LETTERS

I am a London-based freelance writer for the Friends of Socialist China, a platform aimed to support the People’s Republic of China and help people better understand Chinese socialism. We foreground China in particular because its size and level of development give it an objectively critical role in the global transition to common development. China is the most prominent force pushing for the establishment of a multipolar system of international relations and a new international economic order.Meanwhile, it is also emerging as the global leader in the struggle to avoid climate break down. As such, the continued survival and further development of socialism in China is a crucial matter not only for the Chinese people themselves but for all humanity as a whole.I knowChina Todaywas first founded under the nameChina Reconstructsby Soong Ching Ling in 1952, and I believe it is a good window for helping more people around the world to understand China and its people. Recently, I wrote an article titled, “The U.S. Is a Serial Human Rights Abuser”which was published on the of ficial website ofChina Today,together with other articles on the same topic. I discussed the irony that having such a disastrous human rights record at home and abroad, the U.S.so often frames its aggressive foreign policy precisely under the pretext of safeguarding human rights. What’s more, in m article I contrasted the U.S.’s record with that of China,concluding that “the West’s attempts to smear China as a human rights abuser – and to portray the U.S. and its allies as upholders of freedom and democracy – are nothing but the hypocritical lies of a collapsing hegemonic world order.”

Carlos Martinez

U.K.

I am the director of the UNESCO Beijing Office and Representative to China,DPRK, Japan, Mongolia, and ROK. Recently, I have written an article forChina Todayentitled, “Protecting Our Past for Our Future” which was published in the September issue of the magazine. As I pointed out in the article, culture and heritage are both ends and means to sustainable development. As the world’s largest developing country and a major economy that has undergone rapid development and urbanization over the past several decades, China has been at the forefront of addressing issues of heritage conservation that is in synergy with socioeconomic development. It was a pleasure for me to meet one ofChina Today’s journalists at the China International Fair for Trade in Services 2022 in Beijing. During that event,we were able to share the achievements we have reached over the past decade in saving intangible cultural heritage in a way that fits the local conditions, especially in some rural areas where many of China’s ethnic people live.

Shahbaz Khan

Pakistan