Political Economies of Chinese Socialism | China and the Left

At the conference China and the Left: A Socialist Forum held on September 18, 2021 hosted by Qiao Collective at The People’s Forum in New York City, Chris Matlhako, Elias Khalil Jabbour, Zhun Xu, and Bikrum Gill speak on a panel titled, “Political Economies of Chinese Socialism.” Each speaker delivered a talk on the panel moderated by Qiao Collective.
• ELIAS KHALIL JABBOUR - The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of Chinese Market Socialism
• CHRIS MATLHAKO - Africa and its Progressive Ties with China
• ZHUN XU - China as a Challenge to Capitalism
• BIKRUM GILL - China and Non-Western Sovereign Reclamation: A Violation of the Elemental Rule of Imperialism
• MODERATOR: QIAO COLLECTIVE
The conference was a one-day convening of organizers, scholars, and journalists whose work grapples with questions of Chinese socialism, Western imperialism, Global South internationalism, and the renewed Cold War consensus taking hold in the West. Speakers and events analyzed current trends in U.S.-China relations, Chinese development, and international relations through a socialist, anti-imperialist lens. The conference provided a space for those invested in challenging the rise in U.S.-led imperialist aggression on China to meet, strategize, and discuss. The convening was co-sponsored by Monthly Review, The People’s Forum, and CODEPINK.
Read about the conference China and the Left here ‣ peoplesforum.org/event/china-...
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Elias Jabbour is associate professor at the School of Economics at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Author of several books on Chinese socialism, nowadays he is one of the most prestigious Latin American intellectuals.
Zhun Xu teaches economics at John Jay College. His recent book From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty was published by Monthly Review Press.
Bikrum Gill is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, where he is also a core faculty in the ASPECT doctoral program. His research interests are generally situated at the intersection of international political economy, political ecology, agrarian studies, decolonial studies, critical race theory, and global history.
Chris Matlhako is the 2nd Deputy General Secretary of the South African Communist Party - elected at 14th Congress in 2017; the General-Secretary of the Friends of Cuba Society - South Africa (solidarity platform with Cuba and Latin American progressive states); former Secretary for International Relations of the South African Communist Party; Working Group Member of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties (IMCWP); Executive Member of World Peace Council (WPC); and coordinator of the Africa Left Network Forum (ALNEF) - a platform of progressive left formations on the continent to advance leftwing and progressive views.