Chinese Socialist Organizer on Why New Cold War is Dangerously Escalating

Today we’ll be doing the second part in our series on the US-China Cold War. In January, we spoke with Tom Crean of US Socialist Alternative about the Cold War. Today we'll be talking with Chong, a socialist organizer from China and an editor of the dissident website Chinaworker.info.

Today, the world is increasingly shaped by two imperialist superpowers - the US and China -  which are locked in an increasingly intense competition for domination of resources and influence in a global economy characterized by falling profits and rising instability. Inter-imperialist conflict is not a temporary historical aberration, but rather the norm of capitalism — a norm that is reasserting itself as the era of neoliberal globalization with the US as an uncontested super power has come to an end.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked the start of the  first “hot” war of the new Cold War era, with the US and Western Imperialist powers on one side using Ukraine as a proxy for their interests and China backing Russia on the other. Neither imperialist camp waging this war has the interests of the working class in Ukraine, Russia, or anywhere, at heart. This conflict was the first of more to come, with further devastating proxy wars likely to spring up across the globe. A war between the US and China over Taiwan, which US military brass have openly acknowledged they’re preparing for, would threaten even greater horrors.

How are these conflicts likely to develop? What have been the impacts of recent mass protests in China against Xi’s regime? How can we build a united international movement to end imperialist war and exploitation once and for all?

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