On 24 October, No Cold War hosted a very successful and interesting dialogue between Zhang Weiwei (professor of international relations at Fudan University, former interpreter to Deng Xiaoping, and author of several books including the best-selling The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State) and Jeffrey Sachs (a leading expert in sustainable development, former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and author of several books including the influential The End of Poverty). The online event was attended by over 400 people, with registrations from 62 countries.

You can view the event in full at YouTube (https://youtu.be/eAFU4Y1C-10) and read the report by No Cold War convenor Carlos Martinez.

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

Our launch statement continues to pick up support. Click here to read it (translated in 17 languages) and to add your name.

Organisational supporters include:

• Black Alliance for Peace (US)
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)
• CODEPINK (US)
• No to War – No to NATO
• Peace for Okinawa Coalition
• Pivot to Peace (US)
• Simon Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples
• South African Peace Initiative
• Stop the War (UK)
• US Peace Council

Individual signatories include:

• Diane Abbott – Labour MP, former Labour Party Shadow Home Secretary (UK)
• Celso Amorim – Former Foreign Minister and Defence Minister of Brazil (Brazil)
• Ajamu Baraka – Green Party candidate for US Vice-President in 2016, Black AgendaReport.com (US)
• Medea Benjamin – Peace activist and cofounder Codepink (US)
• Barbara Finamore – Author, ‘Will China Save the Planet?’ (US)
• Gerald Horne – Chair of History and African American Studies, University of Houston (US)
• Martin Jacques – Senior Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University (UK)
• Irvin Jim – General Secretary, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
• Chris Matlhako – Second Deputy General Secretary, South African Communist Party
• Maite Mola – Vice-President European Left Party (Spain)
• Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – Nobel Peace Prize winner (Argentina)
• John Pilger – Prize Winning Journalist, Director of ‘The Coming War on China’ (Australia)
• N Ram – Former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu (India)
• Carlos Ron – President, Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples (Venezuela)
• João Pedro Stedile – MST (Brazil)
• Jill Stein – Green Party candidate for President of the US in 2012 and 2016 (US)
• Yanis Varoufakis – Economist, Member of Parliament, and former Finance Minister (Greece)
• Wang Wen – Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China
• Colonel Ann Wright – US Army (retired), Veterans for Peace (US)
• Zhang Weiwei – Professor, Fudan University, author ‘The China Wave’ (China)