Do We Really Want a New Cold War?
Politicians and the commentariat keep shouting “China is not our friend!” But friendship is a good thing, the most rewarding of all human relationships.
James Hankins
· 6 min read
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PODCAST 90: John Lloyd on the Geopolitical Fall-Out From the Coronavirus Crisis
John Lloyd, co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out from the coronavirus crisis. Will the Conservatives win the next UK election? Can the EU recover its authority? And is this China’s Chernobyl? John recently wrote about
Toby Young
· 1 min read
Press Censorship Has Always Hurt Democracy. In the Age of COVID-19, It's Also Killing People
Freedom of the press is a fundamental human right and a key pillar of democracy.
Brad Polumbo
· 5 min read
Will There Be a New Cold War with China? A Reply to Niall Ferguson
Americans have suddenly grown fearful of the growth of Chinese power.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
China: Exploiting False Accusations of Racism
When confronted, China frequently accuses its critics of racism. Last month, for example, Beijing expelled three Wall Street Journal reporters in retribution for an opinion column titled “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia.” China Daily, a Communist Party mouthpiece, declared the headline “astonishingly racist”—despite the fact the
Thomas Brown
· 3 min read
How Damaging Will the Coronavirus be to Xi Jinping’s Authority?
Xi’s hope is that he can present himself as the strong man—the decisive leader—who saved China and the world from the virus.
Brian Eaton
· 5 min read
Why Taiping 2.0 Isn't in the Cards: A Reply to 'China’s Looming Class Struggle'
Most Chinese farmers are still quite poor by western standards, or those of their city-mouse kin.
D. Marshall
· 9 min read
China's Looming Class Struggle
Being able to improve the lives of the people was always seen as a critical element assuring the Imperial “mandate of heaven.”
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism
China’s ability to make America’s biggest companies dance to its tune exposes woke capitalism as the sanctimonious scam that it is.
Zaid Jilani
· 8 min read
Hong Kong: First Line of Defence against a Rising Fascist Power
The total authoritarian control that Xi craves has been denied to him for the first time since he took office.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
How the Hong Kong Protestors’ Tactical Brilliance Backed Beijing into a Corner
Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.
Nick Taber
· 9 min read
China and the Difficulties of Dissent
As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.
Simon Leitch
· 14 min read
Why China is Hiding the Horrors of Its Past
While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read
China is Gearing up for a Long Fight
If China is responsible for the attack on the Australian parliament, the intelligence that it has gathered could be very useful in eroding the appeal of democracy worldwide.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read
Understanding China's Confucian Edge in the Global AI Race
China now stands poised to lead the world in the development of artificial-intelligence technologies, which rely, for their machine-learning algorithms.
Craig Smith
· 5 min read