China
‘We need to change course’
The shift in Tory thinking on China
It’s not us, China – it’s you
Like nearly everything named a ‘scandal’, ‘affair’ or given the post-fix ‘gate’, almost nobody now remembers the Dalai Lama affair.…
The Spectator’s notes
Mathias Döpfner is that still rare thing — an outspoken German. I have known him slightly for many years and…
Cracking the code
There’s no such thing as ‘the science’ – but facts are emerging from the Covid fog
The coronavirus catalyst
‘The normal grease of politics is not there,’ bemoans one sociable cabinet minister. Certainly, the whispered conversations in corridors that…
Viral contagion
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…
Real life
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…
View from the back end
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.…
World Health Shambles
The United States has long regarded itself as better prepared for a pandemic than any other country in the world,…
Diary
When two members of my family went down with what appears to be Covid-19, I felt concerned. What I hadn’t…
Just the beginning
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…
