📆 Sunday 12 April 2026, 3pm Britain, 10am US Eastern, 10pm China
In spite of several years of intense propaganda and misinformation about China in the media, large numbers of young people in the West are going through “a very Chinese time in their lives”, not least because they are seeing China’s extraordinary achievements in poverty reduction, technological innovation, ecological protection, infrastructure development and more.
This webinar, organised by Friends of Socialist China and supported by the International Manifesto Group, will explore how these achievements are a product of China’s social, political and economic system: socialism. The speakers will argue that China’s progress would simply not have been possible within a framework of capitalist rule, and that the country’s experience provides a powerful example of the superiority of socialism in terms of delivering for the people and for the planet.
Confirmed speakers
- George Galloway (Former MP, leader of Workers Party of Britain)
- Li Jingjing (Journalist and political commentator, CGTN)
- Chen Weihua (Former China Daily EU bureau chief)
- Ben Norton (Editor, Geopolitical Economy Report)
- Danny Haiphong (Geopolitical analyst and journalist)
- Tings Chak (Asia co-coordinator, Tricontinental Institute)
- Qiao Collective (Diaspora Chinese media collective)
- Chair: Ileana Chan (Host of the Global Majority for Peace podcast)
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