China
Boris’s China plan is a missed opportunity
From Brexit to China, ‘cakeism’ – the idea that it is possible to govern without making hard choices – appears…
The West has lost its moral high ground
International travellers running the gauntlet of English airports must already test negative for Covid before the flight, and on return…
Infernal censorship
How Dante fell foul of the Chinese Communist party
The curious censorship of Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland
Fortunes shift quickly in Chinese cyberspace. On March 1, Chloé Zhao, the Beijing-born film director, was the ‘pride of China’,…
Covid kids’ book pulped after China complains
World Book Day was last Thursday and now a leading German publisher has belatedly marked the occasion by pulping copies…
How the West can avoid Beijing’s propaganda trap
This time next year the Winter Olympics will have drawn to a close. Beijing will have become the first city…
The Spectator’s Notes
There is a ‘pervasive presence of Chinese military-linked conglomerates and universities in the sponsorship of high-technology research centres in many…
Inside the Tory party’s China split
Back in 2005, Boris Johnson wrote that among geopolitical gloomsters, China was becoming the ‘fashionable new dread’. They were obsessed…
Passage to India
Can Biden’s America contain China?
The new great game
An international power tussle over vaccines is under way
Portrait of the Week
Home The target was achieved of vaccinating, by the middle of February, about 15 million people of 70 or over,…
Why Eastern Europe is looking to Russia and China for vaccines
With Central and Eastern European countries still gripped by Covid-19, the EU’s slow vaccine rollout has offered little solace in…
The Spectator’s Notes
‘Tencent Wykeham’ has a ring to it. It captures how easily British universities can be bought. It is the new…
Is China’s hidden hand behind the Myanmar coup?
Was China involved in the coup in Myanmar? It seems unlikely, but that does not mean Beijing is blameless. As satisfying…
Letters
Paradise lost Sir: After reading Jonathan Beswick (‘Critical mass’, 16 January) I am writing to express the shame I feel…
Portrait of the week
Home The government undertook to offer a first dose of vaccine to the adult population of the UK by September.…
China’s forced issue
Who profits from Uyghur labour camps?
Brexit Britain’s new place in the world
What will Brexit Britain do differently? This is going to be the most important question in our politics for the…
Lessons from Hong Kong
The West’s approach to China must change
Letters
Lockdown damage Sir: I am sick and tired of people taking the moral high ground and looking down on ‘lockdown…
Letters
Veritas vincit Sir: Professor Dawkins eloquently and engagingly defines true truth for us (‘Matters of fact’, 19 December). It seems…
Nigel Farage’s China curveball should worry the Tory party
I have lost count of the number of times the Conservative Party has thought it has shot Nigel Farage’s fox.…
The EU is taking a gamble with China
It took Brussels and Beijing seven years to agree an investment deal. A deal that, until its conclusion a few…
The fight for liberalism
The world has many island nations, and sometimes the United States counts itself among them. We have water on either side of us,…
Letters
Joy Sir: Alexandra Coghlan identifies the coincidence between the rise of recording and broadcast technology and the flourishing of the…
