Author name: Anna Chen

UK writer and broadcaster Anna Chen challenges stale empire narratives with original insights and a dash of wit. A politically informed artist, poet and pioneering China commentator, she has led successful strategies to raise consciousness and run over dogma with her karma. Cultural breakthroughs include: UK’s First Chinese Punk, First To Take A Show To The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Published Poet At 14, Orwell Prize Shortlisted, TED Speaker, BBC Writer And Presenter, Dissenting Journalist, Critical Thinker And Political Analyst. A lifetime of political analysis & cultural response in published articles, radio, videos, blog and poetry.

PARTYGATE: another day, another diversion from 176,000 Covid deaths in the UK

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Anna Chen – 20 January 2022 Partygate UK frogs still being boiled slowly as the government declares Covid-19 to beendemic and ends restrictions. System failed but mission accomplished So was it negligent homicide, homicidal negligence or mass murder? No, it’sworse: Partygate. Attending parties during lockdown. It may have been illegal under their own rules, selfish […]

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China writing by Anna Chen over 30 years. From Shakedown and Yellow Peril stereotypes to Anna May Wong and Suzy Wrong - Anna Chen

A Permanent Reservoir of Scapegoats: how racism drives the geopolitics of China’s rise

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Anna Chen – 6 October 2021, Racism No Cold War kindly invited me to speak at their online event on 6th October but sound problems rendered my contribution pretty unlistenable — apologies. I am posting the text of my speech here and will try to re-record soon it along with a poem. A PERMANENT RESERVOIR

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We Can’t Make It Here Anymore by James McMurtry: the state of America

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James McMurtry performs We Can’t Make It Here Anymore James McMurtry recorded this video in 2007 and the message is becoming increasingly apt for our modern times as the superpower implodes and America rips itself apart. This is the state of the richest country on Earth after the oligarchy bled it dry. What they did

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Covid Open Letter to Dispatches Channel 4

Open letter of complaint to Channel 4 Dispatches “Covid Leak”

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Channel 4 Dispatches “Covid Leak”: politicising a pandemic
2 September 2021: Open letter of complaint to C4 Dispatches for “Covid Leak”. Politicising Covid-19 gave cover to the UK government’s mishandling of the pandemic and cost lives. All the while, Boris Johnson’s government was letting “the bodies pile high”.

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China under western colonialism. A Chinese woman carries a white male like a beast of burden

The Roots of the Clash between the United States and China: Vigil for the Atlanta Shootings

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After a year of increasing anti-Asian violence encouraged by unscrupulous politicians and media, we took another lurch to the dark side when eight people were killed in the Atlanta shootings (16th March 2021), six of them Asian women. Elsewhere, Asian people are being regularly maimed and murdered.

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