The following interview with Montreal-based author, journalist and lecturer Arnold August describes Arnold’s 2023 visit to Southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region (Tibet) and Qinghai. Arnold discusses his visit to a boarding school in the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, where he toured the school, met with teachers and pupils, and asked a wide range … Continue reading Arnold August: slanders about Tibet/Xizang are designed to discredit Chinese socialism
We are pleased to reproduce extracts of the November 13, 2022, edition of Press TV’s show Spotlight on the current South China Sea tensions, with Canadian author/journalist Arnold August and Teheran-based anchor/producer Kaveh Taghvai. August focused on China, the BRICS alternative non-US dollar currency as a very significant challenge to US hegemony, and the US … Continue reading Arnold August: China’s rise is the West’s main fear
We are pleased to reproduce extracts from the May 21st edition of the Spotlight programme of Iran’s Press TV, in which Canadian activist and political analyst, focused on Latin America and China, Arnold August assesses the significance of the May 19th virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of the BRICS powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China … Continue reading Arnold August: BRICS expansion in the context of rising multipolarity
Embedded below is a clip of Canadian author and political scientist Arnold August, speaking at a virtual conference – Human Rights Today: Universal and Global? – organized by Central South University, Changsha, China, on February 27, 2022. Arnold addresses the accusations that China and Cuba are ‘undemocratic’, exposes how this label is weaponized by the … Continue reading Arnold August: Revolutionary democracy in China and Cuba has resulted in huge advances in human rights
The following article by Arnold August, originally published on CGTN, details Arnold’s 2023 tour of Xizang/Tibet, and contrasts the situation today – with extreme poverty having been eliminated and cutting edge infrastructure helping to solve some of the development problems presented by the province’s vast and rugged terrain – with that prevailing under the serf … Continue reading Witnessing Xizang: Serfdom to socialism with Chinese characteristics
Brazilian President Lula’s widely anticipated visit to China has now been rescheduled for April 11-14, following his recovery from the influenza and pneumonia that forced a postponement. Whilst a number of bilateral agreements are due to be signed during that visit, a scheduled business seminar between the two countries went ahead as planned, already resulting … Continue reading Video: China, Brazil move towards de-dollarizing trade
Ebrahim Raisi becoming the first Iranian head of state to visit China in two decades, at a time of significant regional and global changes, has naturally aroused considerable attention and comment. We reproduce below two discussions in which experts offer their analysis regarding the visit and its likely outcomes. In an episode of CGTN’s World … Continue reading China and Iran standing together against hegemonism
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Press TV, on July 2, 2022 an extensive interview was carried out by the Tehran-based channel’s anchor and producer Kaveh Taghvai with Arnold August of Montreal, and journalist Elijah Magnier of Marseille, France. We are pleased to reproduce extracts from the special anniversary edition of the Spotlight … Continue reading Press TV’s record countering disinformation against China
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 … Continue reading Statement opposing the propaganda war on China
The following statement has been initiated by Friends of Socialist China. You can add your name as an individual signatory using Google Forms. Once you do so, your name will appear on this page within a few hours. Organizations wishing to add their signatures to this statement should contact us at info@socialistchina.org We strongly condemn … Continue reading Statement condemning the OHCHR’s ‘Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China’
Use the linked Google Form to register as an individual or organizational supporter of Friends of Socialist China. We, Friends of Socialist China, aim to support the People’s Republic of China and to promote understanding of Chinese socialism. Why socialism? As Marxists, we believe that although capitalism has brought about unprecedented progress in the development … Continue reading Register as a supporter
