China
Fake news is spreading faster than the virus
The uncontainable spread of fake coronavirus news
The 2020 question: which candidate will stand up to China?
Imagine you are in your late thirties living in Ohio working at a steel or other manufacturing plant in the…
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,…
Have we been fighting a very different disease to China?
One of the great mysteries of coronavirus is how the epidemic has become much more severe in Europe and North…
I’m imposing a one-woman trade embargo on China
Without making any efforts in that direction, I now know all about a certain telecom firm’s future business plans. My…
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…
How The Spectator discovered Helen Mirren
From Enoch Powell to Danny La Rue: Hilary Spurling looks back on her time in charge of the arts and books pages in the 1960s
Did Australia's China-scepticism prepare it for Covid-19?
As Britain struggles through the eye of the coronavirus storm, it is difficult not to cast our eyes across the…
China is using coronavirus to crack down on Hong Kong
One thing’s for sure: when the history of Covid-19 is written, we’re going to need a few chapters on those…
Time to crush China’s Arctic influence
Eyes are opening to the evil of the authoritarian Chinese regime that represses its people, genocides entire cultures, and influences…
'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…
China must pay a diplomatic price for its cover-up
When it comes to China, Dominic Raab says: ‘We can’t have business as usual after this crisis’. Business as usual…
How Bill Clinton junked America’s supremacy
‘This is a good day for America,’ said President Bill Clinton on May 24, the Year of Our Lord 2000.…
Trump has a point – the WHO has failed
The United States has long regarded itself as better prepared for a pandemic than any other country in the world,…
How did the virus get past my Obsessive Compulsive Corona Disorder?
When two members of my family went down with what appears to be Covid-19, I felt concerned. What I hadn’t…
Globalisation is scarcely new: it dates back to the year 1000
In Japan, people thought the world would end in 1052. In the decades leading up to judgment day, Kyoto was…
Pompeo: China must be more transparent
While coronavirus ravages the world, a political battle is also being waged with China resisting suggestions that it’s to blame.…
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…
Questioning coronavirus origins is not a conspiracy
The exact origins of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, remain unknown. We know only that it began in the Wuhan province…
Italy gave China PPE to help with coronavirus — then China made them buy it back
China has tried to restore its image after lying to the world about the seriousness of its coronavirus outbreak, but…
How will the world be changed by the war against coronavirus?
What will post-coronavirus economies and societies look like?
The longer lockdown continues, the more imperilled we become
Comically, Chinese Communist party officials have speculated that Covid-19 was planted by the US army. Yet a respectable conspiracy theorist…
How will the world be changed by the war against coronavirus?
The world as we have known it for the past 40 years has come to a stop. We have a…
How will the ‘war’ on coronavirus change Britain?
In the past ten days we have seen the greatest expansion of state power in British history. The state has…
