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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Asia
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
Asia
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
Asia
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
Asia
In Lahore, it's good to talk
- 15 November 2007
- 1 comment
Chinese reporters may be individually brave and determined but each one is on his or her own
Asia
Drugs bring Beijing into Burma
- 01 November 2007
- 1 comment
China doesn't care about democracy in Burma, only about stability
Asia
The great bore of the people
- 18 October 2007
The Chinese economy is like a runaway horse - the government is torn between trying to rein it back, or just clinging on. The leaders' main fear is of falling off
World Affairs
Why Burma was crushed
- 04 October 2007
- 13 comments
As Burmese pro-democracy activists are rounded up, the west looks to China to intervene. We are failing to see the seismic changes that authoritarian capitalism is bringing the world.
Asia
Why Beijing cares about tiny Nauru
- 20 September 2007
- 5 comments
Economically, China has changed beyond re cognition, but Mao Zedong's heirs remain in power, and for them Taiwan is still an essential cause
Asia
Tibet: Death by consumerism
- 30 August 2007
- 4 comments
As part of its "civilising mission" - and to deter independence - China is taking control of the Tibetan economy. Modernity is being imposed by force, creating ghettos and spreading deprivation across the countryside
