China’s zero-Covid policy is becoming unsustainable
With just three weeks until the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Covid-19 is creeping ever closer to the…
Britain is finally waking up to China’s influence operations
The biggest surprise in Thursday’s security warning about a Chinese agent seeking to influence British politicians is that it came…
China could be more dangerous than ever in 2022
Twenty twenty-two is the year that Xi Jinping plans to seize power for life, but it is not going according to…
Why is China turning its back on the world?
Why is China self-isolating?
Why it matters that tennis is standing up to Beijing
The commercial road to Beijing is littered with grovelling apologies, cringeworthy kowtows and silent complicity in repression. That’s why the…
Peng Shuai and the limits of China’s #MeToo movement
China’s #MeToo movement has taken a step closer to the centre of power in Beijing, after sexual abuse allegations by…
China’s energy crisis
The absence of Xi Jinping from COP26 in Glasgow this weekend should strip away any illusion that China is a…
Can Beijing buy the Taliban?
China is seeking a grand bargain from the Taliban: eliminate the groups Beijing says are stirring up trouble among its…
Xi threatens Taiwan because he's weak
Over the weekend, China sent waves of warplanes racing towards Taiwan in numbers not seen before, forcing the democratic self-ruled…
Will China’s ‘digital yuan’ reinvent money as we know it?
The rise of the digital yuan
Is China’s debt-fuelled economy doomed?
For years it seemed as though China’s massively inflated property bubble would just keep on expanding, seemingly defying the laws of economics, as…
Xi Jinping is weaponising China's sex scandals
Zhou Xiaoxuan was in tears when she emerged from the Beijing court around midnight on Tuesday. ‘I’m really sorry there…
China’s #MeToo moment
The employee alleged that she was forced to drink heavily at a banquet during a business trip, then sexually assaulted…
How ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ is taking over China’s classrooms
How ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ took over China’s classrooms
China’s #MeToo moment
Can the CCP control China’s harassment scandals?
China’s Great Game in Afghanistan
China greeted America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan and the Taliban seizure of power with a mixture of glee and trepidation.…
The troubling truth about Britain’s nuclear deal with China
The troubling truth about Britain’s nuclear deal with China
China’s Belt and Road to Damascus
There is, it seems, no regime too odious to be a partner of China. Being repressive and corrupt have long…
How China bought Cambridge
Cambridge has been compromised by China
Matt Hancock isn't the only politician who is clueless about cyber security
It is widely acknowledged that Britain has some of the world’s finest cyber capabilities. GCHQ is a global leader in…
How Taishan almost became China’s Chernobyl
Days after a nuclear power plant began spewing deadly radiation, the ruling Communist party pushed ahead with a huge and…
The growing cult of ‘Dada’ Xi Jinping
In a defiant speech to mark the Communist party’s centenary today, Xi Jinping warned foreign powers they would ‘have their…
Matt Hancock and the problem with China's surveillance tech
There can have been no more avid viewers of the CCTV footage of Matt Hancock’s snog and grope than China’s…
How China is stoking racial tensions in the West
Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social…
How China is stoking America’s racial tensions
Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social…
