predecessor to encourage the separatist element in Taiwan, to undermine the One China principle, to escalate the militarization of the region, and to gravely threaten peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region and indeed the world. This includes public remarks by Biden himself on several occasions. As President Xi Jinping solemnly pointed out to Biden in their recent telephone conversation, those who play with fire will end up getting burned. The United States bears full responsibility for its egregious actions and for all the consequences arising therefrom.

We stand by the Chinese people, government and military in their just response to this serious infringement of China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. We join with the brave people of Taipei who gathered outside Pelosi’s hotel, to demand, in words that echo and resonate from Cuba to Korea and from Venezuela to Iran: “Yankee, go home!”

Statement issued by Friends of Socialist China.

Organizational signatories:

Center for Communist Studies

Critical Theory Workshop

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Guerrilla History podcast

Geopolitical Economy Research Group

Goldsmiths Anti-Imperialist Society

Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War

Hampton Institute

Institute for Independence Studies

International Action Center

International Manifesto Group

Iskra Books

Multipolarista

Party of Communists USA

Peace, Land, and Bread

Pivot to Peace

Radical Education Department

Revolutionary Left Radio

Socialist Unity Party

The Canada Files

United National Antiwar Coalition

Workers World Party

#UnitedStates #AntiwarMovement #Asia #PeoplesStruggles #China #FriendsOfSocialistChina

New Orleans, LA – This year, transgender star and People’s Liberation Army veteran Jin Xing announced the re-launch of her talk show. It aired from 2015 to 2017 as the most-watched show in China. With 100 million viewers, Jin was the world’s most popular trans celebrity. Her rise to fame foretells the Chinese people’s rise against transphobia.

But in the U.S., trans people have suffered sharpening attacks. Last year broke records for trans murders and state-level anti-trans legislation.

What does this difference tell us?

The U.S. empowers bigots

The Republican evangelical right scapegoats trans people as their latest “culture war” to mobilize far-right support and secure corporate interests.

In a coordinated transphobic attack, state legislatures introduced over 100 anti-trans bills in 2021. In Newsweek, Imara Jones reported about how hate groups like the Family Research Council draft and disseminate “model legislation,” including bans on trans kids playing sports and getting healthcare.

Billionaires like the DeVos and Prince families fund these strategic centers. At the grassroots, religious fundamentalists mobilize support from the white rural petit-bourgeoisie and sections of the working class. Ever since Southern legislatures wrecked unions in the 1940s and 50s, Republicans have increasingly fed chauvinism to white workers to redirect their frustrations from financial ruin.

Capitalists benefit by maintaining the gender division of labor. Working men endure long hours for little pay, women toil on the job for even less and in the home for no pay, trans and non-binary people remain underemployed reserve laborers. Misogyny and transphobia both secure this system.

Racist, anti-trans violence reinforces it. Most of last year’s 53 trans murder victims were Black and Latinx, according to the Human Rights Campaign. These murders reflect the U.S.’s ongoing subjugation of Black, Chicano, Puerto Rican and indigenous nations. National oppression cultivates the most vicious transphobia.

In the face of these attacks, Democrats have remained weak. In 2021, Louisiana conservatives passed a transgender sports ban with Democratic support. It took a popular transgender movement to win the votes to block the bills during a second legislative session.

Chinese socialism upholds equality

However, in China, recent advances show promise. In 2021, Shanghai’s Children’s Hospital of Fudan University caught global attention with its trans youth clinic. This clinic didn’t come out of nowhere, but out of Chinese socialism’s commitment to common prosperity.

In 2021, the Chinese Communist Party eliminated absolute poverty by going among the masses to meet their needs. CGTN, the China Global Television Network, reported on a similar strategy for eliminating HIV transmission. In a 2015 testing rollout, the government partnered with gay community groups to make over 200,000 appointments. Although the virus itself does not discriminate, it disproportionately affects gay men and transgender women.

Chinese courts are also expanding protections for transgender people. Yennefer Fang’s documentary, A Day of Trans, describes how Mr. C, a trans man, won a case against discrimination in 2018. In the verdict, China first clarified “gender expression.” Writing for Sixthtone, Fan Yiying noted that a 2017 case in Guiyang was the first to use the term “gender identity.” In 2020, Siyuan Meng reported in RadiiChina that a trans woman won a similar suit, and 82% of netizens who viewed the story supported her.

