China

China’s zero-Covid policy is becoming unsustainable

16 January 2022 1:03 am

With just three weeks until the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Covid-19 is creeping ever closer to the…

Britain is finally waking up to China’s influence operations

14 January 2022 6:41 pm

The biggest surprise in Thursday’s security warning about a Chinese agent seeking to influence British politicians is that it came…

Was the Kazakhstan uprising an attempted Jihadi takeover?

11 January 2022 8:15 pm

The Kazakh uprising is over. The stench of burnt-out vehicles and bombed out buildings in Kazakhstan’s most populous city and…

The hypocrisy of Elon Musk

5 January 2022 2:31 am

Tesla’s sleek, if expensive, electric cars are leading the battle against climate change. Its batteries are moving renewable energy into the…

China could be more dangerous than ever in 2022

31 December 2021 10:43 pm

Twenty twenty-two is the year that Xi Jinping plans to seize power for life, but it is not going according to…

The Pillar of Shame and the erasure of Hong Kong

25 December 2021 3:05 am

In the dead of night one of the most prominent memorials to the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Pillar of Shame,…

What happened to China's missing tennis star?

22 December 2021 3:25 am

Did a senior Chinese politician rape one of the country’s leading tennis stars? That certainly seemed to be the allegation…

China is right to laugh at the west

10 December 2021 6:54 am

Signs of the enervating weakness of the west’s governing elites aren’t that hard to find but the case of the…

China’s growing influence over the Commonwealth’s armies

29 November 2021 8:00 am

On Monday in the city of Bridgetown, Prince Charles will be forced to witness the spectacle of Barbados officially becoming a…

Fears over Mandarin shortage in Whitehall

24 November 2021 1:45 am

‘China Spy Blitz’ blared the Sun this morning: ‘UK spooks hiring Mandarin speakers in cyber war.’ Spy bosses, the paper…

Peng Shuai appears in sinister ‘proof of life’ video

21 November 2021 4:40 pm

The Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai sits in a crowded restaurant surrounded by friends and her coach, who is going…

China has begun its campaign to take Taiwan

13 November 2021 9:00 am

Normally, if the response to a speech of mine was that it had been a ‘despicable and insane performance’ from…

British MPs in the dark about Beijing's threats

6 November 2021 10:05 am

Following the killing of Sir David Amess, there has been much discussion in recent weeks about the safety of elected representatives. But…

Cold War, hot planet

6 November 2021 9:40 am

Chelyabinsk is one of the most polluted places in the world. On 29 September 1957, an explosion ripped through the…

National Trust members fight back

6 November 2021 9:00 am

At the National Trust’s annual general meeting last week, the voting was much more unusual than the public will have…

Don’t let China’s climate sins cloak its crushing of Hong Kong

6 November 2021 9:00 am

China’s failure to bring anything new to COP26 surprised no one. The world’s worst carbon emitter offered no advance on…

China’s great log forward

5 November 2021 8:27 pm

Every year, China plants trees over an area the size of Ireland. The country may be the biggest polluter on…

Peng Shuai and the limits of China’s #MeToo movement

5 November 2021 7:14 am

China’s #MeToo movement has taken a step closer to the centre of power in Beijing, after sexual abuse allegations by…

India is going to keep polluting. They can thank China

4 November 2021 12:00 am

Mumbai India is the last major global polluter to set a date to go carbon neutral. In a surprise announcement…

China’s energy crisis

31 October 2021 12:25 pm

The absence of Xi Jinping from COP26 in Glasgow this weekend should strip away any illusion that China is a…

The rise and fall of Jack Ma

28 October 2021 8:30 am

Jack Ma used to give rock star performances for his employees at Alibaba, Asia’s biggest online commerce company. He once…

Wuhan clan: the price I paid for my lab leak exposé

23 October 2021 9:00 am

The price I paid for my lab leak exposé

China is using the climate as a bargaining chip

9 October 2021 9:00 am

For China, the climate is a useful bargaining chip

Xi threatens Taiwan because he's weak

5 October 2021 7:55 am

Over the weekend, China sent waves of warplanes racing towards Taiwan in numbers not seen before, forcing the democratic self-ruled…

Will China’s ‘digital yuan’ reinvent money as we know it?

2 October 2021 9:00 am

The rise of the digital yuan