Is China "imperialist"? There was a healthy indy-left debate during last
Thursday's discussion, drawing on the various case studies we reviewed
of Chinese investment in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia,
beginning here <https://youtu.be/CO6-erfho0U?t=4058>:
https://youtu.be/CO6-erfho0U?t=4058
(Personally, I find it useful to consider this question in the context
of capital/non-capitalist relations, drawing upon Luxemburg, Marini,
Amin and Harvey. Categories for comparison would include
overaccumulation crisis tendencies, spatial fixes like the Belt&Road
Initiative, imperial/multilateral institutional backing such as is
happening at the G20 right now - and that Barack Obama has just
explained in his irritating new auto-biography - super-exploitative
internal class, race and gender relations, ecological destruction and
'deputy sheriff' geopolitical roles. These categories of analysis
suggest, to me, that the BRICS are still sub-imperial economies, with
fluidity possible in coming years, especially if inter-imperial
conflicts continue to emerge between Washington and Beijing now that
standard neoliberal/neoconservative U.S. imperialism appears to be
restored. More on this structural approach is in a 10 min presentation
on the BRICS I did on Friday, within the "Movement of Movements" series
here <https://youtu.be/yeKA3Ljq0mQ?t=1129>. If anyone wants the data on
extraction of surplus values from imperial, subimperial and peripheral
countries I refer to - which is obscure but I think of interest, even if
it is measured by a neoliberal agency, the South African Reserve Bank -
you'll find it in a 2020 book - /BRICS and the New American Imperialism
<https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/22401/9781776145768_WEB.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y>/
edited by Vishwas Satgar - available for free download here
<https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22401>, p.87.)
On 11/19/2020 11:28 PM, Patrick Bond wrote:
China’s Capitalism and the World
https://msu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMud-GrpzopGNAluHuUBLUx5Z_vEHzcpp-y
Please join the Critical China Scholars for our next webinar!
*China’s Capitalism and the World*
Thur, Nov. 19, 5-6:30 EST — Register here (free)
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__msu.zoom.us_meeting_register_tJMud-2DGrpzopGNAluHuUBLUx5Z-5FvEHzcpp-2Dy&d=DwMDaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=ahICC3_HKE78snLHJOtVug&m=R6iNISlr2j7k9K59kuMzemvcekVAVNy2tfu225HGRvg&s=LmfcembfJ5o5mIr3YE8Q2444HU_8AVefyDh-GWak_kQ&e=>
The past decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the pace and
scale of global capitalist expansion; the rapidity of consequent
social transformations is in part due to China’s increasing
participation in these processes. The Belt and Road Initiative and its
associated infrastructure projects have received a huge amount of
attention, but this webinar expands the focus to less understood and
less often seen aspects of the reorganization of global capital. Based
on extensive research and innovative approaches, the speakers will
make visible the ways in which Chinese investment in South America,
Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa is reshaping local and global
life, resource extraction, and relations of political domination and
resistance.
_*Co-sponsors:*_ Gongchao
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gongchao.org&d=DwMDaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=ahICC3_HKE78snLHJOtVug&m=R6iNISlr2j7k9K59kuMzemvcekVAVNy2tfu225HGRvg&s=u0_uqiH69gYl3PzwDeY0wnr-G9NlCejFKALMuCP8WOw&e=>;
Made in China Journal
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__madeinchinajournal.com&d=DwMDaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=ahICC3_HKE78snLHJOtVug&m=R6iNISlr2j7k9K59kuMzemvcekVAVNy2tfu225HGRvg&s=hc__crdLsdGxWsdFfcgWIR8XMP348a0eFK8YaSOAT7s&e=>;
The Nation
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thenation.com&d=DwMDaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=ahICC3_HKE78snLHJOtVug&m=R6iNISlr2j7k9K59kuMzemvcekVAVNy2tfu225HGRvg&s=O81-pJDjCs4-vtDzqc3q9fnZG0Vv9KKBz0oW4l-_n-A&e=>
_*Moderator:*_ Eli Friedman, Cornell University
_*Panelists:*_
* Patrick Bond, School of Government, University of the Western Cape
* Juliet Lu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Atkinson Center for
Sustainability & Department of Global Development, Cornell University
* Farai Maguwu, Executive Director, Centre for Natural Resource
Governance, Harare, Zimbabwe
* Omar Manky, Department of Social and Political Sciences,
Universidad del Pacífico
* Gustavo Oliveira, Global & International Studies, University of
California, Irvine
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