Topics include exactly those issues that Mr Lavrov spoke about in his UNGA speech.  Enjoy!   Radhika Desai brings together new voices, younger voices and serious voices.  It is always a pleasure.

• * AUKUS and the attempts to construct an Asian NATO
• * The rightward shift in Japan and South Korea
• * The West’s incitement of Taiwanese secessionism
• * The role of modern colonialism in the project of containing China (Okinawa, Hawai’i, Guam)
• * Attempts at a new Monroe Doctrine in the Pacific
• * Western power projection in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits
• * China encirclement – from 1949 to the present day * Building unity between the peoples of the Pacific and the oppressed peoples of the United States

Presenters:

• * Liu Xin (Host of the opinion show The Point with Liu Xin, CGTN)
• * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States)
• * Judge Lillian Sing (the first Asian American female Judge in Northern California, retired to start the “Comfort women” Justice Coalition)
• * Ken Hammond (Organizer with Pivot to Peace; author of From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History)
• * Li Peng (Dean of the Graduate Institute for Taiwan Studies, Xiamen University)
• * Qiao Collective (Grassroots media collective of diaspora Chinese writers, artists, and researchers)
• * Ju-Hyun Park (Organizer and writer with the Nodutdol collective)
• * KJ Noh (Peace activist and expert on the geopolitics of Asia)
• * Zhong Xiangyu (Political commentator and Chinese hip-hop artist) * Keith Bennett (Co-editor of Friends of Socialist China)
• * Moderator: Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba / International Manifesto Group)

Time Markers:

Radhika Desai – 0:17 Ken Hammond – 7:57 Ju-Hyun Park – 19:07 Judge Lillian Sing – 32:29 Sarah Flounders – 44:17 Li Peng – 57:28 Qiao Collective – 1:07:05 Ben Norton – 1:32:21 KJ Noh – 1:46:55 Zhong Xiangyu – 2:08:14 Keith Bennett – 2:27:03