Last year I had busy working and traveling between China and US to build bi-national activist solidarity and justice movements. Our office in the Wuxi has been open, we had many networking opportunities meeting with many activists, youth, academia, government officials from different areas at across China.

 

There're many success as well as difficulties, while I am Chinese speaks Mandarin fluently, yet they still looking me as "foreigner" giving me different types of stereo-type assumptions (as well as unnecessary social privileges). I always need hide my overseas status (as Chinese-Japanese background, Hong Kong-born Chinese-American), to be very humble with everyone in order to overcome our communication differences and distrust.

 

Every time I back to China I see many happiness and hope, feeling the better with facing less racism, oppression and exploitation then U.S.; yet not everyone want to see a happier, prosper China then U.S.

 

The steady rise of China's right wing pro-US/anti-communist neo-con/neo-liberals forces had been highly alarmed me, they have deep roots from U.S. covert financial and political background; they can be comes with many "progressive" faces claim to be the people's savior: workers' rights, anti-corruption, human rights, independence, environmental rights, disarmament, cyber activism and so on. They keep recycling rethoric syaing everything in China under communist party and Socialism is hell and evil--only fully surrender to learn to become Christian capitalist U.S.--even become US colony is the only manifest density for China's future--The same dirty propaganda tricks had been using in the middle east, Latin America and the East Europe in the past--They're NOT simply an ideological "words of war" fights between left/progressive vs. right/pro-US; it's the life-and-death fight between inviting western imperial colonization vs. anti-imperialism/national independence and economic justice.

One of the hot international topic these days in China is Iran and Syria, while most Chinese supports the Iranian and Syrian government against the western-US middle-east corrupted oil monarchy backed oppositions in these two countries, the pro-US Chinese "liberals" and their backed media are non-stop pumping their rhetoric based on US Fox TV right wing propaganda, with false human rights accusations against Iran and Syria, repeatedly arguing there's no other way but inviting US-NATO to invade theses two countries, recycling: "burn the village to save it" lies. The same deceptions had been used in Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Panama and most recently, in Libya.

As a former long-time undocumented sweatshop workers and oppressed people of color Chinese-American activist in US, I know what's going on in U.S., and U.S. covert and overt intension for China. For the year of Dragon I need to work hard to unite true peace and justice activist from the both countries to build a true mutually respect bi-national solidarity movements that can be unite us together to fight for our common enemy and build our goals, and this is my Year of Dragon wishes...

Lee Siu Hin

National Coordinator
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