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11/05/2025

Ever since its founding, the People’s Republic of China has endured an onslaught of Western propaganda about its alleged human rights abuses. More recently, US fearmongering has also turned to China’s supposed influence operations directed at both the West and the rest of the Global South, particularly through apps such as TikTok. It’s a multi-front information war expertly contrived to divert attention from the US itself.

China has decided it’s had enough and is striking back in kind. Far from crude “whataboutism,” it’s doing so through exhaustively researched reports compiled at both official and semi-official levels. It’s likely you’ve heard absolutely nothing about them through Western mainstream media, and that’s by design.

Join us as we break down two of these documents: the PRC State Council’s report on “Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024,” and the Xinhua Institute’s analysis of “Colonization of the Mind: The Means, Roots, and Global Perils of US Cognitive Warfare.” As we’ll find, they’re not just crude inversions of US propaganda techniques. They’re meant to be serious tools for anti-imperialists to understand our enemy and fortify ourselves against their ever-evolving ideological offensives.

10/18/2025

After 130 years of separation caused by Japanese colonization and U.S. intervention, Taiwan stands at the frontline of a new Cold War; not by choice, but by imperial design. This is not the story of a democratic island under threat; it is the story of how Taiwan was turned into a military outpost, first by Japan, then by the United States. It was once part of China, tied through migration, culture, and resistance. But after the Communist victory in 1949, the U.S. blocked reunification; armed a dictatorship; and built a Cold War narrative that still shapes how the world sees Taiwan today. From U.S. warships to billion-dollar arms deals, Taiwan is now central to Washington’s plans to contain China. But the left must see through the slogans. This is not a battle for freedom; it is a battle over sovereignty, history, and who gets to define Asia’s future. To learn more, please check out our extensive Taiwan resource list: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/taiwan

10/14/2025

Behind the Molotovs and protest art, the Hong Kong demonstrations weren’t fighting colonialism, they were protecting it.

Framed in the West as a struggle for democracy, the protests in fact advanced a deeply right-wing agenda: preserving Hong Kong’s British-imposed legal system, aligning with U.S. empire, and serving as a strategic tool to undermine China from within.

This explainer strips away the liberal romanticism and Western left confusion revealing a protest movement that openly collaborated with the same U.S. officials who attack liberation struggles across the Global South.

To equate Hong Kong’s protest movement with Palestine, Haiti, or Minneapolis is not solidarity, it’s misrepresentation and betrayal.

True liberation is measured not by the slogans shouted, but by the systems dismantled and by who, in the end, benefits.

To learn more, please check out our Hong Kong reading list from 2020: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/hong-kong

Today, October 1, marks the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This epochal event was g...
10/01/2025

Today, October 1, marks the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This epochal event was greeted with immediate enthusiasm not just in China but among oppressed peoples fighting for national liberation across the globe. And a crucial condition for the revolution’s success was, in turn, the worldwide upsurge in anticolonial struggle immediately after World War II. With the imperial war machine over-extended in theaters as varied as Algeria, Palestine, India, Malaya, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Korea, the Communist Party of China took just four years to defeat a regime that it had previously fought for two decades at an extreme disadvantage.

For almost that entire time, the Western corporate and colonial press had systematically suppressed or distorted any news coming out of China’s long-gestating revolution. Without an anti-imperialist alternative, the laboring masses of the West and even much of the South would have been wholly unprepared for its world-historic triumph in 1949. For that, the Chinese people have always felt an immense debt of gratitude to the intrepid journalists, educators, and artists who dared to tell their story to the world: from Edgar Snow and Agnes Smedley to Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and countless others.

In that spirit, Qiao Collective is deeply honored to unite with comrades across Latin America (, and ), Africa (NAAM) and the African diaspora (), and the Islamic world () in a new anti-imperialist media network called Sovereign Media. Together we aim to pierce the veil of Western discursive hegemony and disinformation, bringing you unfiltered reporting from the frontlines of Fidel Castro’s “battle of ideas.”

Over the next several days, and regularly thereafter, we’ll be posting original content produced in collaboration with Sovereign Media. Please follow and all our partners to support this vital work

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