The War on China

“We are here at the starting point of the Long March to remember the time when the Red Army began its journey. We are now embarking on a New Long March, and we must start all over again.” – Xi Jinping, May 2019.

Updated: 2/14/2021

The propaganda surrounding COVID-19 and China’s response is only the latest escalation in a long term geopolitical strategy by US imperialism to destroy it. Few people on the left or the socialist movement in the imperial core have been paying attention to the historic breakup of the US-China relationship. Since Deng Xiaoping, the US-China relationship has been contingent on what I call “The Bargain” between US capital and the rising Chinese socialist state.

The United States ruling class now understands that it got the losing end of The Bargain. With China’s growing vertical production and technological capacity, its desire to develop neighboring countries and…