Ian Williams

Ian Williams is a former foreign correspondent for Channel 4 News and NBC, and author of Every Breath You Take: China’s New Tyranny (Birlinn).

How Taishan almost became China’s Chernobyl

4 July 2021 5:00 pm

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

1 July 2021 6:32 pm

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

29 June 2021 12:52 am

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

2 May 2021 5:00 pm

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

27 April 2021 1:27 am

Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social…

War machines

17 April 2021 9:00 am

Who can take on China in the tech arms race?