Disappearing ministers show the strength – and weakness – of Xi’s regime
Less than three months after China’s foreign minister vanished, the defence minister is missing and rumoured to be under investigation.
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Britain is asking the wrong questions about China
A new realism is needed to deal with the threat from Beijing.
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How Xi Jinping views the world
China’s leader came to power determined to ensure the country's continuing rise, but he may yet turn out to be…
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What Xi Jinping’s rhetoric reveals about China’s global aims
Beijing’s call for “fighters” in leadership roles signals a battle with the West for dominance in tech.
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Peng Shuai speaks but the man she accused remains out of reach
Zhang Gaoli, the man alleged by the Chinese tennis star to have assaulted her, is unlikely to ever face questions.
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Why is anyone surprised by China’s influence in Westminster?
What seemed like good business has opened an insecure post-Brexit UK to exploitation.
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X is for Xi Jinping: At the peak of his powers, China’s president is nowhere and everywhere on the world stage
The leader didn’t leave his country once in 2021, but dominated the minds, summits and treaties of the West.
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The long shadow of the Chinese Communist Party
Even in London, supporters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement don’t feel safe.
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