Racism and the New Cold War
The error of focusing on revived residual racism
NewColdWar.org held on March 12 an online event, “Racism, Witch-hunts and the New Cold War.” The event was co-sponsored by the Qiao Collective, No Cold War Britain, and the Chinese Community Council of Australia. The panelists were Dr. Gerald Horne, Chair of History and African American Studies, University of Houston, USA; Amanda Yee, Podcaster on politics, culture and media criticism (USA); Kevin Li, Qiao Collective (USA); Anna Chen, Writer, poet and broadcaster (UK); Nick Estes, Red Nation (USA); Dr. Anthony Pun, Chair of the Chinese Community Council of Australia (Australia); and Dolores Chew, Fellow of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute (Canada). Dr. Ping Hua, Co-founder of the Chinese Association of Southampton and No Cold War Britain (UK), and Sheila Xiao, Co-founder of Pivot to Peace (USA), served as moderators. Dr. Ding Hua’s introduction highlighted that the escalation of the Cold War against China has led to an escalation of racism against people of Chinese herit…