Online event – Saturday 25 July 2020 from 14:00-16:00 (BST)
The meeting will see some leading analysts from China, the US, Britain and Brazil come together to discuss how to counter the New Cold War.
Please register (for free) on Eventbrite here, as spaces in the Zoom room will be limited.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Medea Benjamin (Co-founder, CODEPINK)
Wang Wen (Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute, Renmin University)
Qiao Collective
Martin Jacques (Author: ‘When China Rules the World’)
Vijay Prashad (Executive Director, Tricontinental Institute)
Yang Hanyi (Senior editor, Guancha.cn)
Ajamu Baraka (Black Agenda Report)
Margaret Kimberley (Black Agenda Report)
Kate Hudson (General Secretary, CND)
Jenny Clegg (Author: ‘China’s Global Strateg’)
John Ross (Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute, Renmin University)
Elias Jabbour (Associate Professor, Rio de Janeiro State University)
Organised by: No to the New Cold War
ORGANISERS’ STATEMENT
A New Cold War on China is against the interests of humanity
We note the increasingly aggressive statements and actions being taken by the US government in regard to China. These constitute a threat to world peace and are an obstacle to humanity successfully dealing with extremely serious common issues which confront it such as climate change, control of pandemics, racist discrimination and economic development.
We therefore believe that any New Cold War would run entirely counter to the interests of humanity. Instead we stand in favour of maximum global cooperation in order to tackle the enormous challenges we face as a species.
We therefore call upon the US to step back from this threat of a Cold War and also from other dangerous threats to world peace it is engaged in including: withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement; withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Accords; and its increasing disengagement from UN bodies. The US should also stop pressuring other countries to adopt such dangerous positions.
We support China and the US basing their relations on mutual dialogue and centring on the common issues which unite humanity.
The above organising statement is also available on the No to the New Cold War website here, in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Filipino, French, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
