At the Friends of Socialist China webinar on the propaganda war against China, held on Saturday 9 October 2021, the following statement was adopted.
We, the undersigned, are concerned about the escalating propaganda war being waged by the United States and its allies against the People’s Republic of China.
Although China in recent years has recorded some truly remarkable achievements in the realm of human rights – notably, eliminating extreme poverty and successfully containing Covid-19 – it has been subjected in the Western media to the most terrible slanders regarding its human rights record. Unsubstantiated accusations of genocide and forced labour in Xinjiang echo endlessly in Western media and governments, along with conspiracy theories about the origins of the pandemic.
This information warfare accompanies, complements and seeks to build public support for a dangerous New Cold War; it serves to distract from, and justify, the construction of nuclear alliances in the Pacific, the deployment of warships to the South China Sea, the fomenting of a new arms race, and assorted attempts to obstruct China’s economic rise.
We believe that this demonisation campaign is an obstacle to urgently-needed cooperation between the world’s major powers on the questions of climate change, pandemics, nuclear weapons, and economic development. Such cooperation cannot be built in an atmosphere of fear, distrust, enmity and slander.
Therefore we demand that Western governments adopt a principled and responsible approach to improving relations and deepening cooperation with China; and that media outlets cease their vilification campaign and adhere to journalistic principles of honesty and balanced reporting.
Initial signatories
- Chen Weihua, EU bureau chief, China Daily
- Li Jingjing, Reporter, CGTN
- Ben Norton, Assistant Editor, The Grayzone
- Daniel Dumbrill, Political analyst and broadcaster
- Radhika Desai, Professor, University of Manitoba; Convenor of the International Manifesto Group
- Danny Haiphong, Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China
- Jenny Clegg, Author, ‘China’s Global Strategy: Towards a Multipolar World’
- Michael Wong, Vice President, Veterans For Peace, San Francisco
- Kenny Coyle, Director, Praxis Press
- Qiao Collective
- Ben Chacko, Editor, Morning Star
- Julie Tang, Retired superior court judge, Pivot to Peace co-founder
- Mohammed Arif, General Secretary, British Afro-Asian Solidarity Organisation (BAASO)
- Keith Bennett, Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China
- Roland Boer, Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China
- Claudia Chaufan, Associate Professor, York University
- Michael Dunford, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex
- Miguel Figueroa, President, Canadian Peace Congress
- Alan Freeman, University of Manitoba
- Dr. Hugh Goodacre, Teaching Fellow, University College London; Director, Institute for Independence Studies
- Ian Goodrum, Senior editor and columnist, China Daily
- Peter Hogg, Writer, Bibliographer, Translator
- Elias Jabbour, Adjunct Professor of Economics, Rio de Janeiro State University
- Rania Khalek, Journalist and host, BreakThrough News
- Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report
- Hon. Alderman Mushtaq Lasharie CBE, Chairman/Founder, Third World Solidarity
- Kamal Majid, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University
- Carlos Martinez, Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China
- Chris Matlhako, Second Deputy General-Secretary, South African Communist Party
- John Riddell, Historian and activist
- Madison Tang, Coordinator of the CODEPINK China Is Not Our Enemy campaign
Organizational signatories
- Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War (Canada)
- Socialist Unity Party (US)
Signatories
| Name | Role/organization |
|---|---|
| Francis Chow | |
| Dan Smith | |
| Sonya Andermahr | CPB |
