On Sunday 12 April, Friends of Socialist China hosted a webinar on the subject of Socialist Chinamaxxing: How China’s achievements are a product of socialism.
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 explored how these achievements are a product of China’s social, political and economic system: socialism. The speakers argued 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.
The speakers were:
- Li Jingjing (Journalist and political commentator, CGTN)
- Tings Chak (Asia co-coordinator, Tricontinental Institute)
- George Galloway (Former MP, leader of Workers Party of Britain)
- Danny Haiphong (Geopolitical analyst and journalist)
- Ben Norton (Editor, Geopolitical Economy Report)
- Chen Weihua (Former China Daily EU bureau chief)
- Qiao Collective (Diaspora Chinese media collective)
- Ileana Chan (Host of the Global Majority for Peace podcast)
- Keith Bennett (Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China)
- Chair: Carlos Martinez (Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China)
Embedded below is the full event stream, followed by the individual speeches.