CCF News Bulletin for Sat, Dec 16th
 
Canada-China Focus
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National Security   Universities

Canadian Association of University Teachers: "President’s message: The uneasy history of academics and Canadian security services"

Published: Dec 2023
Written by: Peter McInnis

Recent political squabbles over alleged federal election interference and external threats posed by hostile state governments have led to drafting of legislative remedies. The proposed Foreign Influence Transparency Registry (FITR) would require all Canadians, including academics, to disclose collaborations with international counterparts. While consultations on the registry do not single out any one nation, it is clear the giant panda in the room is China.
Anti-Racism

NPR: "Most Asian Americans say they face discrimination and are often treated as foreigners"

Published: Nov 30, 2023
Written by: Ayana Archie

Seventy-eight percent of Asian American adults said they've been treated as a foreigner, even if they were born in the U.S., including having their names mispronounced, being told to go back to their country, being scorned for speaking a language other than English and facing assumptions that they can't speak English.
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Environment, Peace,   Friendship

The Conversation: "COP28: Why China’s clean energy boom matters for global climate action"

Published: Dec 10, 2023
Written by: Xu Yi-chong

"The COP28 climate talks began well, buoyed by November’s Sunnyland Statement between China and the United States, the second largest emitter. At previous climate talks, US-China cooperation has been lacking. But this time, they’re largely on the same page.
The statement outlined joint support for global tripling of renewable energy by 2030, tackling methane and plastic pollution, and a transition away from fossil fuels."
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The Guardian: "Cop28: China ‘would like to see agreement to substitute renewables for fossil fuels'"

Published: Dec 9, 2023
Written by: Fiona Harvey

"Xie Zhenhua, China’s climate envoy, would not be explicit on whether China supported or opposed a phase-out of fossil fuels, which more than 100 governments are pushing for at crucial climate talks, the Cop28 UN summit.
But he did indicate that he and his delegation were engaging positively to try to find a compromise on the contentious issue, which has become the focal point of the fortnight-long negotiations, now reaching their final stages in Dubai and scheduled to end on Tuesday."

 

 

 

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Peoples Dispatch: "Activists detail frontline struggles against US militarism in Northeast Asia"

Published: Dec 13, 2023
Written by: Alice Kim

The Asia-Pacific region has once again become a hotspot in Washington’s new Cold War, as Biden’s Indo-Pacific Strategy has been dead set on forging a new anti-China bloc across the region

 

 

 

Against the Current: "Opposing U.S. Militarization in the Asia-Pacific While Seeing China’s Emerging Imperialism"

Published: Dec 2, 2023
Federico Fuentes interviews Au Loong-yu

"Federico Fuentes: One of the biggest challenges facing the left is coming to grips with China’s status within the global capitalist system. China’s meteoric rise has led many to ask whether China remains part of the Global South or has become an imperialist country. How should we understand China’s status today?"
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Xinhua: "Alumni celebrate 50th anniversary of Canada-China Scholars' Exchange Program"

Published: Dec 8, 2023

 Alumni of the Canada-China Scholars' Exchange Program (CCSEP) and officials from both countries gathered at the Chinese embassy here on Wednesday to celebrate the program on its 50th anniversary.
Giving a welcome speech, Chinese Ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu said the program stands as a testament to the development of people-to-people exchanges between China and Canada. Cong said the alumni have become bridges for China-Canada exchanges in their fields.
International Relations
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Al Jazeera: "Why did China’s state media make a sudden turn towards friendlier US ties?"

Published: Dec 5, 2023
Written by: Frederik Kelter

Control over China’s media narrative seen in swift turn towards US friendship ahead of Biden-Xi meeting at APEC summit. But the cordial coverage is unlikely to last.

 

 

 

Foreign Affairs: "America and China Are Not Yet in a Cold War. but they must not wind up in something even worse"

Published: Nov 23, 2023
Written by: Wang Jisi

"The original Cold War ended in December 1991 with the disintegration of the Soviet Union. But the idea that the world is witnessing the early phases of a new cold war—this time, a strategic competition between China and the United States—has taken hold in many quarters, especially in Washington."
Books

Verso: "Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour"

Edited by: Ivan Franceschini, Kevin Lin, Nicholas Loubere and Christian Sorace
Published 2022
A century of complex relations between Communists and workers in China.

In 2023, an anonymous collective translated the book into Chinese. You can find the unabridged translation available for free download at this link.
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In 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated a century of existence. Since the Party’s humble beginnings in the Marxist groups of the Republican era to its current global ambitions, one thing has not changed for China’s leaders: their claim to represent the vanguard of the Chinese working class. Spanning from the night classes for workers organised by student activists in Beijing in the 1910s to the labour struggles during the 1920s and 1930s; from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution to the social convulsions of the reform era to China’s global push today, this book reconstructs the contentious history of labour in China from the early twentieth century to this day (and beyond). This will be achieved through a series of essays penned by scholars in the field of Chinese society, politics, and culture, each one of which will revolve around a specific historical event, in a mosaic of different voices, perspectives, and interpretations of what constituted the experience of being a worker in China in the past century.
Wishing you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!