<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">China Study Group looks at crucial Party Congress and US China bashing</font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">Time: 7 pm, Thursday Nov. 8</font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">Place: Center for Marxist Education, 550 Mass. Ave, 2nd floor, Central Square, Cambridge</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">Nov. 8 opens the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China, one of the world's most important political events in 2012. The China Study Group will examine the runup to the Congress, including the Bo Xilai affair. Discussion will include the context of the meeting including the competitive China-bashing in the US presidential campaign and the US pivot to strategic focus in the Asia -Pacific Region.</font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; "> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 16px; ">more information: <font color="#0011ed" style="color: #0011ed"><a href="mailto:mcfarland13@gmail.com">mcfarland13@gmail.com</a></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 9px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">If you do not wish to receive these announcements, please reply with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </font></div>
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