China
Letters: The case for immunity passports
Joy Sir: Alexandra Coghlan identifies the coincidence between the rise of recording and broadcast technology and the flourishing of the…
How Britain will counter China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy
The most significant and lasting change brought about by Covid is that it has woken the West up to the…
Biden should embrace Britain’s new Indo-Pacific strategy
While final negotiations on the UK’s relationship with the EU continue to drag, No. 10 is moving rapidly to expand…
Buying power: how China co-opts the UN
How China co-opts the UN
Cold war: Russia’s bid to control the Arctic
Russia’s bid to control the Arctic
Letters: Eton is failing to protect freedom of speech
Eton mess Sir: As much as I am a great admirer of Charles Moore, as a former Eton master and…
MIT’s China problem
Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at Georgia Tech on Wednesday about the Chinese Communist party’s undue influence on American higher education.…
Why is China keeping quiet about its vaccine programme?
While Britain is the first country in the world to approve a vaccine, it is not the first to start…
The case for Chinese reparations
It is time we started to talk about reparations. I am not of course referring to the demands made by…
Twitter is in China’s pocket
Twitter has been quick on the draw when responding to tweets by President Trump in the last month, as he…
China has a friend in Jesus
Last week, I wrote about ‘Frost & Lewis’ (David and Oliver), leaders of our country’s team at the Brexit negotiations,…
If taxes must rise, Sunak should pick on private equity instead
It’s not axiomatic that taxes must rise to pay for the pandemic, if you seriously believe the surge in growth,…
How the UK can help Hong Kong
Beijing’s authority is sweeping through Hong Kong
Portrait of the week: Cummings goes, Corbyn returns and pigeon sells for £1.4m
Home Dominic Cummings, the chief adviser to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, left Downing Street after a week in which…
The strangeness of voting in the Lords from my bed
Having only recently entered the House of Lords, I must tread with caution, but I had always understood that it…
The next American empire
Americans have never been sure of their standing in the world, and the world has never been sure of Americans’…
China has taken control of Hong Kong's legislature
Hong Kong’s legislature has today moved one step closer to becoming a local branch of the Chinese Communist Party, after…
A toast to Tim Beardson
I am in an Eliot mood, not a Keatsian one. ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ is a surprisingly… mellow…
Erdogan’s game: why Turkey has turned against the West
Why Turkey is severing its links with the West
Who’d want the job of vaccinating the nation?
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel — or a second lockdown thundering unstoppably towards us? News…
Xi’s world: Covid has accelerated China’s rise
Covid has accelerated China’s rise
The truth about Burma’s ‘imprisoned princess’
It’s as ignorant to demonise Aung San Suu Kyi as it was to idolise her
Why is the media downplaying the Hunter Biden story?
Remember the Ukraine impeachment drama? No? Cockburn can hardly blame you. But believe it or not, less than nine months…
Letters: In defence of seagulls
China’s covered Sir: If Charles Moore had contacted the BBC, rather than conducting a fruitless Google search, we would have…
The Tibetans’ fight for freedom continues — but only just
‘Free Tibet!’ used to be a rallying cry for Hollywood A-listers and rock stars. Richard Gere hung out with the…
