🧵 on the significance of the October 1 anniversary and Qiao Collective joining @sov_media:

THE PROTEST FOR EMPIRE, NOT THE PEOPLE Behind the Molotovs and protest art, the Hong Kong demonstrations weren’t fighting colonialism, they were protecting it. Framed in the West as a struggle for democracy, the protests in fact advanced a deeply right-wing agenda: preserving

The Nobel Peace Prize has hit a new low. In a grotesque twist, the committee chose Venezuelan far-right opposition leader — and top US lackey — María Corina Machado. New piece by Ricardo Vaz from @venanalysis: 🔗 https://t.co/GjAOBNp9uV @VoxUmmah @venanalysis @qiaocollective

The Chinese people will no doubt remember the Nobel committee's insulting decision to reward liberal "dissident" Liu Xiaobo in 2008, after he supported the US invasion of Iraq and said China would need "300 years of [Western] colonialism" in order to modernize.

CHINA CALLED PALESTINE THE GATE OF ASIA In 1965, Mao Zedong told a Palestinian delegation: ‘You are the gate of the great continent. We are the rear.’ That moment wasn’t symbolic. It was strategic. For decades, China supported the Palestinian liberation struggle - not just in

Tomorrow (Sunday 5 October): After two years of genocide in Gaza, where is the path to peace and Palestinian liberation? Gaza has now endured two years of genocidal assault, with the Israeli regime openly pursuing a campaign of extermination and ethnic cleansing. The

Together we aim to pierce the veil of Western discursive hegemony and disinformation, bringing you unfiltered reporting from the frontlines of Fidel Castro’s “battle of ideas.” Please follow @sov_media and all our partners to support this vital work!

In that spirit, Qiao Collective is deeply honored to unite with our comrades in @venanalysis, @OrinocoTribune, @KawsachunNews, @VoxUmmah, @blkagendareport, and NAAM in a new anti-imperialist media network called Sovereign Media.

For that, the Chinese people have always felt an immense debt of gratitude to the intrepid journalists, educators, and artists who dared to tell their story to the world: from Edgar Snow and Agnes Smedley to Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois.

For almost that entire time, the Western corporate and colonial press had systematically suppressed or distorted any news coming out of China’s long-gestating revolution. Fortunately the laboring masses of the world had alternative sources.

With the imperialist war machine so over-extended, the Communist Party of China took just four years to defeat a US-backed comprador regime that it had previously fought for two decades at an extreme disadvantage.

A crucial condition for the revolution’s success was in turn the worldwide upsurge in anticolonial struggle immediately after WW2: in Algeria, Palestine, India, Malaya, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Korea among other theaters.

Today marks the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This epochal event was greeted with immediate enthusiasm not just in China but among oppressed peoples fighting for national liberation across the globe.

ANTI-IMPERIALIST COALITION SOVEREIGN MEDIA LAUNCHES TODAY Today, we launch Sovereign Media, an anti-imperialist coalition bringing together voices from the Global South and the Global North who refuse to bow to censorship or empire. From Black Agenda Report, Qiao Collective,

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To read more of Qiao’s analysis of the Chinese pandemic response, revisit our articles, How Chinese Socialism is Defeating the Pandemic, and Why Chinese Vaccine Internationalism Matters, from the Qiao archives:

If Covid was a rehearsal for future pandemics, many lessons can be gleaned from China’s experience. And the western left must analyze the role of the pandemic in abetting counterinsurgency and demoralization after the Black-led insurrection of 2020.

Zero Covid is proof that mass death and disability are not inevitable even in our densely interconnected world, and the pandemic demonstrated that the masses move history.

We didn't have time to cover it in the episode but want to emphasize China's uninterrupted progress in reaching their centenary goals—even one of the deadliest pandemics in history didn't stop China from abolishing extreme poverty and surpassing the US in life expectancy in 2021.

Despite the challenges that followed the end of Zero Covid, we emphasize China’s strides since 2020 in building a socialist healthcare system, improving the quality of life for everyday people, and sharing their expertise with the Global South.