Iordan Mentore speaks with Zifeng Liu, aan intellectual historian Africana world with specializations in Black internationalism, anticolonial thought, and Afro-Asian solidarity. His current projects "Redrawing the Balance of Power: Black Left Feminists, Mao’s China, and the Making of an Afro-Asian Political Imaginary" explores how Black leftist women’s understandings of race, class, gender, sexuality, and empire evolved as they sought Afro-Chinese solidarity within often difficult geopolitical contexts. This episode touches on a range of topics that introduce Claudio Jones and discusses her view on nuclear weapons and her attempts to link Beijing’s nuclear project to global anti-imperialist movements.