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Will Samuel Pepys be cancelled next?
A seemingly obscure battle in an ecclesiastical court could threaten the security of every historic monument in the care of…
What the West can do about China’s Uyghur labour camps
Who profits from Uyghur labour camps?
How should Britain respond to the takeover of 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…
The case for Chinese reparations
It is time we started to talk about reparations. I am not of course referring to the demands made by…
How the UK can help Hong Kong
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…
The real reason for Pope Francis’s disgraceful Pompeo snub
Why did Pope Francis refuse to meet Secretary Pompeo in Rome this week? The obvious answer is that he didn’t…
The China election
Bill Clinton, in a speech heralding China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2000, remarked that ‘by joining the WTO,…
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…
The media’s TikTok blindspot
We learned about journalists this past weekend. Specifically, we learned about tech journalists who aren’t particularly interested reporting or analyzing…
Jesus College’s China problem
Although Stephen Toope, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, is committed to openness, it is a struggle to get information out of…
Why do we still struggle to see Xi’s China as a threat?
Why do we still struggle to see Xi’s China as a threat?
How Britain can tame China
Britain has a critical role to play in taming China
How Britain can tame China
Chinese leaders love to use the phrase ‘win-win’, but they actually hope to win twice and leave other nations in…
How liberal globalism went bankrupt
When future historians chronicle the period after the Cold War, the rise of China will dominate their accounts. Beginning in…
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…
China’s next target: the clock is ticking for Taiwan
After Hong Kong, is Taiwan China’s next target?
Nigel Farage: Trump is taking us back to more traditional alliances
Our Washington editor Amber Athey interviewed Nigel Farage, founder of the UK Brexit party, for a Steamboat Institute livestream. We’ve…
We need a Pompeo Plan to tame the dragon
This article is in The Spectator’s June 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. It is traditional that the serious statesperson…
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