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Ian WilliamsThe Conversation |
In an effort to create a cutting edge force, the Chinese Communist party (CCP) has spent billions of dollars expanding and modernising its armed...
Few people embody the ideal of scientific excellence as much as Albert Einstein. Each year a Berlin-based foundation bearing his name hands out awards...
Keir Starmer has met President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, telling the Chinese leader that he wants to build ‘consistent,...
In many respects, the Chinese Communist party’s (CCP) response to one of the deadliest mass killings in recent Chinese history is drearily familiar....
Xi Jinping was quick with his congratulations, urging Donald Trump to ‘forge the right path for China and the United States to get along in the new...
The Chinese Communist party (CCP) is spooked by Halloween. In Shanghai, police have rounded up people gathering in costumes that included a Donald...
‘To get rich is glorious’ is perhaps the most over-used slogan attributed to Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader who reformed China and opened its...
The term ‘old friend of the Chinese people’ has a sentimental, almost innocent ring, but the Chinese Communist party (CCP) regards it as a job...
It was presented as a bold stimulus to boost China’s ailing economy – but while it excited stock markets in Asia, Western economists were...
It would be tough for any country to lose 7-0 in a World Cup qualifier, but when the losing team is China, and the thrashing is at the hands of...
So China wants to make the world more ‘safe, reasonable and efficient’ by training thousands of police officers from across the globe to ‘help...
China has reacted with anger at American threats to close Hong Kong’s trade offices in the United States, pledging to ‘take practical and...
Elon Musk revels in the role of ‘free speech absolutist’. Last week, for instance, he jumped to the defence of Pavel Durov, the head of the...
Relations between China and Russia are going from strength to strength – or so they say. In reality, the strain is beginning to show. ‘Against the...
The new Labour government is supposedly committed to ‘defend[ing] our sovereignty and our democratic values’, as its manifesto put it, but it...
The news was seemingly big but the announcement curiously low key. Earlier this month, China declared that it had discovered what it described as the...
The Chinese Communist party is rarely shy about highlighting America’s chaotic politics. State media and the CCP’s growing army of bots...
Four Chinese warships were spotted off the coast of Alaska last weekend. According to the US coast guard, the ships were in the Bering Sea around 124...
For a second day, yesterday, Chinese fighter jets and warships surrounded Taiwan for drills which the People’s Liberation Army said were designed to...
The visit by Russian president Vladimir Putin to the north-eastern Chinese city of Harbin today was no doubt designed as a symbol of the tightening...
The reports in China’s state media speak about ‘advancing national defence education in the new era’, teaching students to be ‘disciplined’,...
The personal details of members of the UK’s armed forces appear to have been the latest target of China’s prolific cyber spies, with the Ministry...
It had been billed as an electrifying encounter – the US Secretary of State preparing to confront Beijing with a catalogue of global misdemeanours,...
The target of Wednesday’s dawn raid has been on the radar of western security services for some time. There has been growing concern that Nuctech,...
In the years following his resignation as prime minister, David Cameron appeared to become the poster child for elite capture by the Chinese...
The rusting and disintegrating hulk of a former Second World War landing ship has become an unlikely but dangerous flashpoint in US-China...
A US diplomat in Beijing once told me a story of an American businessman hospitalised in the city of Ningbo after being hit at the airport by an...
This week a security deal was announced that could see Chinese police on the streets of Hungary. Despite this, there was remarkably little fanfare...
There has been a strange atmosphere at recent top level meetings between ‘best friends’ China and Russia. It is not so much the elephant in the...
Taiwan’s voters have defied Beijing’s threats and intimidation and elected as president the most independence-minded of the candidates for the...
The Chinese Communist party will no doubt throw a militarised tantrum should Saturday’s election in Taiwan be won by Lai Ching-te, the more...
People all around the world traditionally use their new year to embark on a change in lifestyle. The People’s Climate Vote, a UN survey of public...
So Yang Guang and Tian Tian are on their way back to China. Rather like a pair of high-profile celebrities, the giant pandas travelled in convoy to...