China
A toast to Tim
I am in an Eliot mood, not a Keatsian one. ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ is a surprisingly… mellow…
Erdogan’s game
Why Turkey is severing its links with the West
Who’d want the job of vaccinating the nation?
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel — or a second lockdown thundering unstoppably towards us? News…
Advantage Xi
Covid has accelerated China’s rise
Portrait of The Lady
It’s as ignorant to demonise Aung San Suu Kyi as it was to idolise her
Why is the media downplaying the Hunter Biden story?
Remember the Ukraine impeachment drama? No? Cockburn can hardly blame you. But believe it or not, less than nine months…
Letters
China’s covered Sir: If Charles Moore had contacted the BBC, rather than conducting a fruitless Google search, we would have…
Under the jackboot
‘Free Tibet!’ used to be a rallying cry for Hollywood A-listers and rock stars. Richard Gere hung out with the…
The vaccine goalposts have shifted
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock provided a vaccine update this morning London time, reporting that the chances of the Oxford…
Hundrum
Mulan is Disney’s latest live-action remake, coming in at 120 minutes, compared with the 1998 animation, which ran to 80.…
Sink or swim
Is China’s virus strategy paying off?
China disappears at the DNC
Members of media hailed the all-digital Democratic National Convention and convention coordinator Stephanie Cutter, the former Obama adviser famous for…
Small is beautiful
The novelist, memoirist and film-maker Xiaolu Guo writes with tremendous delicacy and nuance about migration, language, alienation, and love. A…
Soho moonwalk
Back to the West End at last. After a four- month lay-off, I grabbed the first available chance to catch…
Sea change
China has its sights on the Bay of Bengal
The Spectator’s Notes
Although Stephen Toope, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, is committed to openness, it is a struggle to get information out of…
The influence game
Why do we still struggle to see Xi’s China as a threat?
Welcome to authoritarian Hong Kong
The national security law in Hong Kong has been passed for just over a month, but the scope of Beijing’s…
Wolf at the door
Britain has a critical role to play in taming China
China’s ambassador has no answer to the treatment of Uighur Muslims
When Liu Xiaoming agreed to come on the Andrew Marr show, he ought to have expected that – as the…
Wars and unjust peace
In 1984, China agreed a ‘one country, two systems’ treaty with the UK, designed to control the relationship between Hong…
Trump has been right about China for years
Back in the summer of 2015, all the cleverest people made fun of Donald Trump for obsessing about China. One…
The Spectator’s Notes
There are far more Chinese students in British universities than there are from the entire Commonwealth. Many universities have been…
No one loves a despot
Displaying the pristine neutrality that has made her such a popular figure, Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis apparently tweeted the following last…
Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced measures intended to stimulate the economy. Under a £111 million scheme,…
