Can China contain Evergrande’s collapse?
The Chinese Communist party appears set to kill off its largest economic zombie, while gambling that it can control the…
The mystery of China’s missing ministers
Two down and who knows how many more to go. This week, Defence Minister Li Shangfu became the latest of…
China’s ‘standard map’ is a chilling reminder of its imperial ambitions
The Chinese Communist Party’s ‘standard map’ is updated each year to include Beijing’s ever-extending territorial claims. Neighbours see it as…
James Cleverly is clueless on China
At least James Cleverly had somebody to meet. The Foreign Secretary’s last effort to get to Beijing was postponed after…
Why is China purging its nuclear missile force?
The top commanders of China’s nuclear forces have been targeted by President Xi Jinping in his latest purge, adding an…
Will Italy leave China’s ‘atrocious’ Belt and Road Initiative?
For some time now the world has being growing increasingly wary of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but rarely…
Chinese whispers
Where has Xi’s foreign minister gone?
National insecurity
The government’s floundering over China is a gift to Labour
The strange disappearance of China’s foreign minister
It is strange and surreal, even by the standards of the looking-glass world of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Foreign…
China’s economic self-destruction
Mao Zedong had a big thing about contradictions. They were the basis of life, driving it forward, the old despot…
Britain’s China policy has been completely demolished
China is engaged in a ‘whole of state’ assault on the UK and the government’s approach has been ‘completely inadequate’.…
‘I don’t walk alone in any city’
The secretive life of China’s most controversial cartoonist
Gag order
The crackdown on China’s stand-up comics
China is forcing its chatbots to be socialist
So now it’s official, Chinese chatbots will have to be ‘socialist’ and woe betide any tech company that allows its…
Macron has made a fool of himself in China
At least there was no six metre-long table in Beijing separating Emmanuel Macron from Xi Jinping. But their meeting was…
What would be the real cost of defending Taiwan?
It’s 2026 and China begins its invasion of Taiwan with an intense missile bombardment that in a few hours destroys…
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…
Censory deprivation
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…
