Editing Civil rights movement (section)

==== China ====
In China, [[Mao Zedong]] in August 1963 expressed support for the U.S. civil rights movement, stating that the "fascist atrocities" committed against black people in the U.S. demonstrated the link between reactionary domestic U.S. policies and its policies of aggression abroad.<ref name=":Minami">{{Cite book |last=Minami |first=Kazushi |title=People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War |date=2024 |publisher=[[Cornell University Press]] |isbn=9781501774157 |location=Ithaca, NY}}</ref>{{Rp|page=34}} In 1968, a mass rally in China condemned the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.<ref name=":Reinders">{{Cite book |last=Reinders |first=Eric |title=Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy, and Translation |date=2024 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] Academic |isbn=9781350374645 |series=Perspectives on Fantasy series |location=London, UK}}</ref>{{Rp|page=91}} Mao stated that racial discrimination in the U.S. resulted from its colonial system and that the struggle of Black people in the U.S. was an [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] struggle.<ref name=":Minami" />{{Rp|page=34}} The [[Chinese Communist Party]] echoed this view of the civil rights movement.<ref name=":Reinders" />{{Rp|page=91}} During the [[Cultural Revolution]], ''[[People's Daily]]'' repeated cited the example that King advocated nonviolence, but was violently killed, as an example of its view that violent struggle was necessary for the oppressed masses of the world to free themselves.<ref name=":Gao">{{Cite book |last=Gao |first=Yunxiang |title=Arise, Africa! Roar, China! Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century |date=2021 |publisher=[[University of North Carolina Press]] |isbn=9781469664606 |location=Chapel Hill, NC |pages=66}}</ref>

[[Maoism]] influenced some components of the Black liberation movement, including the Black Panther Party and black self-defense advocate [[Robert F. Williams]].<ref name=":Minami" />{{Rp|page=34}}