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Tag: China

Xi Putin meeting 2024

What the China-Russia axis really means for the West

Published 25 May 2024

The marriage of convenience between Moscow and Beijing is a product of American decline

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China Coast Guard

Far-East freakout

Published 2 May 2024

On the other side of the world, tensions are growing

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Philippine army

Could the Philippines be the spark for the next global conflict?

Published 23 April 2024

A row over a tiny Filipino island in the South China Sea has ramped up tensions between the US and China

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China Coast Guard

What is China doing in the Philippines?

Published 3 April 2024

The South China Sea is a tinderbox waiting to ignite

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Xi Jinping, China

China is in crisis

Published 12 March 2024

Xi is strengthening his grip over his party, the military and society

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Taiwan election 2024

Taiwan’s future is more uncertain than ever

Published 16 January 2024

The fall in support for Taiwan’s anti-Beijing government will embolden Xi Jinping

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Taiwan flag ceremony

The struggle for Taiwan

Published 12 June 2023

The stand-off between China and the US is at serious risk of escalating

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Yoon Suk Yeol

Why the world cannot ignore South Korea

Published 25 April 2023

How Seoul navigates the tensions between China and the West will have major repercussions for us all

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Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin and the end of the era of openness

Published 20 December 2022

The late CCP bureaucrat’s liberalising reforms have made him an unlikely figure of nostalgia

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Ukraine and Taiwan

China has Taiwan on its mind, not Ukraine

Published 16 March 2022

Xi has little interest in getting dragged into Russia’s war

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Russia and China

China is playing a cynical game in Ukraine

Published 3 March 2022

Beijing has one eye on Kyiv, the other on Taiwan

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Chinese soldiers

Is China about to invade Taiwan?

Published 14 September 2021

Xi Jinping is hesitant – and he has good reason to be

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Britain China relations

Taking China to task

Published 20 July 2020

Andrew Marr was right to grill the CCP over its brutal treatment of Uighur Muslims. Brits must resist easy moral posturing, however.

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Huawei 5G

What’s really behind the Huawei ban?

Published 15 July 2020

The security case against Huawei has always been weak

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US China trade

Boycott China? Don’t be stupid

Published 8 June 2020

China is set to become even more central to the world economy after Covid than it was before

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President XI Jinping

Covid-19 and the Chinese economy

Published 4 June 2020

At an Academy of Ideas discussion chaired by Rob Lyons, architecture guru Austin Williams (at 5m) and James (at 23m) talk about China’s history, its economy and its prospects

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Xi Jinping, 2019

There is no ‘appeasement’ of China

Published 27 May 2020

On the 80th anniversary of Dunkirk, we should remember not to dress up today’s conflicts in the politics of the past

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Dunkirk soldier

Dunkirk and the appeasement of China

Published 26 May 2020

An old narrative makes itself felt

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China and Covid

China since Wuhan

Published 15 May 2020

China expert Austin Williams and I introduce a debate on the internal and external dimensions of the Middle Kingdom’s economics and politics

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Tsai Ing Wen

Taiwan’s blow for democracy

Published 13 January 2020

Inspired by the Hong Kong protests, Taiwan has decisively rejected Beijing rule

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Sky News on ageing in China

Ageing in China

Published 30 December 2019

Sky News interview on ageing in China and government interest in shaping family sizes

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China’s Yutu-2 rover parked to the left of its Chang'e-4 lander

China and India set the pace in space

Published 19 July 2019

Fifty years on from the first Moon landings, the human conquest of space has changed

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Sky News on Trump trade war with Huawei

Trump’s trade war with Huawei

Published 6 June 2019

Sky News discussion on Trump’s trade war with Huawei

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China's supernova cities

China’s supernova cities

Published 30 December 2017

By 2020, the Chinese government hopes to have a new and national Social Credit System (SCS) ready.

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The Great Firewall of China

China isn’t the only country censoring the web

Published 8 August 2017

Last weekend, that supreme and unimpeachable force for worldwide progress, Apple Computer, withdrew perhaps 60 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) from its App Store in China.

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Chinese NextEV electric car

Electric car, Made in China

Published 12 July 2017

Few in the West have taken the full measure of China’s drive toward electric vehicles

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The future of sleep

The future of sleep

Published 15 June 2017

Folks, I have seen the future of sleep. It is Chinese, and cheap. Man Wah Holdings, a £700m furniture company headquartered in Hong Kong, has brought its new SleepCheers mattresses to showrooms in North Carolina.

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Problem with US economy

Trade, automation and US decline

Published 19 January 2017

Job losses in US manufacturing can’t simply be put down to China or IT

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China's productivity

China’s productivity

Published 7 December 2015

The use of labour has been China’s main economic strength. Can it move beyond that?

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China's patent assessed

China’s leap forward on patents

Published 30 March 2015

How groundbreaking are China’s patents? How innovative really is China?

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Innovation in Shanghai, China

Chinese innovation assessed

Published 18 December 2014

Can China innovate? How might its innovations change the rest of the world?

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Eagle

International Intrigue and a Slow Web in China’s Dalian

Published 4 August 2014

Not a lot of Westerners have heard of Dalian, a major port and a centre for financial services logistics and higher education in northeast China

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China in space: conquests, reversals – and revival

Published 18 February 2014

The success, relapse and then partial resuscitation of its lunar explorer Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, should awaken us to the broad advance China has achieved in space

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Computer games in China – some battles on screen, more in the market

Published 16 December 2013

The Chinese Communist Party won’t permit lurid content, but commercial competition in the games sector is pretty bloodthirsty

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Fracking in China

China: big shale reserves, but little fracking before 2020

Published 26 September 2013

When China finally gets fracking, there’ll be enough water to do the job. And fracking won’t kill  the number of people coal does

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China's robot revolution

China struggles to engineer robot revolution

Published 13 July 2013

Just as China’s strengths in cyberwar have stirred Western perceptions of a nation on the move, so its talents in robotics could be the stuff of nightmares.

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The Giants of Asia, Battle of Ideas 2012

The Giants of Asia

Published 21 October 2012

2018 note: With their huge populations and buoyant growth rates, China and India are two of the economic and technological powerhouses of the twenty-first century. And though many seem to forget it after two lost decades, Japan is the third largest economy in the world, the second largest developed economy and the world’s largest creditor nation. Over the past 10 years, too, growth in Japanese GDP per head has also outpaced that of Europe and the US

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Japan and China – could tension between them lead to war?

Published 28 September 2012

Japanese and Chinese diplomats met on Wednesday for urgent talks over a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.

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Rare earths and not-so-rare tensions

Published 27 March 2012

The US government’s threat to take China to court for hoarding precious elements is more than just a trade dispute.

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When a billion Chinese jump

‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned’

Published 27 August 2010

A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril.

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Eco-imperialism is alive and well in the West

Published 12 July 2008

The West’s pleading with China to cut carbon emissions bursts with ulterior motives

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Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth

Published 12 September 2007

Those calling on China and India to ‘kick the coal habit’, and opt for less sooty forms of energy, overlook the vast benefits of coal-use for those nations.

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Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’

Published 24 July 2007

Ignore the Yellow Peril view of Chinese economic growth as dirty and dangerous. There are good reasons to welcome China’s leaps forward.

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Is the Red Dragon a green threat?

Published 23 June 2007

Ignore the scaremongering of environmentalist writers and thinkers: China should be free to develop as it wishes.

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China Telecom gains global reach

Published 21 August 2006

China Telecom is one of the world’s most dynamic telcos and is touting for European business.

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Constructive ideas from the East

Published 13 October 2005

China needs new homes – don’t we all?

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New players on the IT stage

Published 5 April 2004

Recent moves by a Chinese PC maker and an Indian teleco highlight the global forces reshaping IT

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Chinese Propaganda

The graphics of China

Published 12 November 1990

Chinese graphic design in the twentieth century, by Scott Minick and Jiao Ping, Thames & Hudson, 1990

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