| Loy Heng Yu | student from Vineyard Services & Resources |
| Carrie Hedderwick | Delegate to Sheffield Trades Council/ Sec of South Yorks CPB |
| Zefeng Chen | |
| Jason Lee | Exporter |
| Bijan Sharifi | International high school art Teacher in Shanghai |
| Alvin Ja | independent |
| Stefania Fusero | |
| Guillermo Puyana | China Colombia Friendship Association, President |
| Hollis Higgins | Secretary, Veterans For Peace, Spokane Chapter #35 |
| Phoebe Tickner | |
| Kai Chiang | |
| Tyson Harris | The Industrial Workers Of The World |
| Suni O Grant | No organizations |
| Milad Maier | student |
| David Bureš | Writer, journalist, political activist |
| Paulius Eidukas | Lithuanian communist & activist, member of the Communist Party of Norway |
| Annanya Bhaskar | |
| K. Philippe Gendrault | |
| William Yukcheung Fung | voccc |
| Bethan Blake | Communist Party of Britain |
| Bob Oram | Chair Morning Star Management Committee |
| Justin Jutzeler | |
| D Wilson | |
| Jane Akatay | Editor and writer |
| Rindang Anggit Wibisono | Chemical Engineering Student |
| Octaviane Stefina Enggra G. | Student of Universitas Kristen Petra |
| Christian Féard | |
| Richard Keenan | |
| Richard Leung | Retired bank CEO & consultant |
| Raymond Chin Asang | |
| Jeffery Hull | Engineer and Activist |
| Josephine Angelina Harsoyo | |
| Dr Ping Hua | Founder/Director, Chinese Arts Southampton |
| Tian Zhao | Product designer at Flinks |
| Jorge Ruiz | UC Riverside Transfer Student |
| SY | |
| Erwin Franzen | retired, fomer journalist |
| Dr George Mickhail | Professor of Accounting |
| MR STEVEN J HANDFORD | SEN Teacher. Newcastle. |
| Robert Gerold | |
| Michael Wongsam | Branch Secretary/Labour Party |
| Dio Affriza | Worker |
| Zuzanna Zak | |
| Alexandros Schulman | Socialist and activist |
| Seth Goddard | |
| Tova Fry | |
| Maciej Przylecki | |
| David Smokler | League of Revolutionaries for a New America |
| JJH van den Broek | |
| Zayara | student at MAHE |
| Markus Keaney | Chair, Bedfordshire & East Buckinghamshire Communist Party of Britain |
| Manuel Iglesias-Guerrero | Médico |
| Yunfan Hao | |
| Tara May | |
| Michael Kramer | President, Veterans For Peace / Chapter 021 (Northern NJ) |
| Jeanine Maland retired teacher; activist | |
| Gregory Elich | Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea |
| Andrew Lin | |
| Amodani Gariba | Chairman, The Nkrumahist Circle |
| Gabriella Alexander | Freelance ESL tutor and translator |
| G Vandervort | |
| Camara Starks | |
| Joan Mao | |
| David Elvar | Author |
| Matt Widdowson | |
| Tony Kinder | University Professor |
| Christian Yahya | |
| Mitchell Shore | Policy Analyst |
| Ng Kong Hung | VP/ Sun Cheong Pte |
| hira singh | |
| Doug Nicholls | General Secretary General Federation of Trade Unions, UK. |
| Callum Joseph Wilson | Member of Communist Party USA |
| Arnold August | Author/Journalist |
| Magnar Husby | penionered teacher, stayed in China 6 weeks, studied Chinese history, especiallay the warlord period from 1911 to 1949. |
| Robert Svorinich | |
| Ed Burley | |
| Capitalist countries leaded by us imperialism tried to condemn china | |
| Wendy Emmett | Communist Party of Britain |
| Brandon Walley | artist/activist |
| Joel Wendland-Liu | |
| Annamaria Artner | political economist |
| Louie Lurati | |
| James Darsley | Undergraduate at University of Cambridge |
| Sunil Kumar Banerjee | Veteran |
| Rabiha Antar | |
| Darius Diogenes Logos Xristos | HIM Imperator divi filius aei Augustus |
| Anna Chen | Writer and broadcaster |
| Stefan Langenborg | |
| Eric Struch | Freedom Road Socialist Organization |
| Ben Maen | Communist Party of Britain |
| Vivek | |
| Zhong | |
| Joshua Jenkins | Worker |
| J B Rimmer | Customer Relations |
| Paul Lookman | E4ditor, Geopolitiek in context |
| Stephen David | A link in humanity |
| Phillip Courneyeur | |
| Javier Telletxea | Hunan Normal University |
| Ezio Mao | Director, IT industry |
