Qiao Collective
about 3 years ago

Two months ago, a group of Guangdong landlords & shop owners evicted a group of African migrants. In response China:

- mass arrested the racist actors
- apologized to African Union
- paid for hotels and meals for the affected African migrants...
- created laws & police force to punish discrimination
- passed a huge series of anti-discrimination laws
- spent weeks going to all restaurants, landlords, & taxis to warn them of the law
- created a permanent special police force & hotline to protect African migrants from discrimination
- plastered notices across the entire province warning of punishment for racism

Here is the news article covering these actions: http://chinanews.com/gn/2020/05-03/9174472.shtml

Unsurprisingly China's quick actions to address discrimination by a group of private landlords & shopkeepers in one province has been ignored by Western media. Instead inflammatory false reports of China "persecuting & imprisoning" African migrants continues to dominate headlines.

We decided to share this info on China's addressing of the Guangdong incident because Westerners continue to equate the US' 400 years of oppression of Black people to this one incident to argue that the US & China are the same & have the exact same system of "systemic racism."

Systemic or institutional racism doesn't mean just individual acts of racism. It means that a society's entire existence & capitalist economy requires racism to continue existing and thus enforces a macro system of racialized exploitation that permeates every corner of society.

Qiao Collective has curated a short reading list of articles, papers & books on China & Africa's relationship that challenges the West's propaganda on China's relationship with Africa and challenges the narrative of Chinese "neo-colonialism" in Africa.

Lastly, given the far more important events happening in the US, we would rather not have had to address this, but we've received a huge wave of alarming comments that China is putting Africans into "camps" & is committing "genocide" against Africans in Guangdong—which are false.

https://docs.google.com/…/1oeo4OVLUlWDk2NZI3UO6rl6bzVd…/edit

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A Curated Reading List on China’s Relationship with Africa by Qiao Collective This reading list is meant to provide a true lens to China and Africa’s relationship that challenges the Western propaganda and myth of Chinese “neo-colonialism.” Articles China in Africa is not “Neo-Colonialism....
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China in Africa Reading List by Qiao Collective
A Curated Reading List on China’s Relationship with Africa by Qiao Collective This reading list is meant to provide a true lens to China and Africa’s relationship that challenges the Western propaganda and myth of Chinese “neo-colonialism.” Articles China in Africa is not “Neo-Colonialism....
A Curated Reading List on China’s Relationship with Africa by Qiao Collective This reading list is meant to provide a true lens to China and Africa’s relationship that challenges the Western propaganda and myth of Chinese “neo-colonialism.” Articles China in Africa is not “Neo-Colonialism....
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