Although the Beijing LGBT Center reported a 12% pre-pandemic unemployment rate for trans Chinese, this is still lower than the United States’ 15% pre-pandemic rate, according to data from the U.S.-based National Center for Transgender Equality.

China’s historic victories against feudal patriarchy helped lay the foundation for today’s advancement. The 2019 White Paper on Women’s Progress details how the Women’s Federation and the Communist Party have fought women’s oppression since the revolution. Cadres established kindergartens, nurseries and nursing homes to relieve women of domestic work. The 1950 Marriage Law established equal marriage. Recently, China expanded breast and cervical cancer screening in rural areas. Liberating women is a step towards to ending all gender-based oppression.

China shuts down today’s reactionary forces too. One example is the Falun Gong cult, which is outlawed. Its followers oppose science, interracial marriage and homosexuality, according to cult specialist Rick Ross. This is exactly the kind of group that would organize with U.S. far-right evangelicals – and indeed it does. In 2019, an NBC investigation exposed how Falun Gong spent $1.5 million in Facebook advertisements for Trump’s presidential campaign. The U.S.’s tolerance for hateful groups feeds into soaring anti-trans violence. China doesn’t stand for this extremism.

Trends to continue

China still needs many inclusions and protections for trans people. But just as we must analyze the systemic roots of American transphobia, we need to understand the basis of current progress in China.

Transgender rights are a constant battle in the U.S., where rich and reactionary chauvinists can reverse the gains of LGBT Rights Movements. China also has a long road ahead, but the way is far clearer and less perilous. The country is continuously improving, and socialism with Chinese characteristics offers a firm basis for advancement.

#NewOrleansLA #PeoplesStruggles #China

Minneapolis, MN – On October 23, the Twin Cities District of Freedom Road Socialist Organization held an educational event at the University of Minnesota titled “No New Cold War Against China!” The event was part of a yearly celebration of the October socialist revolutions which occurred in Russia (1917) and China (1949). The event's speakers were Autumn Lake of the Anti-War Committee, Mick Kelly of Freedom Road Socialist Organization and Danny Haiphong of the Black Agenda Report and Friends of Socialist China.

Speakers discussed a wide range of topics related to the ongoing intensification of U.S. aggression towards the People's Republic of China, ranging from false accusations of human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to hostile U.S. naval exercises in the South China Sea.

Mick Kelly began the event by outlining the revolutionary achievements of socialist China as well as the importance of opposing the New Cold War being waged by the United States. Kelly stated, “This Cold War has the possibility of becoming a hot war due to the actions of the United States along with an array of hostile Western powers, including Japan, marching to Washington DC's drumbeat.”

After Kelly, Autumn Lake explained the U.S. intervention strategy of manufacturing false human rights narratives as a pretext for war. Examples included the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and U.S. military intervention in Syria. Lake explained how this pattern of manufacturing consent for U.S. conflict has been recently applied to China through the Hong Kong protests and false accusations of genocide in Xinjiang.

Danny Haiphong summarized the various components of the New Cold War against China. These include the failed trade war initiated under the Trump administration, sanctions against the Communist Party of China and tech firms like Huawei, and the military 'Pivot to Asia' which began under the Obama administration. Haiphong concluded by explaining how the New Cold War reflects a desperate attempt of declining U.S. imperialism to contain the rising socialist advancement of China, as well as the alternative path of global peace and cooperation it offers. A question-and-answer segment concluded the event.

More than 30 community members and students attended the event along with numerous online viewers via livestream.

#MinneapolisMN #PeoplesStruggles #China #Socialism #ColdWar #Asia

To mark the October 1, 1949 proclamation of the Peoples Republic of China, Fight Back! is circulating a statement that the outstanding Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong made at the opening address at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on September 21, 1949.

Fellow Delegates,

The Political Consultative Conference so eagerly awaited by the whole nation is herewith inaugurated.

Our conference is composed of more than six hundred delegates, representing all the democratic parties and people's organizations of China, the People's Liberation Army, the various regions and nationalities of the country and the overseas Chinese. This shows that ours is a conference embodying the great unity of the people of the whole country.

