Chinese Communist Party
Fragile China: who’s really in charge?
Xi Jinping effectively vanished in July and the first half of August. Some China watchers speculated that his unexplained absence…
Gag order
The crackdown on China’s stand-up comics
For the chop
Like Dostoevsky’s Underground Man, Perhat Tursun’s unnamed protagonist is an outcast. A young Uighur in an increasingly Han city (Urumchi,…
I’d be the perfect communist shill
Could I be the model communist shill? Consider these facts: I was born and raised in China. I speak and…
China’s baby bust
The demographic crisis might stall its rise
Chinese checkers
The threat our politicians don’t seem to have noticed
Shanghai’s shame
China’s lockdown protestors cannot be silenced
Is an anti-Xi resistance emerging?
From the 1980s to 2017, at least every five years, China’s National Party Congress would be a moment of intriguing…
Centre of attention
The cosy links between Cambridge and the CCP
Target practice
Britain is still too complacent about Chinese influence
Wuhan clan
The price I paid for my lab leak exposé
China’s manhunt
Is anywhere safe for the Uighurs?
Infernal censorship
How Dante fell foul of the Chinese Communist party
The Spectator’s Notes
A seemingly obscure battle in an ecclesiastical court could threaten the security of every historic monument in the care of…
China’s forced issue
Who profits from Uyghur labour camps?
Lessons from Hong Kong
The West’s approach to China must change
Beijing revels in Washington’s chaos
The events on Capitol Hill were always going to be met with schadenfreude — perhaps even glee — among autocracies in…
The useful idiots of TikTok
Tyrants have always had useful idiots to whitewash their crimes but few have proven as useful and idiotic as those…
The Democrats don’t care what you think about their scandals
I’ve watched with a mixture of amusement and surprise over the last few days as my right-wing friends have descended…
MIT’s China problem
Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at Georgia Tech on Wednesday about the Chinese Communist party’s undue influence on American higher education.…
Hunter becomes the hunted
Are the chickens coming home for Hunter Biden? It certainly seems so, though experts differ on the critical question of…
China needs to make reparations
It is time we started to talk about reparations. I am not of course referring to the demands made by…
One country, one system
Beijing’s authority is sweeping through Hong Kong
Rejoining the WHO will be Joe Biden’s first mistake as president
In emails obtained by the Associated Press, the World Health Organization reveals it has recorded 65 cases of coronavirus among…
Tony Bobulinski and implausible deniability
It turns out that the 2020 US presidential election is not between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, as we have…
