How Comrade Xi bungled China’s sinking economy
The Party is over as government debt spirals and wages stagnate amid record-high unemployment
Between The Lines
Gloom and doom surround China’s bleak economy
Foreign firms ‘now have very little visibility into the true economic conditions’ inside the country
China bytes back at the United States and its allies
Beijing’s export ban on rare earth minerals crucial to chip production highlights high-tech war
Beijing quick to scupper high-level military talks
China tries to goad the United States into dropping sanctions as the two superpowers lock horns
Someone in the world doesn’t know Xi is a dictator
New Zealand’s rookie PM Chris Hipkins wades into the US-China diplomatic row after Biden’s comments about Xi
War with China leaves Washington ‘freaking out’
Pentagon planners ‘fear that Beijing understands the deficiency in American readiness’ for a Taiwan conflict
Why Xi will not be tuning into US drama Succession
There is not a single candidate waiting in the wings to take over from China’s ‘Chairman of Everything’
Comrade Xi’s obsession with national security
Shifts in Chinese policy will be ‘increasingly shaped’ by ‘security considerations’ not ‘economic ones’
For ‘de-risk,’ read ‘decouple’ in the war of words
It is time to ‘not kid ourselves’ when it comes to the relationship between the United States and China
Ghost in the works stalling China-US talks
Xi Jinping gives Joe Biden the cold shoulder as relations deteriorate between the two superpowers