<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 face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>China Study Group</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Date: Thursday, June 13</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Time: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Place: Center for Marxist Education, 550 Mass. Ave, 2nd floor, Central Square in Cambridge (near Central Sq. T red line)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>China's President Xi Jinping and US President Obama hold summit meeting in California: review and analysis</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">China's Xi Jinping is visiting the US the first week in June soon after assuming China's highest offices. An informal summit will be held in California; the sooner than anticipated meeting creates some optimism for improvement in relations in an atmosphere of US charges of Chinese cyberattacks and Chinese concerns about the US "pivot" strategy of encirclement. The China Study Group will review Xi's visit to the US and assess the results and impact and US/China relations.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Upcoming event:</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Verdana"><b>Special Event! </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>"Lessons of Palestine"</b></font><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Verdana"><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Speaker: Wadi'h Halabi</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Sat. June 22 @ 3 - 5 p.m.</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Verdana">The Palestinian struggle holds important if challenging lessons for human liberation worldwide. Some are drawn from the bitter defeats in the past seven decades. But there are also important lessons from the near-victories led by working-class organizations in the years after the 'second catastrophe' of 1967. A presentation and discussion led by Wadi'h Halabi of the Center for Marxist Education. Place this one on your calendar.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Verdana; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">If you do not wish to receive these announcements, please reply with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line.</font></div>
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