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Chris Taylor

Property crash fallout engulfs Southeast Asia

August 4, 2026July 9, 2026 by Chris Taylor

Chinese companies exported its playbook across borders. Now it is exporting the collapse

Categories Analysis Tags Bangkok, China, Phnom Penh, Property Bubble, The Long Read, Zombie Developer Loans Leave a comment

Hacks and other escalations as China shows its true colors

January 9, 2025January 8, 2025 by Chris Taylor

It is time to shrug off the argument that China, with its ‘5,000 years of civilization,’ is ‘special’

Categories ChinaDiction Tags China, ChinaDiction, Hacks, News, Taiwan, United States Leave a comment

Cruising for a bruising on the rising Covid waves

November 11, 2022November 10, 2022 by Chris Taylor

The cruise industry appears more on the ball than the average China watcher when it comes to Covid restrictions

Categories ChinaDiction Tags China, ChinaDiction, Covid Outbreaks, Cruise Lines, News, Nuclear Option, President Xi Jinping, Russia, Zero-Covid Policy Leave a comment

Political ‘dream team’ is a ‘sect of Xicophants’ 

October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 by Chris Taylor

China’s General Secretary of the Communist Party has eradicated all his enemies at home – next are those abroad

Categories ChinaDiction Tags 20th National Congress, Communist Party of China, Hu Jintao, News, Politburo Members, President Xi Jinping Leave a comment

Taiwan’s motto has become ‘get it where you can’

October 4, 2022October 3, 2022 by Chris Taylor

China has put the island democracy in the invidious position of having to take whatever friends it can get

Categories ChinaDiction Tags China, Communist Party of China, Mike Pompeo, News, Taiwan Leave a comment

On the governance of modern Shanghai

May 21, 2022 by Chris Taylor

Maybe it’s harder than Xi Jinping would have us think … ripples are disturbing the waters of a harmonious China

Categories ChinaDiction Tags China, ChinaFactor, Communist Party of China, News, Political Rumors, Premier Li Keqiang, President Joe Biden, President Xi Jinping Leave a comment

China tightens the diplomatic screws on Taiwan

April 9, 2022April 9, 2022 by Chris Taylor

A report reveals that Beijing is constantly applying pressure at the United Nations to freeze out the island democracy

Categories ChinaDiction Tags China, ChinaDiction, ChinaFactor, Covid-19 Crisis, Hypersonic Missiles, News, Taiwan Leave a comment

Wang Yi raises eyebrows with New Delhi visit

March 29, 2022March 28, 2022 by Chris Taylor

India refused to take the bait after the surprise stopover from China’s Foreign Minister

Categories ChinaDiction Tags China-India Tension, ChinaDiction, ChinaFactor, News, South Pacific Risks, Taiwan, Uyghurs Leave a comment

First we take the Solomon Islands …

March 28, 2022March 27, 2022 by Chris Taylor

China is turning its eyes to the strategic importance of the South Pacific and the Solomon Islands

Categories ChinaDiction Tags ChinaDiction, Newsletter, PLA Navy, President Xi Jinping, Solomon Islands, Taiwan Leave a comment

China’s great leap of faith in the flood of the century

December 22, 2020August 20, 2020 by Chris Taylor

Concerns grow about the Three Gorges Dam and the world’s largest hydroelectricity plant

Categories Analysis Tags China, Flooding, Giant Buddha, News, Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River Leave a comment

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