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Can China win the trade war against the US?

Can China win the trade war against the US?
yesterday 2

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China won’t win its ‘fight to the end’ against Trump

China won’t win its ‘fight to the end’ against Trump
previous day 5

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Vladivostok / Why Vladimir Putin is afraid of sea cucumbers

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29.03.2025 10

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Why Vladimir Putin is afraid of sea cucumbers

Why Vladimir Putin is afraid of sea cucumbers
29.03.2025 40

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Green screen / How China exploits the West’s climate anxiety

24.02.2025 5

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Green screen / China is not the West’s environmental ally

21.02.2025 10

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China is not the West’s environmental ally

20.02.2025 10

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Trump’s support for Taiwan has infuriated Beijing

19.02.2025 10

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Trump’s tariff war with China is just getting started

04.02.2025 4

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Beijing backlash / Labour’s kowtowing to China will cost Britain

13.01.2025 10

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What is the point of Rachel Reeves’s visit to Beijing?

09.01.2025 10

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China’s hacking frenzy has reached the US Treasury

When Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves visits Beijing in January on a mission to improve ‘economic and financial cooperation’ she could...

31.12.2024 7

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Keir Starmer has been too soft on China

As the fallout continues from the latest China spy scandal, it is hard not to conclude that Labour’s policy on Beijing – as far as one can be...

17.12.2024 10

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China is getting ready to take on Trump

By one estimate, Chinese military exercises close to Taiwan this week were the largest since 1996, when Beijing attempted unsuccessfully to disrupt...

15.12.2024 9

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Assad’s fall is also a blow to Beijing

Russia and Iran kept Bashar al-Assad in power and are the biggest strategic losers from the toppling of his brutal regime. But also spare a thought...

10.12.2024 5

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The corruption scandal gripping Xi Jinping’s army

In an effort to create a cutting edge force, the Chinese Communist party (CCP) has spent billions of dollars expanding and modernising its armed...

30.11.2024 4

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The paper mills helping China commit scientific fraud

Few people embody the ideal of scientific excellence as much as Albert Einstein. Each year a Berlin-based foundation bearing his name hands out...

23.11.2024 8

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Keir Starmer’s desperate cosying up to Beijing

Keir Starmer has met President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, telling the Chinese leader that he wants to build ‘consistent,...

18.11.2024 3

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Why did China censor reports of a deadly hit-and-run?

In many respects, the Chinese Communist party’s (CCP) response to one of the deadliest mass killings in recent Chinese history is drearily...

13.11.2024 4

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Will Trump and Musk fall out over China?

Xi Jinping was quick with his congratulations, urging Donald Trump to ‘forge the right path for China and the United States to get along in the new...

10.11.2024 5

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Why the Great Firewall of China is waging war on Halloween

The Chinese Communist party (CCP) is spooked by Halloween. In Shanghai, police have rounded up people gathering in costumes that included a Donald...

31.10.2024 2

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Why billionaires are fleeing China

‘To get rich is glorious’ is perhaps the most over-used slogan attributed to Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader who reformed China and opened its...

30.10.2024 20

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How cozy is Tim Walz with China?

The term ‘old friend of the Chinese people’ has a sentimental, almost innocent ring, but the Chinese Communist party (CCP) regards it as a job...

26.10.2024 4

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While Xi reigns, China’s economy is unreformable

It was presented as a bold stimulus to boost China’s ailing economy – but while it excited stock markets in Asia, Western economists were...

25.09.2024 4

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Own goal / Why can’t China play football?

It would be tough for any country to lose 7-0 in a World Cup qualifier, but when the losing team is China, and the thrashing is at the hands of...

19.09.2024 3

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What’s behind China’s overseas policing drive?

So China wants to make the world more ‘safe, reasonable and efficient’ by training thousands of police officers from across the globe to ‘help them...

15.09.2024 10

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Are Hong Kong trade offices just Chinese propaganda machines?

China has reacted with anger at American threats to close Hong Kong’s trade offices in the United States, pledging to ‘take practical and effective...

14.09.2024 7

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Xi speech warrior: Elon Musk’s love affair with China

Elon Musk revels in the role of ‘free speech absolutist’. Last week, for instance, he jumped to the defence of Pavel Durov, the head of the...

05.09.2024 1

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The cracks are appearing in Putin’s relationship with China

Relations between China and Russia are going from strength to strength – or so they say. In reality, the strain is beginning to show. ‘Against the...

22.08.2024 5

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Labour are bowing to China’s influence

The new Labour government is supposedly committed to ‘defend[ing] our sovereignty and our democratic values’, as its manifesto put it, but it...

20.08.2024 2

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The controversial truth about China’s new gas field

The news was seemingly big but the announcement curiously low key. Earlier this month, China declared that it had discovered what it described as...

17.08.2024 4

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Why Xi is anxious about Biden stepping down

The Chinese Communist party is rarely shy about highlighting America’s chaotic politics. State media and the CCP’s growing army of bots...

24.07.2024 2

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China’s Arctic ambitions should trouble the West

Four Chinese warships were spotted off the coast of Alaska last weekend. According to the US coast guard, the ships were in the Bering Sea around...

21.07.2024 2

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