Chinese Labor Academic Visits US, Seeks to Build China-US Labor Ties

Chinese Labor Academic Visits US, Seeks to Build China-US Labor Ties
The sun rises behind the Shanghai skyline, overlooking the Pudong district on Nov. 11, 2016. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
Trevor Loudon
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The current U.S. tour by leading Chinese labor academic Liu Cheng, Professor of Law and Politics at Shanghai Normal University, signals increased contacts between Chinese and American organized labor.

It also indicates a greater alignment between the American and Chinese Communist parties, and the return of the Chinese Communist Party to a more traditional interpretation of classical Marxism, and an emphasis exporting more revolution and fewer consumer goods.

Trevor Loudon
Trevor Loudon
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Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics. He is best known for his book “Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress” and his similarly themed documentary film “Enemies Within.”
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