It is because we have defeated the reactionary Kuomintang government backed by U.S. imperialism that this great unity of the whole people has been achieved. In a little more than three years the heroic Chinese People's Liberation Army, an army such as the world has seldom seen, crushed all the offensives launched by the several million troops of the U.S.-supported reactionary Kuomintang government and turned to the counter-offensive and the offensive. At present the field armies of the People's Liberation Army, several million strong, have pushed the war to areas near Taiwan, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Szechuan and Sinkiang, and the great majority of the Chinese people have won liberation. In a little more than three years the people of the whole country have closed their ranks, rallied to support the People's Liberation Army, fought the enemy and won basic victory. And it is on this foundation that the present People's Political Consultative Conference is convened.

Our conference is called the Political Consultative Conference because some three years ago we held a Political Consultative Conference with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang.[1] The results of that conference were sabotaged by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang and its accomplices; nevertheless the conference left an indelible impression on the people. It showed that nothing in the interest of the people could be accomplished together with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, the running dog of imperialism, and its accomplices. Even when resolutions were reluctantly adopted, it was of no avail, for as soon as the time was ripe, they tore them up and started a ruthless war against the people. The only gain from that conference was the profound lesson it taught the people that there is absolutely no room for compromise with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, the running dog of imperialism, and its accomplices — overthrow these enemies or be oppressed and slaughtered by them, either one or the other, there is no other choice. In a little more than three years the Chinese people, led by the Chinese Communist Party, have quickly awakened and organized themselves into a nation-wide united front against imperialism, feudalism, bureaucrat-capitalism and their general representative, the reactionary Kuomintang government, supported the People's War of Liberation, basically defeated the reactionary Kuomintang government, overthrown the rule of imperialism in China and restored the Political Consultative Conference.

The present Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is convened on an entirely new foundation; it is representative of the people of the whole country and enjoys their trust and support. Therefore, the conference proclaims that it will exercise the functions and powers of a National People's Congress. In accordance with its agenda, the conference will enact the Organic Law of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Organic Law of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China and the Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; it will elect the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Central People's Government Council of the People's Republic of China; it will adopt the national flag and national emblem of the People's Republic of China; and it will decide on the seat of the capital of the People's Republic of China and adopt the chronological system in use in most countries of the world.

Fellow Delegates, we are all convinced that our work will go down in the history of mankind, demonstrating that the Chinese people, comprising one quarter of humanity, have now stood up. The Chinese have always been a great, courageous and industrious nation; it is only in modern times that they have fallen behind. And that was due entirely to oppression and exploitation by foreign imperialism and domestic reactionary governments. For over a century our forefathers never stopped waging unyielding struggles against domestic and foreign oppressors, including the Revolution of 1911 led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, our great forerunner in the Chinese revolution. Our forefathers enjoined us to carry out their unfulfilled will. And we have acted accordingly. We have closed our ranks and defeated both domestic and foreign oppressors through the People's War of Liberation and the great people's revolution, and now we are proclaiming the founding of the People's Republic of China. From now on our nation will belong to the community of the peace-loving and freedom-loving nations of the world and work courageously and industriously to foster its own civilization and well-being and at the same time to promote world peace and freedom. Ours will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation. We have stood up. Our revolution has won the sympathy and acclaim of the people of all countries. We have friends all over the world.

Our revolutionary work is not completed, the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolutionary movement are still forging ahead and we must keep up our efforts. The imperialists and the domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat lying down; they will fight to the last ditch. After there is peace and order throughout the country, they are sure to engage in sabotage and create disturbances by one means or another and every day and every minute they will try to stage a come-back. This is inevitable and beyond all doubt, and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance.

Our state system, the people's democratic dictatorship, is a powerful weapon for safeguarding the fruits of victory of the people's revolution and for thwarting the plots of domestic and foreign enemies for restoration, and this weapon we must firmly grasp. Internationally, we must unite with all peace-loving and freedom-loving countries and peoples, and first of all with the Soviet Union and the New Democracies, so that we shall not stand alone in our struggle to safeguard these fruits of victory and to thwart the plots of domestic and foreign enemies for restoration. As long as we persist in the people's democratic dictatorship and unite with our foreign friends, we shall always be victorious.

