https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/ebc8de34-5f53-4fa4-b4dc-0d4494b20b4d 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, Yan Hairong, Barry Sautman, Max Ajl, Sit Tsui, and Tings Chak discuss various topics related to China’s internal and external policies in a panel titled, “Chinese Development in Global Perspective.” Each speaker delivered a talk on the panel moderated by Qiao Collective. • YAN HAIRONG AND BARRY SAUTMAN – China, Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and Globalized Modes of Accumulation • MAX AJL – The Early Chinese Path as a Model for Third World Development • SIT TSUI – Confronting the Triple Trap in China • TINGS CHAK – Poverty Alleviation in China • 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 ‣ https://peoplesforum.org/event/china-and-the-left-a-socialist-forum/ ABOUT ‣ Qiao Collective is a collective of diaspora Chinese challenging U.S. aggression and shining a light on Chinese socialism and internationalism. WEBSITE ‣ http://qiaocollective.com Yan Hairong teaches at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include China-Africa links, racialization of labor, China’s agrarian change, and collective and cooperative rural economy. She is the author of New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China (Duke U Press 2008) and has co-authored East Mountain Tiger, West Mountain Tiger: China, Africa, the West and “Colonialism” and has contributed to IPES-Food (till December 2020) and the food sovereignty network in China. Barry Sautman, a political scientist and lawyer at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, has worked on ethnic politics in China, including ethnic policies, the Tibet and Xinjiang issues, and relations between Hong Kong people and mainland Chinese. He co-authored with Yan Hairong, Localists and ‘Locusts’ in Hong Kong: Creating a Yellow-Red Peril Discourse (Baltimore: University of Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, 2015). They also research China/Africa political economy and interactions between Chinese and Africans, most recently publishing 中国在非洲: 话语与现实 (China in Africa: Discourses and Reality) (北京: 社会科学文献出版社2017). Sit Tsui (Jade Margaret) is an associate professor at the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest University, China. She is board member of Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA), and one of the Founding Members of the Global University for Sustainability. She has been actively involved in the rural reconstruction movement in China since 2000. Tings Chak 翟庭君 is an internationalist activist and artist, trained in architecture. After emerging from migrant justice movements in Toronto, Canada, she has been working with diverse working class movements across the Global South. She is currently based between São Paulo and Shanghai, contributing to popular political education projects and crafting designs towards a socialist future. She leads the Art Department of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Her current research focuses on the art of national liberation struggles, and the horizons that gives for the movements of today. Max Ajl is a postdoctoral fellow at the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University and an associated researcher at the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment. His articles have been published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and Globalizations. He is an associate editor at Agrarian South. His book, A People’s Green New Deal, was published in 2021 with Pluto Press. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:44:00 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/ebc8de34-5f53-4fa4-b4dc-0d4494b20b4d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.