China’s zero-Covid policy faces its greatest test
Tens of millions of people are under lockdown and there are fears of disruptions to global supply chains as a…
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Caught between Putin and the West, Xi Jinping faces a crucial choice on Russia
To walk away from Beijing's relationship with Moscow, Xi would have to admit he had made a mistake – that…
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Xi Jinping could stop Putin’s war in Ukraine. Will he?
If China stands with Russia, Beijing risks being isolated as US influence in the non-Western world grows.
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The poisoned peacemaker: why China can’t abandon Putin
The history of Sino-Russian relations is long and complicated, but Xi Jinping is not ready to sacrifice his relationship with…
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Nixon in China: the complicated legacy of the week that changed the world
Fifty years after the US president’s visit to Beijing heralded a new era of diplomacy, the divisions between the US…
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The battle for Eileen Gu
The Olympic freestyle skier and the geopolitics of the exceptional amid an intensifying China-US rivalry.
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“My culture will survive”: the Uyghur poet Fatimah Abdulghafur Seyyah on her family’s devastating persecution
In a series of specially commissioned poems, the writer who left China in 2010 refuses to be “defined by genocide”.
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The Uyghurs’ plight shows the biggest threat to democracy is Western apathy
We know that populist dictators are emboldened by each other’s atrocities, so how many more disappearances will it take before…
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