The people's democratic dictatorship and solidarity with our foreign friends will enable us to accomplish our work of construction rapidly. We are already confronted with the task of nation-wide economic construction. We have very favourable conditions: a population of 475 million people and a territory of 9,600,000 square kilometres. There are indeed difficulties ahead, and a great many too. But we firmly believe that by heroic struggle the people of the country will surmount them all. The Chinese people have rich experience in overcoming difficulties. If our forefathers, and we also, could weather long years of extreme difficulty and defeat powerful domestic and foreign reactionaries, why can't we now, after victory, build a prosperous and flourishing country? As long as we keep to our style of plain living and hard struggle, as long as we stand united and as long as we persist in the people's democratic dictatorship and unite with our foreign friends, we shall be able to win speedy victory on the economic front.

An upsurge in economic construction is bound to be followed by an upsurge of construction in the cultural sphere. The era in which the Chinese people were regarded as uncivilized is now ended. We shall emerge in the world as a nation with an advanced culture.

Our national defense will be consolidated and no imperialists will ever again be allowed to invade our land. Our people's armed forces must be maintained and developed with the heroic and steeled People's Liberation Army as the foundation. We will have not only a powerful army but also a powerful air force and a powerful navy.

Let the domestic and foreign reactionaries tremble before us! Let them say we are no good at this and no good at that. By our own indomitable efforts, we the Chinese people will unswervingly reach our goal.

The heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolution shall live forever in our memory!

Hail the victory of the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolution!

Hail the founding of the People's Republic of China!

Hail the triumph of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference!

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Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S. - originally published last year and penned by dozens of writers from the U.S. and around the world – will now be translated and distributed in China. It will be available for sale by late September.

The book’s secondary title – An anthology of social justice activists discussing a global choice: cooperation vs. competition - describes the stark choice facing humanity.

“It’s been an honor for our book to be published in China,” said Lee Siu Hin, national coordinator of the China-U.S. Solidarity Network and the National Immigrant Solidarity Network, as well as a writer and editor of the book, “and a great opportunity for U.S. activists to meet and build solidarity with Chinese academia and activists. We hope to continue this work for peace and friendship.”

The authors detail the decisive, comprehensive steps taken by the Chinese government to break the chain of infection, as opposed to the chaotic U.S. response which ranged from outright denial to chaotic bungling, to racist blame games.

Events have borne out the message of the book, published in July 2020 when the U.S. COVID-19 death toll was 150,000. That number has since quadrupled, reaching well over 600,000 in a country of 350 million. By contrast, since that time the number of deaths in China, a country of 1.4 billion, has remained below 5000.

Capitalism on a Ventilator also puts into perspective the ridiculous campaign to use the “lab-leak theory” to blame China for the coronavirus. It was China which, in January 2020, tried to warn the U.S. about the virus, through phone calls, public announcements and early sequencing of the virus, mounting the world’s most comprehensive and successful campaign against the novel disease.

“Despite China’s many accomplishments, a dangerous war drive against China is gaining momentum in the U.S.,” said Sara Flounders, director of the International Action Center and co-editor of the book. “Hopefully this book will introduce voices who are resisting this pull and urging science, cooperation and solidarity as the only alternative.”

Fight Back! editor Mick Kelly states, “This important book includes a chapter from one of our writers, Robert Hayes, that shows the superiority of socialism in combating COVID-19. Every activist should get this book and read it.”

In September of last year, union-busting Amazon tried to ban Capitalism on a Ventilator from its all-powerful platform, claiming the book did not “comply with [Amazon’s] guidelines” and falsely listing it as “out of print.”

While an outcry forced Amazon to carry the title on its megasite, even now it cannot be found on Kindle, the publishing giant’s e-book format.

The chapters include articles by many authors including: Ajamu Baraka, Monica Moorehead, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Margaret Kimberley, Margaret Flowers, Vijay Prashad, Max Blumenthal, Lee Siu Hin, Sara Flounders, Carlos Martinez, Kevin Zeese, Deirdre Griswold and more.

