A Conversation on Claudia Jones and her Engagements with Communist China’s Nuclear Ambitions.

Iordan Mentore speaks with Zifeng Liu, aan intellectual historian Africana world with specializations in Black internationalism, anticolonial thought, and Afro-Asian solidarity. His current projects "Redrawing the Balance of Power: Black Left Feminists, Mao’s China, and the Making of an Afro-Asian Political Imaginary" explores how Black leftist women’s understandings of race, class, gender, sexuality, and empire evolved as they sought Afro-Chinese solidarity within often difficult geopolitical contexts. This episode touches on a range of topics that introduce Claudio Jones and discusses her view on nuclear weapons and her attempts to link Beijing’s nuclear project to global anti-imperialist movements.