| Madeleine Brierley | |
| Tomohiro Maeda | |
| Dmitri Sotnikov | |
| ML Corvidelle | Comrade Birb Podcast, Online Educator |
| Nadeem | |
| Ben Davis | N.C.P |
| Thomas To | Retiree |
| Peta Elmes | Horizons Specialized Services |
| Ruipeng Li | Student at CUNY |
| Dr Stephen Wilkinson | International Institute for the Study of Cuba |
| Revd Ray Gaston | Team Vicar, Church of St Chad and St Mark, Parish of Central Wolverhampton |
| James Barratt | |
| David Müller | |
| Magnus kjærgaard | Student |
| Emad Gharavi | |
| Terry Woo | |
| David Thomas | Chair Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association (CCFA) of Niagara |
| Charles McKelvey | Writer/Substack |
| Francoise Hembert | |
| Simon | |
| Changlin Zhao | College Student |
| ADNAN AKFIRAT | Chairman of Turkish Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association |
| vic | na |
| Andre Sabourin | Anti-Imperialism |
| rageh ali | |
| COLIN CRAIG | Historian |
| Prof. Claudia Chaufan | Associate Professor, York University |
| Francis yeung | |
| Dee Knight | |
| Susan Mah | |
| Youri Smouter | host of 1+1 at Yuri Muckraker at youtube |
| John Fox-Cameron | |
| Alex Southern | London Clarion Cycle Club |
| Nigel Green | Retired activist in the PCS Trade Union |
| Bill Meyer | Michigan Peace Council |
| Gendo Ikari | |
| Dean Peters | pensioner |
| Joseph Thompson | CPUSA |
| Luciana Bohne | Emerita Professor, Edinboro University |
| LIZ REMMERSWAAL | World beyond war Aotearoa New Zealand |
| Taylar Morrison | Invasive Species Officer |
| Kay Strathus | none |
| Renate Bridenthal | Retired Professor of History, CUNY |
| Wiliam Davis | Attorney/Law Offices of WO Davis |
| Michal Nowicki | Polish Worker on emigration in France. Youtube channel Rebirth of communism and Odrodzenie Komunizmu |
| Aya Young | Marxist-Leninist |
| Mark Andersen | Worker |
| Geoff Lee | |
| PAUL BRAGAGLIA | INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATOR & WRITER |
| Kevin James | Student |
| Joseph M. Herosy | Massachusetts Teachers Assicaiation, Boston DSA, PSL |
| Stefan Schmid | |
| Bernard Harries | Retired concerned citizen |
| Roger Annis | writer, Canada |
| leanne lindsay | |
| Yunfang Yu | Engineer |
| May | Anti- imperialist |
| michael murray | Labour Party |
| Holt, John Paul | Principal, School of Vocation (HK) |
| Andreas | |
| Helen Whooley | CFMEU Union Teacher |
| Al Sargis | Google Group Moderator: China Study Group Boston |
| Christer Lundgren | Journalist, Sweden |
| David Bracewell | |
| Dr. Kim Eng Koo | Member/ Rocky Mount Racial Justice Group |
| Mr Michael J M Quinn | |
| Christian Shingiro | Show Host/The Socially Radical Guitarist |
| Alexander Toufexis | |
| Paul S. Graham | Videographer |
| Steve Roddy | |
| Elia Ansaloni | Chemist and writer |
| Harry Targ | Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism |
| Arnold Kawano | Attorney; member, National Lawyers Guild (U.S.); Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers (U.K.) |
| Jamie Lang | |
| David Cooper | Retired community engagement professional |
| Jerry Path | |
| Simón Sánchez | Student |
| Don Mervyn | |
| Keith Heywood | |
| Michael | |
| Julia Defalco | Student |
| Kate Lattimore | |
| Mark Earp | |
| Mia | Social work |
| Haoruo Zhang | |
| Rachel Pirani | |
| RAFAEL QUEIROZ ALVES | Master’s Degree Student – Researcher/Unesp |
| Geoff Jones | Long term resident of Hong Kong |
| Mark Prenter | geologist |
| Ghani Abdul | |
| BabaClay Hathor | |
| Marco Mucciarelli | Student |
| Alexander Stolz | University student |
| Connor Spence | |
| olivia chu | socialist |
| Wei Weng LEONG | Retired |
| Romina Beitseen | |
| Tyler Theodore Soubie | American concerned citzen |
| HH Ng | |
| Prof Mobo Gao | University of Adelaide |
| Emily | |
| meeling wee | |
| Yick Foon WONG | |
| Jon Harrington | |
| Seshadri Srinivas | Anti-war activist |
| Peter Purich | Technical Writer, retired |
| YF | |
| E.E. Tinguely | Writer |
