Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

On today's episode we have Ian Goodrum to talk about basically China, the Chinese response

to COVID-19, US imperial propaganda against China, anti-Asian racism, how to think through

some of the implications of what we're coining the new Cold War 2.0 rhetoric coming out

of the West toward China, China's response to that propaganda etc.

We cover a lot of really interesting and important issues surrounding the pandemic and how

the pandemic is being used by the imperialist and capitalist countries against the global

South developing countries and against China particularly.

A point that Ian makes in this episode maybe a couple times that I think is incredibly

important and worth reflecting on is that while the US government is trying to pay German

vaccine producers to make their vaccine US only and stealing supplies that are being shipped

to other countries and just being world-class asshole on the global stage during this pandemic,

China is going out there helping countries particularly those countries brutalized and

suppressed and oppressed by US sanctions like Iran and Venezuela helping those countries

get access to crucial equipment and medical expertise etc.

So regardless of your feelings on whether China is socialist or not, it's really important

that we understand how anti-Chinese propaganda is being employed by the capitalist West and

the imperialist West and how they're doing it and why they're doing it and it's important

for us to know that so that we can push back on it and help other people be educated on

exactly what's happening.

All in all it's a really informative important conversation and we hope people find value

in it.

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