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In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.
Some leaders in Europe may resist a new alliance with Trump’s America, but in a world dominated by bullies, sharp elbows and unpredictability may be what the times demand.
The Communist Party bears responsibility for the outbursts of Chinese hatred against Japan and its citizens.
It is time for democratic countries to accept that the existing system is broken and that they must develop a new global security architecture.
Only robust deterrence from Washington can thwart China’s designs in the South China Sea.
If the United States abandons Europe, Beijing will be more emboldened than ever.
As Moscow’s dependence on Beijing grows, the CCP has set its sights on the Russian Far East.
For the Taiwanese, independence is not just a matter of national pride, it is a requisite for their dignity and their right to choose their own civilisational path.
It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself.
The British establishment’s China policy resembles a man periodically waking only to fall asleep again.
The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies.
As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened.
Wary of the Abrahamic faiths and increasingly contemptuous of Karl Marx’s alternative, young Chinese are drawn instead to tarot, divination, healers, and mediums.
The themes of Liu Cixin’s trilogy undermine his protestations of loyalty to the People’s Republic.
The Chinese Communist Party lives, breathes, and hallucinates espionage.