| Samuel Alvarez | |
| Orlando Campopiano | |
| Calvin Ho | Tsinghua University |
| Doug Taggart | |
| Suzanne Ho | ASEAN citizen |
| Grace Ng Listkowski | |
| Ian Sun | |
| Ange Power | Homemaker |
| yewlay Tan | |
| Qi Guang | |
| Felipe Alvarado Plata | History Student / National University of Colombia |
| Cian de Bhaldraithe | |
| Kelly Kwon | |
| Kwan | |
| Lily | Law student |
| William Grosh | |
| Georg Vavra | |
| Wolfgang Masarié | retired Landesmusikschulwerk Upper Austria |
| Paolo Cruzalegui | Activst & Writer, Los Ronderos de las Redes |
| Rasigan Maharajh | Chief Director, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation |
| Matthew Cahn | Consultant Wijja.co |
| Scott Goldie | Individual |
| Victor Koppe | Lawyer, student History |
| KK Wren | |
| Camilla Gaia Miotto | PhD. candidate in Political Economy at SWUFE |
| Kevan Nelson | Regional Secretary UNISON North West |
| Lekx Imers | |
| christopher kelly | |
| Charles Weston Califf | American Vanguard |
| Jodie Martin | |
| Peter Karl Fleissner | TU-Wien retired |
| Jonathan Smith | None |
| JM Considine | |
| Daniel Knapp | |
| Josefina Arcos | Pensioner |
| Garret M Hayes | |
| Kevin Patrick McCann | Kevin McCann |
| Adi | Activist |
| S M Baichoo | AMB Property Lettings |
| James De Burghe | Member, Society for Anglo China Understanding, Nanning, China |
| Sainte | Student |
| Paul Ow | Retiree |
| Man Lee | Publisher / wenyahonline.com |
| Sami Ghidini | |
| Marius Ebener | |
| Pete Foley | Member, CPB |
| Colin Thomson | |
| Adam Staudacher | ANSWER Coalition |
| Chris Morosini | |
| Thomas Tarrants | Activist |
| Keith O’Brien | DKP |
| Francis James C. Pagdanganan | NA |
| James Lee | Investor |
| Dhruv Golani | |
| Michael Swartzbeck | a.k.a. “Mike Flugennock”, political cartoonist, Washington DC |
| HH | Irish citizen in solidarity with the Chinese people |
| Gabriel Rockhill | Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University |
| Deniz Kızılçeç | Canut International Publishers |
| Jürgen Bürger | – |
| Joe Iosbaker | Freedom Road Socialist Organization |
| Ian leggat | |
| Andy | |
| Miguel San Vicente | |
| Jean Laplante | Self |
| Sutan Jang | |
| Shirley Pate | Writer, activist |
| Alison Murray | |
| Denise Shin | Retiree |
| Harbin Humphries | Independent |
| Maure Briggs | |
| Maxwell Schwarz | CPUSA member, student |
| Chun Luong | Fitness Instructor |
| Marie Lynam | Labour Party and GMB (personal capacity) |
| Ron Brown | Communist Party |
| Nick Baker | |
| Scott Pimpsner | |
| Roberto Torre | Healthcare professional Italy |
| Sergio Varela | Student & Software Translator |
| Sonia Yang | |
| Iris Yau FRSA FHEA | Educator and Curator |
| Niels Duus Nielsen | |
| Andrew Fung | |
| Jeffrey Jin | |
| Kwame Appiah Kubi | CEO of Earth Care Ghana |
| Kwok Fung | Retired |
| Mark Charles Rosenzweig | |
| Giacomo Moriconi | Translator, Geopolitical observer |
| Tristyn Waterman | worker |
| Facundo Coelho | activist from Uruguay |
| Xiaoming Guo | Retired |
| Sunil Anand | |
| sarah scott | |
| Jonathan Herrin | Student |
| Frank Willems | Co-editor, chinasquare.be |
| Raven E. Blake | |
| Iain Inglis | Permanent resident, P.R.C.; presenter, Hainan Television; Member, C.P.B. |
| Nadeem Lawji | |
| David Gamble | |
| Mário | |
| Adam | Concerned US Citizen from Utah |
| Ayden Strunk | PSL (party for socialism and liberation) |
| Robert Laffin | US citizen in support of peaceful bilateral international relations. |
| Cooper Johnson | Retail Worker |
| Reb Z. | |
| Angela Rong | Student |
| Linda King | Community activitis |
| Simon McGuinness | |
| Dave P | Worker |
| Aster Eckert | Student |
| Christopher Murry | Librarian |
| Jessica Ryan | Concerned US citizen |
| Sasha Gervais | |
| Jenny Lam | Artist, Chicago |
| Damien Marsic | Principal scientist, Porton Biologics |
| Yi Li | Lecturer, The University of Sheffield |
| Evan Richards | Young Communist League |
