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China and Botswana elevated ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership during President Duma Gideon Boko's October 12-17 state visit; the two marked 51 years of diplomatic relations and 45 years of Chinese medical teams, while Togo and China will celebrate 55 years of ties next year.

Myriam Kane of the Black Liberation Alliance told the Socialist China Conference 2026 that her September 2025 visit to China, as one of more than 70 African delegates to a China-Africa youth festival, showed engagement breaking the old colonial design.

Sun Lei, China's deputy UN representative, rebutted Western criticism at the Third Committee, condemning smears by the UK, Australia, Japan and others while citing China's poverty gains and UK poverty figures.

Keith Bennett, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, recounts in 'Brits in Revolution' how Michael Lindsay joined a 1938 guerrilla railway attack and sent the first 'Xinhua News Agency Yan'an' English broadcast in 1945, arguing British and Chinese struggles were one fight.

Hangzhou, a 12.7-million-person megacity whose digital economy is 29.5 percent of GDP, hosts DeepSeek and Unitree, yet Zhejiang's data-service electricity use rose 159 percent in 2025, prompting a 1.2 power-usage ceiling on new data centres.

Rita Giménez discusses China's gig worker protections, Belt and Road infrastructure, multipolarity, EU anti-China rhetoric, and cultural barriers to cross-border cooperation from her base in Shenzhen.

Rita Gimenez argues the EU's trade-deficit blame on China masks imperial rhetoric, tracing Europe's deindustrialisation and colonial legacy to explain its contradictory China policy.

Rita Giménez joins Ileana to challenge claims of oppressive Chinese labour conditions and explain China's gig economy reforms, platform worker protections and algorithm rules compared with the Global North.

The Communist Party of Ireland marked the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China at a Dublin embassy reception, deepening party ties with Beijing through conferences and academic exchanges.

Washington's chip and AI blockade of China is compared to the Cold War CoCom embargo that helped sink the Soviet economy, arguing China's planned AI build-out and light military burden let it resist.

John Moolenaar demanded Starbucks close its two new Urumqi stores; he voted for a US$26 billion Israel aid package, while the Trump administration prepares a US$2.8 billion sale of 60,000 heavy bombs.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was illegally captured by the Israeli military on December 27, 2024; his weight dropped by one-third in captivity, where he remains alongside at least 160 other medical professionals, including 20 doctors.

More than 150 activists, scholars and trade unionists gathered in north London for the third annual Socialist China Conference, marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

China Daily's London correspondent covered the third annual Socialist China Conference, where left-wing, anti-war and academic speakers urged the West to better understand China's peaceful rise, Global South contributions and multipolar vision.

A DPRK international affairs analyst accuses the United States of escalating tensions in the Taiwan Strait through arms sales and military deployments, arguing Taiwan is part of China and its return is inevitable.

At China Daily's 'Vision China' event in London on September 17, MEP Ondřej Dostál argued the West must see China as it actually is, citing an enormous gap between the real China and Western perceptions.

More than 400 guests attended the Chinese Embassy's 77th national day reception in Ottawa, where Senator Victor Oh recounted Uyghur children in Urumqi saying they wanted to be doctors and Rob Oliphant affirmed Canada's One China policy.

Friends of Socialist China's London rally marked the PRC's 77th anniversary; Radhika Desai chaired, Jiang Zhouteng cited 35.5 percent growth, and Pablo Ginarte Sampedro described Cuba's eight grid collapses.

Friends of Socialist China held its third annual Socialist China Conference in north London on 3 October 2026, marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China; more than 150 people attended.

Speakers at a London rally marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China defend Chinese socialism, critique anti-China propaganda, and argue China's development model offers an alternative to Western-centric modernisation.

A conference panel argues that the new cold war against China risks becoming a hot war, examining AUKUS, critical minerals, and the Global South's sovereignty struggles.

A Socialist China Conference 2026 panel launching a book on Chinese foreign policy, debating multipolarity, anti-imperialism, Latin America, Africa and the legacy of Deng Xiaoping.

Panellists at the Socialist China Conference contrast China's mass-consultation AI strategy and green industrial investment with Washington's oligarch-driven approach, arguing Beijing is building the infrastructure for a new productive paradigm.

An editorial marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China credits socialist construction for mass literacy, the elimination of extreme poverty for 800 million people, and global solidarity with Iran, Cuba and Africa.

An interview arguing that contemporary China remains fundamentally socialist despite market reforms, and that its rise, alongside Brazil and the BRICS, is driving a multipolar transition away from US-led imperialism.

John Ross, a British economist at Renmin University, calls the Xi-Trump summit positive mainly because the US launched no big attacks on China, though few substantial agreements emerged and the tariff truce ran only to January.

Five years after AUKUS, Australia became the first country to break its non-nuclear status with nuclear-powered submarines; Britain supplies the welded propulsion system from Derby, and Australia pays A$4.6bn to expand that site.