How China’s century of humiliation’ determines its response to today’s Western imperialist aggression

Interview with historian Carl Zha, A Socialist In Canada, Dec 8, 2022

Soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army of China

This interview (75 minutes) was 0riginally broadcast on ‘The New Atlas’, the YouTube broadcast channel of Brian Berletic, on Dec 6, 2022. Carl Zha is a Chinese-American historian. He hosts a podcast on Patreon and you can follow him here on Twitter.

The interview is an extremely informative review of China’s ‘century of humiliation’ (1839 to 1949). Those painful and tragic 110 years commenced with the first ‘Opium War’ waged by Britain from 1839 to 1842 (Wikipedia). At the time, British traders were the largest drug dealers of the day. The degenerate British government and military waged a war against the Qing dynasty in China during those years in order to enforce the ‘freedom to trade’ of opium in China by British capitalists. Topics covered in the interview include:

* China’s “Century of Humiliation” at the hands of Western powers and how it connects directly to U.S.-Chinese tensions today.
* How the U.S. has repeatedly made treaties and agreements with China only to betray them for the ske of U.S. commercial and military interests
* The West’s historical use of Hong Kong and Taiwan as hubs to destabilize and dominate over the rest of China
* The historical use by Western imperialist powers of China for cheap labor and for markets to exploit
* The clear need for present-day China to have a socialist social system and a strong military in order to protect its people from foreign interference and exploitation

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The U.S. information war against China heats up with increasing attacks on Chinese-American researchers, interview with historian Carl Zha, broadcast on Covert Action Bulletin, Nov 30, 2022  (53 minutes)

Covert Action Bulletin is the weekly podcast of Covert Action Magazine, with hosts Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa. In this episode, the program examines the information and tech war being waged against China and how the lives of Chinese Americans, in particular Chinese American researchers, are being upended by surveillance and racist witch hunts.