| Katherine Cui | concerned Chinese Australian |
| Josephine Bau | Strategic Planning Specialist |
| Connie Woo | |
| John Leehane | |
| Daniel J. Brown | Rite of Strings |
| David Harris | |
| Alex Adisorn | |
| Jordan K | |
| Zhu Gong | |
| June Patterson | Communist Party of Canada – Fredericton Club / 2019, 2021 CPC Candidate for Fredericton |
| Christy Franklin | US citizen, activist, socialist, and a friend of China |
| Jack Shneidman | |
| Handsun Xiao | Family Doctor, Montreal |
| Robert Green | Retired |
| David Erick Altimari | Revolutionary Marxist Leninist |
| John Thompson Parker | Coordinator, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice |
| Vincent Hui | International Socalist |
| Tom Wickham | Film-maker |
| Angela Gao | |
| Miguel Figueroa | President, Canadian Peace Congress |
| Colerain McCardle | PCUSA |
| Scott Hegarty | Teacher |
| Ron Judd | |
| Ted Tripp | Retired. Part-time work with CareerSource Gulf Coast, Florida |
| Carlos L Garrido | Editor at Midwestern Marx |
| Andre Powell | Socialist Unity Party |
| Peter Goselin | Labor Attorney |
| RuheForst | TRUE |
| John Beard | |
| Chris Larsson | Activist and political observer |
| Eddie Liger Smith | Midwestern Marx Founder and Editor |
| Albano Coelho | IT consultant |
| Chin K Seah | Retired Structural Engineer |
| Albert Ang Chun | |
| Maria Fe Celi | |
| Torbjørn Melbye | |
| Robert Monks | Clerical worker |
| Masao Suzuki | Professor of Economics, Skyline College |
| Wong Mun Lai | Engineer |
| Wong Mun Lai | |
| Dong Long | Legal Professional |
| Manuel Kiener | |
| Stan Squires | Retired Health Care Worker |
| Mario Simeunovic | Journalist |
| Betty | |
| Z. Sullivan | None |
| johntyrrell3@icloud.com | |
| Dr Agnes Kory | |
| Michael Pollock | |
| MIck Kelly | Editor, Fight Back! |
| Henrik Niemeyer | |
| John Frederick Maryon | New Communist Party |
| Elizabeth Burton | Retired Doctor |
| Andy Brooks | General Secretary, New Communist Party of Britain |
| Patxi Suarez | Txinarekin.com Basque Country |
| Winfred Liu | |
| Dakota | Canadian citizen |
| Ian Furness | |
| Ocean Marks | Software Engineer/Musician |
| Daniel Sihombing | Kristen Hijau |
| Kevin Lindemann | |
| Arsenio Panuelos | President/ AP Oriental |
| Hassan Abdelhady | |
| Laurence Wright | |
| Yuxiang Han | Accountant, Australia |
| Matt Palmer | Sydney, Australia |
| Bhavik Grover | Publisher at The Revoltist |
| Shane Short | |
| James J Bush | |
| Gary Walton | Communist |
| Jean Pestieau | Prof.em., UCLouvain, Belgium |
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Totally unacceptable heinous propaganda by USA against China. My total and sincere solidarity with China! Olga Naccache Film director. Lebanon
As someone who grew up during the McCarthy period and lived through the last Cold War, I see through imperialism’s distortions and lies.
The west looks safe with terrorists and fundamentalists. It is proved through their actions in afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine, and their association with drug mafias in some countries of latin america. But they feel unsafe with China, Cuba, Russia etc. Therefore they make evil propagonda against these countries, specifically against China which is the leading economic and stable power the globe experiences. But truth is that China doesnot involve in any war as the US does. So China is a guarantor of peace in the world. On the other hand, the leader of the west the US is always remaining busy with wars against any country it dislikes. Now they use western media plateform to spread disinformation, misinformation and lies against China as once they did against the USSR. This villification of the west against China should be stopped and protested peacefully. We want peace,mutual cooperation among countries. we want to fight planet’s common enemy climate change. Better the west should fight this global warming so that civilisation sustains.