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CovertAction Magazine presents…

US Geopolitical Rivalry Against China: The Real Story 

hosted by John Kiriakou & Ann Wright!

Webinar is TUESDAY, December 1 @ 7pm EST! Get your tickets now! Click the graphic below

Our expert panel will break down the United States’ aggressive Cold War strategy used against the Chinese government and evaluate alternatives including multipolarity. Get the raw analysis you will not find in mainstream media.

Our hosts:

John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer who led the 2002 capture of al-Qaeda official Abu Zubaydah. He became a prominent whistleblower in 2007 by publicly exposing the CIA’s waterboarding program, a journey he detailed in his memoir, The Reluctant Spy.

Ann Wright is a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel and former diplomat who served her country for nearly 40 years. In 2003, she prominently resigned from the State Department in direct protest of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Since then, she has become a renowned international peace activist and speaker.

Our three leading experts on China:

Radhika Desai is a Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, Winnepeg, Canada, Director of its Geopolitical Economy Research Group, and Convenor of the International Manifesto Group.  Ms. Desai is an author of multiple books, including Geopolitical Economy(2013) and her most recent Capitalism, Coronavirus and War(2022).  Ms. Desai hosts a fortnightly show, Geopolitical Economy Hour on the Geopolitical Economy Report website.


Yan Pan is a Chinese PhD researcher at LUT University, Finland.  Her work examines the political economy of China’s technological and industrial development, with a particular focus on the industrialization and governance of neurotechnology in China.  Her research concerns industrial policy models for future industries in Chinese and Global South contexts.  Prior to her PhD, she researched educational reforms and structural change in labor demand in China.


Ken Hammond is professor emeritus of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University. He has lived and worked in China from time to time since 1982. A lifelong political activist, he is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.