Carlos Martinez is an indispensable source for a serious understanding of China's rise economically, geopolitically and culturally, which is taking place much to the consternation of Western ideologues. On this episode of Solid Ground, we attempt to penetrate beyond the miasma of Sinophobia that has been ramped by Trump in particular, but also across the West in general - this despite the fact Beijing's success in bridging divisions across the Global South and beyond under the rubric of their Belt and Road Initiative stands at odds with the crisis of nationalism that has beset the US and Europe as the most grievous symptom of the crisis of Western free market capitalism, for which there is no end in sight.

We discuss the controversy surrounding the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang, the unrest that's been taken place in Hong Kong and the West's role in fanning the flames there, and also about Chinese ability to square the circle of a Communist state and government running a capitalist economy.

You can find Carlos Martinez on Twitter @agent_0f_change. His website is also worth visiting at www.invent-the-future.org, as is the initiative he and others are currently engaged in to counter the welter of anti-China propaganda that is now common in Western capitals. This can be found at www.nocoldwar.org.