Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum is China Correspondent for Channel 4 News. She has previously reported extensively from Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans and Latin America.
Articles by lindsey hilsum
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World Affairs
There are other Tibets
- 01 May 2008
In Xinjiang, as in Tibet, the government tries to bend unwilling subjects to its will, rather than accommodate the disparate cultures and beliefs
Asia
The new Terminal Three
- 17 April 2008
- 1 comment
Two new airport terminals in Beijing and London highlight the differences between China and Britain's cultures
Asia
Tibet gives the lie to the great change
- 03 April 2008
- 5 comments
All promises about freedom of reporting and improving human rights in the run-up to the Olympics appear to have been abandoned
Asia
The truth about Tibet
- 19 March 2008
- 39 comments
The last thing China wanted, in the year it is to host the Olympic Games, was the world watching its army brutally suppressing protesters
Asia
A society in transition
- 06 March 2008
The North Korean government is in suspended animation, trying to change and yet stay the same, reports Lindsey Hilsum
World Affairs
Anger of the ant farmers
- 21 February 2008
- 1 comment
The story of a rampant form of capitalism governed by personal connections, not regulation
World Affairs
What the Chinese don't know about Africa
- 07 February 2008
- 12 comments
As the former UN secretary general Kofi Annan tries to broker a deal between rival politicians in Kenya, China's much-touted new importance on the continent seems almost irrelevant
World Affairs
The global centre of gravity shifts east
- 10 January 2008
- 17 comments
Beijing wants to give the impression of a "harmonious society", yet the gap between rich and poor is growing
World Affairs
Carry on up the Yangtze
- 13 December 2007
Lindsey Hilsum on being taken up the river by the Chinese government
Asia
Coal fires threaten the globe
- 29 November 2007
- 5 comments
Under the right conditions, coal ignites spontaneously, and fires burn downwards, acquiring oxygen through fissures in the rock
