Uighurs

We love you, Uncle Xi!

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Tom Miller on the cult of personality that China’s ‘core leader’ has so ruthlessly constructed

An outcast in Xinjiang: The Backstreets, by Perhat Tursun, reviewed

17 September 2022 9:00 am

Like Dostoevsky’s Underground Man, Perhat Tursun’s unnamed protagonist is an outcast. A young Uighur in an increasingly Han city (Urumchi,…

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…

tiktok

The useful idiots of TikTok

19 December 2020 4:03 am

Tyrants have always had useful idiots to whitewash their crimes but few have proven as useful and idiotic as those…

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The New York Times has no editorial policy

4 October 2020 6:52 am

The New York Times put many lives in danger in June when it published an op-ed from Republican senator Tom…

pope francis

The real reason for Pope Francis’s disgraceful Pompeo snub

3 October 2020 3:35 am

Why did Pope Francis refuse to meet Secretary Pompeo in Rome this week? The obvious answer is that he didn’t…

china

Trump has been right about China for years

18 July 2020 5:00 am

Back in the summer of 2015, all the cleverest people made fun of Donald Trump for obsessing about China. One…

john bolton

The ill-timed revelations of John Bolton

18 June 2020 6:41 am

It’s starting to look as though the question isn’t who Donald Trump asked to assist him in his 2020 bid…

china

Let’s blame China

23 May 2020 3:25 am

This article is in The Spectator’s June 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Is Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to…

China’s repressive policy towards its Islamic fringe has badly backfired

1 August 2015 9:00 am

In October 2013, a jeep ploughed through a crowd of pedestrians on the edge of Tiananmen Square, crashed and burst…