“Eighty years on, it remains the case that the Soviet Union’s victory in the Great Patriotic War and China’s victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are the fundamental basis for an international order based on peace, democracy and the rights of peoples and nations.” Keith Bennett in interview with China Daily.

On 28 April 2025, a visiting delegation of scholars from the School of Marxism at Shanghai’s Fudan University attended a meeting at the London School of Economics called in their honour by Friends of Socialist China (FOSC) and the International Manifesto Group (IMG). Keith Bennett, Patron of the Institute for Independence Studies, was in attendance. The aims and activities of the Institute’s Xi Jinping Study Group were outlined to the visiting scholars by its Secretary.

“The spirit of Bandung is indeed alive and, with Socialist China at its core, is now driving a process of change unseen in a century, with the rise of the Global South and the inexorable progression towards multipolarity.” Keith Bennett on the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference.