Tag: China
What the China-Russia axis really means for the West
The marriage of convenience between Moscow and Beijing is a product of American decline
Read the full article...Far-East freakout
On the other side of the world, tensions are growing
Read the full article...Could the Philippines be the spark for the next global conflict?
A row over a tiny Filipino island in the South China Sea has ramped up tensions between the US and China
Read the full article...What is China doing in the Philippines?
The South China Sea is a tinderbox waiting to ignite
Read the full article...China is in crisis
Xi is strengthening his grip over his party, the military and society
Read the full article...Taiwan’s future is more uncertain than ever
The fall in support for Taiwan’s anti-Beijing government will embolden Xi Jinping
Read the full article...The struggle for Taiwan
The stand-off between China and the US is at serious risk of escalating
Read the full article...Why the world cannot ignore South Korea
How Seoul navigates the tensions between China and the West will have major repercussions for us all
Read the full article...Jiang Zemin and the end of the era of openness
The late CCP bureaucrat’s liberalising reforms have made him an unlikely figure of nostalgia
Read the full article...China has Taiwan on its mind, not Ukraine
Xi has little interest in getting dragged into Russia’s war
Read the full article...China is playing a cynical game in Ukraine
Beijing has one eye on Kyiv, the other on Taiwan
Read the full article...Is China about to invade Taiwan?
Xi Jinping is hesitant – and he has good reason to be
Read the full article...Taking China to task
Andrew Marr was right to grill the CCP over its brutal treatment of Uighur Muslims. Brits must resist easy moral posturing, however.
Read the full article...What’s really behind the Huawei ban?
The security case against Huawei has always been weak
Read the full article...Boycott China? Don’t be stupid
China is set to become even more central to the world economy after Covid than it was before
Read the full article...Covid-19 and the Chinese economy
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
Read the full article...There is no ‘appeasement’ of China
On the 80th anniversary of Dunkirk, we should remember not to dress up today’s conflicts in the politics of the past
Read the full article...Dunkirk and the appeasement of China
An old narrative makes itself felt
Read the full article...China since Wuhan
China expert Austin Williams and I introduce a debate on the internal and external dimensions of the Middle Kingdom’s economics and politics
Read the full article...Taiwan’s blow for democracy
Inspired by the Hong Kong protests, Taiwan has decisively rejected Beijing rule
Read the full article...Ageing in China
Sky News interview on ageing in China and government interest in shaping family sizes
Read the full article...China and India set the pace in space
Fifty years on from the first Moon landings, the human conquest of space has changed
Read the full article...Trump’s trade war with Huawei
Sky News discussion on Trump’s trade war with Huawei
Read the full article...China’s supernova cities
By 2020, the Chinese government hopes to have a new and national Social Credit System (SCS) ready.
Read the full article...China isn’t the only country censoring the web
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.
Read the full article...Electric car, Made in China
Few in the West have taken the full measure of China’s drive toward electric vehicles
Read the full article...The future of sleep
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.
Read the full article...Trade, automation and US decline
Job losses in US manufacturing can’t simply be put down to China or IT
Read the full article...China’s productivity
The use of labour has been China’s main economic strength. Can it move beyond that?
Read the full article...China’s leap forward on patents
How groundbreaking are China’s patents? How innovative really is China?
Read the full article...Chinese innovation assessed
Can China innovate? How might its innovations change the rest of the world?
Read the full article...International Intrigue and a Slow Web in China’s Dalian
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
Read the full article...China in space: conquests, reversals – and revival
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
Read the full article...Computer games in China – some battles on screen, more in the market
The Chinese Communist Party won’t permit lurid content, but commercial competition in the games sector is pretty bloodthirsty
Read the full article...China: big shale reserves, but little fracking before 2020
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
Read the full article...China struggles to engineer robot revolution
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.
Read the full article...The Giants of Asia
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
Read the full article...Japan and China – could tension between them lead to war?
Japanese and Chinese diplomats met on Wednesday for urgent talks over a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Read the full article...Rare earths and not-so-rare tensions
The US government’s threat to take China to court for hoarding precious elements is more than just a trade dispute.
Read the full article...‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned’
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.
Read the full article...Eco-imperialism is alive and well in the West
The West’s pleading with China to cut carbon emissions bursts with ulterior motives
Read the full article...Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth
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.
Read the full article...Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’
Ignore the Yellow Peril view of Chinese economic growth as dirty and dangerous. There are good reasons to welcome China’s leaps forward.
Read the full article...Is the Red Dragon a green threat?
Ignore the scaremongering of environmentalist writers and thinkers: China should be free to develop as it wishes.
Read the full article...China Telecom gains global reach
China Telecom is one of the world’s most dynamic telcos and is touting for European business.
Read the full article...Constructive ideas from the East
China needs new homes – don’t we all?
Read the full article...New players on the IT stage
Recent moves by a Chinese PC maker and an Indian teleco highlight the global forces reshaping IT
Read the full article...The graphics of China
Chinese graphic design in the twentieth century, by Scott Minick and Jiao Ping, Thames & Hudson, 1990
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In order to have precisely no influence on the climate, but to make powerful people feel good about themselves we will have to suffer energy rationing.
Their virtue, our pain.
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls