A New Cold War against China is against the interests of humanity

We note the increasingly aggressive statements and actions being taken by the US government in regard to China. These constitute a threat to world peace and are an obstacle to humanity successfully dealing with extremely serious common issues which confront it such as climate change, control of pandemics, racist discrimination and economic development.

We therefore believe that any New Cold War would run entirely counter to the interests of humanity. Instead we stand in favour of maximum global cooperation in order to tackle the enormous challenges we face as a species.

We therefore call upon the US to step back from this threat of a Cold War and also from other dangerous threats to world peace it is engaged in including: withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement; withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Accords; and its increasing disengagement from UN bodies. The US should also stop pressuring other countries to adopt such dangerous positions.

We support China and the US basing their relations on mutual dialogue and centring on the common issues which unite humanity.

Initial signatories – organisations

• ANSWER coalition (US)
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)
• CODEPINK (US)
• International Action Center (US)
• Peace for Okinawa Coalition
• Pivot to Peace (US)
• Stop the War (UK)
• Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War (Canada)

More information and the posibility to support nd sign on https://nocoldwar.org/statement