Xi Jinping
China vs America: the struggle for south-east Asia
Can Biden’s America contain China?
Buying power: how China co-opts the UN
How China co-opts the UN
Xi’s world: Covid has accelerated China’s rise
Covid has accelerated China’s rise
Why Trumpism won’t outlive Trump
Trumpism is, according to its adherents, meant to replace Reaganism, the political doctrine that has dominated the Republican party and…
How liberal globalism went bankrupt
When future historians chronicle the period after the Cold War, the rise of China will dominate their accounts. Beginning in…
The ill-timed revelations of John Bolton
It’s starting to look as though the question isn’t who Donald Trump asked to assist him in his 2020 bid…
How Xi is using fear of Covid to crush Hong Kong's autonomy
How Xi is using fear of Covid to crush Hong Kong
Our toothless response to China is embarrassing
If you have been troubled by the government’s failure to get tough on the country responsible for our present malaise,…
Chinese diplomat's Covid-19 PR exercise backfires
As countries around the world try to work out a way to live with coronavirus, there’s a growing hostility towards…
Half of Americans want their state to sue China for coronavirus damages
Public opinion is rapidly turning against China as and intelligence agencies have exposed the full extent of the communist state’s…
'You are endangering the world': German tabloid goes to war with China
Could China have done more to prevent the coronavirus pandemic? One tabloid editor in Germany certainly thinks so and an extraordinary…
Who will win the corona wars?
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. The Covid-19 pandemic came along just as…
Why is Trump being nice to China again?
China hawks watched with hope when Trump ascended to the presidency in 2016. He spoke on the campaign trail of…
The coronavirus is springing the Thucydides trap
The first casualty of informational war is truth. The first American casualty of COVID-19 was the myth that the United…
Trump’s yin and yang game with China
It should be obvious by now — but somehow isn’t. Whenever @realDonldTrump says something wild, you can bet the real…
Is China really the enemy?
China is a nation with values deeply at odds with the West. The Chinese spy, steal and bully. They don’t…
Biting political satire: China Dream, by Ma Jian, reviewed
Ma Jian’s novels have been banned in his native China for 30 years and he has been hailed as ‘China’s…
China’s new way to drown out the Christmas message? A sea of tat
If you think capitalism has blinged up Christmas, you should see what the Communists are doing to it. At this…
One man rules
Optimists speculate that Xi Jinping’s power accumulation is the prelude to a burst of liberalising reform in his second five-year…
Michael Dobbs’s diary: Talking House of Cards with President Xi
I’m a lucky man. My novel House of Cards transformed my life, yet I wrote it almost by accident nearly…
Heathrow’s third runway could still be halted – here’s how
The Great British Runway final between Heathrow and Gatwick is beginning to look like a game of two halves. The…
Britain should not mistake its allies for friends
It would be hard to dream up a more absurd piece of political satire than an agency of the British…
Portrait of the week
Home In a speech at the Shanghai stock exchange, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced a feasibility study…
Chairman Mao: monster of misrule
Mao Zedong, once the Helmsman, Great Teacher and Red Red Sun in Our Hearts, and still the Chairman, died in…
Does Xi Jinping really want reform? If so, he would unravel China
For all its bombast and success, the Chinese Communist party faces a host of looming problems – and a big decision
