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
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
- 5 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
Asia
Olympic winners and losers
- 02 August 2007
- 2 comments
Re-development ahead of Beijing 2008 is forcing tens of thousands from their homes
Asia
Now we know why the buns taste odd
- 19 July 2007
- 2 comments
Chinese goods undercut the rest because not much is spent on safety, many products are counterfeited or developed from stolen intellectual property rights
Asia
Give us democracy - but not yet
- 05 July 2007
We may be seeing the beginnings of a new, more robust, ideology in China and Russia that combines capitalist economics with illiberal government
Asia
An outrage too far
- 21 June 2007
An internet protest over human trafficking shakes the grip of the Chinese censors
