In an interview with Global Times on 3 March 2025, Keith Bennett discusses the issues facing China’s ‘two sessions’ event this week (the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress and the third session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference). He comments that China’s modernization path “offers a new option for other countries who want to speed up development while preserving independence.”

In a powerful assessment of the recent visit to China of Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Keith Bennett warns the government that its cowardly endorsement of the imperial arrogance and hubris of the anti-Corbyn turn in the Labour Party impedes the further progress of such engagement. He urges the labour and trade union movement to press for such limited and partial moves by the Labour government to engage with China to go much further.

Prospects for US-China relations in Trump’s second presidency
“The Asia Pacific region is where key issues still unresolved from the 1940s continue to fester,” states Keith Bennett in a speech on prospects for US-China relations in Trump’s second presidency delivered to the London Region of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.