The book can be found online at these locations:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/capitalism-on-a-ventilator https://world-view-forum.myshopify.com/products/capitalism-on-a-ventilator https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Ventilator-Impact-COVID-19-China/dp/0895671964

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Mick Kelly is a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of Freedom Road Socialist Organization and is responsible for the organization’s international relations. The following essay appeared in the book, A Century of the Communist Party of China, Statements from 100 Foreign Communists, published by the Contemporary China Publishing House.

This July 2021 marks a world historic occasion, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). It is an event of real significance for progressives, revolutionaries, and communists the world over, including those of us in the United States. China’s rich experience in defeating Western and Japanese imperialism, eliminating feudalism, and constructing a socialist society is of interest to all who hope for and are working for a bright future.

The Chinese people once had three immense mountains on their backs – imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism. The CPC lead the Chinese people in removing these burdens. Old China, beset by the plague of foreign imperialists, warlords, and the land-owning class of parasites, was a nightmare of starvation and subjugation. It was a society unable to save itself, and helpless in the face of adversity.

The British waged a war for the “right” to sell opium and claimed the city of Hong Kong as its own. The U.S. and other Western powers occupied Beijing in 1900, looting art, burning historic buildings, and mutilating the bodies of those they murdered – for the propose of obtaining an “open door” to exploit the land, labor and resources of the Chinese people. In Shanghai, the foreigners had their own park and they put up a sign, “No dogs or Chinese allowed.” Adding insult to injury they assumed the mantle of “standard bearers of civilization.” New China, the China led by the CPC and supported by other patriotic forces put to end to that.

Standing on the rostrum of Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1949, the outstanding Marxist–Leninist, Mao Zedong proclaimed, “The Chinese have stood up,” and the much-needed work of building a modern, socialist country commenced.

Here in the U.S., the importance of the Chinese revolution and the positive example provided by socialism stands out in sharp relief. While the number of poor is growing in the United States, and the standard of living along with life expediency is declining, People’s China is eliminating poverty. Under the leadership of the CPC, China waged a people’s war on the COVID-19 pandemic and brought the crisis under control. Contrast that with the U.S., where a combination of criminal government mismanagement of the pandemic combined with a heath care system that exists only to obtain the highest rate of profit, has left more than half a million people dead. And every day that number grows.

Anyone who takes the perspective of the working class, and the broad masses of people as a whole, cannot help but to conclude that monopoly capitalism is a failed system that exists to serve the few at the expense of the many.

CPC is an organizer of successes and a problem solver

Critical to China’s many successes is the commitment to applying the living science of Marxism, or scientific socialism, to the realities of Chinese society. This includes maintaining the leading role of the CPC and adhering to the road of building socialism with characteristics that suit China’s needs. By any standard, the results have been spectacular. For example, the economy of the People’s China has grown every year since 1949. Socialism has proved its superiority time and time again. On the other hand, the economies of the West, including the U.S., are prone to periodic crises of overproduction, where industries are shut down, factories are shuttered, and communities of working-class people are devastated. Be it in regard to tackling the problem of land reform, issues of national development, or contributions on the world stage – there is much for communists everywhere to learn from.

China like the U.S. has many nationalities. China fosters equality and mutual respect among its different nationalities, and the leaders of the CPC have adopted many positive measures, such as supporting the liberation of Tibetans from serfdom. Compare that with Washington’s dismal human rights record, or with the oppression visited upon the African American people, who face systematic inequality which is enforced by police terror. That is why a major uprising rocked the U.S. following the murder of George Floyd. The people of the U.S. have had enough of racist discrimination and the anger is growing. Monopoly capitalism never solves problems, it causes them.

Even before taking nationwide political power in 1949, the CPC had made big contributions to the world revolutionary process. By undertaking the national united front against Japan, China along with the Soviet Union made big contributions to the defeat of the fascist powers. The CPC also developed Marxist–Leninist thinking on the problems of national liberation, party building, the need for the people to have their own armed forces, and the necessity of uniting all who can by united in a broad united front for liberation.

Evaluating the process that led to the creation of the Communist Party and the important role the Party has played, Xi Jinping correctly told the 9th CPC National Congress:

“A hundred years ago, the salvoes of the October Revolution brought Marxism-Leninism to China. In the scientific truth of Marxism-Leninism, Chinese progressives saw a solution to China's problems. With the advent of modern times, Chinese society became embroiled in intense upheavals; this was a time of fierce struggle as the Chinese people resisted feudal rule and foreign aggression. It was in the midst of this, in 1921, as Marxism-Leninism was integrated with the Chinese workers' movement, that the Communist Party of China was born. From that moment on, the Chinese people have had in the Party a backbone for their pursuit of national independence and liberation, of a stronger and more prosperous country, and of their own happiness; and the mindset of the Chinese people has changed, from passivity to taking the initiative.”

It cannot be said that the CPC has never made any mistakes because that would be a departure from the facts. That said, the CPC has long advanced the idea that, “practice is the sole criterion of truth,” which has allowed Chinese communists to address problems in a timely way, and that by far and away is the main thing.

Every person and every political party sometimes make errors. How could it be otherwise? The point however is to be good at summing up one’s practice and have clear criteria to distinguish right from wrong. For example, in the mid to late 1980’s some forces emerged in China that were antagonistic to socialism. With Western backing, they opposed the socialist road and said the “moon shined brighter in the West.” In the end the CPC was able to address these problems, overcome the challenges posed by destructive forces, maintain the leading role of the party in society, and continue on the road of socialist development.

All this contrasts favorably with the setbacks that impacted some of the socialist countries. Starting in the late 1950’s, the leaders of the USSR departed from Marxism–Leninism, then caused splits in the world communist movement, and allowed corruption to divorce the leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from the working people. This same process was reproduced in the socialist counties of Eastern Europe. In the end, socialism was destroyed from within by hostile class forces – with the willing assistance of Western imperial powers. The peoples of the USSR and Europe found out through their own bitter experience what happens when capitalism wins out. The result was hunger, degradation, and wars. The accomplishments won by the heroic contributions of the working class and peasantry vanished in an onslaught of reaction. In what was the USSR, millions wish for socialism’s return.

This experience should stand as reminder to communists everywhere of understanding the great value of what we have, that the socialist counties should be treasured, and clarity about the differences between capitalism and socialism as well as between correct and incorrect, right and wrong.

In the U.S. there are quite a few leftists who reject dialectical and historical materialism, and instead have adopted the standpoint of subjective idealism. They take the view that if a socialist country is not exactly the way they want it to be – then it is not socialist. This is wrong and contrary to reality.

China and the world

The world is a better place for the existence of People’s China and the CPC. The victory of the Chinese revolution transformed the world. At one stroke, a fourth of humanity was liberated from the yoke of imperialism, took the socialist road, and began the journey to a society without classes: communism. This development alone changed the balance of world forces and weakened the position of the imperialist powers in a big way.

In 1949, the world was a different place. Much of the globe was under the rule of colonial powers who dominated the lives of hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. The Chinese revolution gave tremendous energy to the fight to end colonialism and neo-colonialism. It paved the path for the victory in Vietnam, Cuba and many other places. People everywhere want to be free to determine their own destiny. The example, and at times material assistance of China, was a major factor in the fight for independence and national liberation.

Today the continued existence of the Peoples Republic of China, as well as the other socialist counties are an important factor in the world communist movement and brighten the prospects for socialism on a world scale. It is a good thing that there is an alternative to imperialism.

Here in the U.S., all the contradictions in society are sharpening as the decline of imperialism picks up speed. Each day more people are looking to socialism as a potential solution to our problems.

Quite a few leaders of Freedom Road Socialist Organization have traveled to China, some many decades ago, and we look forward to building a closer relationship with the CPC. Marxism–Leninism has done great things for the people of China. It will do the same for the American people. Together, the peoples of the world can accomplish great things.

While China and the CPC have worked tirelessly for world peace, the same cannot be said of the rulers of the U.S. Wall Street and the Pentagon say that China is a strategic competitor, and they speak of war. This is something that we will always oppose. FRSO fully understands that socialist China wants peace, and we oppose each and every act of our government that is harmful to that end.

The people of the U.S., China, and indeed the entire world have a shared destiny. What happens to one of us, impacts all of us. We can stand together for a socialist tomorrow. It is a day that is sure to come.

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