It’s time for a reckoning with Chinese big tech
It has been a bumpy week for China’s beleaguered technology giants. They are under increasing scrutiny overseas, and the communist…
ChatCCP: how will China cope with AI?
Chinese AIs may be limited by the need to control what they say
Xi Jinping’s chilling words for Putin
It was perhaps the most intriguing moment of their Moscow summit. As Xi Jinping left the Kremlin last night, he…
The UN’s global net zero target isn’t realistic
Does UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres really have any hope of persuading rich countries to commit to achieving net zero…
Beijing is already bankrolling Putin’s war
It hardly seems like the most propitious time for Xi Jinping to be visiting Moscow. There’s an international arrest warrant…
A Cold War mindset is thriving in Beijing
China’s new foreign minister Qin Gang has come out growling, using his first media appearance to accuse the US of…
China is trying to strangle the world’s solar panel industry
China is moving to consolidate and exploit its position as world leader in solar power technologies, by restricting the export…
The vast scale of Beijing’s high-tech balloon programme
There will no doubt be some tense moments in the boardrooms of western technology companies over the coming days after…
Is the CCP’s desperation behind China’s abrupt reopening?
China usually shuts down for the Lunar New Year, but Communist party leaders have marked the arrival of the Year…
China’s chip industry is struggling
China is entering the new year with its tech ambitions under a Covid cloud. The enormous cost of the now…
China’s dangerous zero-Covid retreat
China’s scrapping of strict Covid controls represents not so much a shift in gear, as a screeching hand-break turn. It…
The death of Jiang ‘the toad’ – and memories of a more open China
It is a measure of the dark places Xi Jinping is taking China politically and economically that the rule of…
Is Xi Jinping in trouble?
The Chinese people seem to have run out of patience with their country’s draconian Covid policies. After almost three years…
Zero-Covid is the new one-child policy
It has been a remarkable few days for China’s increasingly absurd and at times chilling zero-Covid campaign. There was outrage…
The mystery of the Hu Jintao incident
A steward tries to lift Hu Jintao from his seat, but Hu doesn’t want to move. The former Communist party…
The threat of Chinese headhunters
It is hard to say what is more shocking, dozens of former British military pilots lured by vast salaries to…
Joe Biden has jolted China
The chip war between China and America is heating up, with an increasingly assertive Joe Biden battling with Xi Jinping as…
Is Liz Truss going soft on China?
In her speech to the Conservative party conference, Liz Truss rightly pointed out that we did not stand up to…
China’s lockdown nightmare is far from over
Another Covid-19 lockdown, another angry confrontation. This time it was on the streets of Shenzhen, China’s high-tech hub, where videos…
Even Xi is unimpressed with Putin's bungling autocracy
To say that Vladimir Putin is giving autocracy a bad name is rather to state the obvious. But it now…
The extreme heatwave wreaking havoc across China
China is struggling to limit the impact of its longest and most widespread heatwave since records began more than 60…
The Chinese spy ship and the dangers of debt-trap diplomacy
A Chinese spy ship that docked in Sri Lanka on Tuesday in defiance of Indian and western protests is the…
China's Taiwan tantrum is already backfiring
Chinese social media is full of anger and frustration – because the military didn’t shoot down Nancy Pelosi’s plane. As…
Taiwan tells China: we're not scared
China has launched a new round of military drills near Taiwan, having previously announced they were ending on Sunday. The…
The UK is just waking up to the scale of Chinese espionage
The scene could have come straight out of a spy novel. An ornate Chinese garden with temples and pavilions, built…
