Xi’s dangerous power trip as chairman of everything
A third term in office for China’s ‘Red Emperor’ would be a ‘tragic mistake’ and a perilous precedent
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Red lines are blurring the China-Russia relationship
President Xi Jinping’s ‘ambiguity’ policy reveals fragments of Beijing’s game plan in dealing with Moscow
Belt-tightening squeezes China’s global ambitions
Debt is piling up at home and abroad as President Xi’s New Silk Road project hits a potholed-strewn landscape
Why the ‘chip’ of state might have already sailed
Waves of change have left the semiconductor supply chain ‘simultaneously global and highly concentrated’
Taiwan’s motto has become ‘get it where you can’
China has put the island democracy in the invidious position of having to take whatever friends it can get
Meloni’s Taiwan stance shakes up Italy’s China policy
Her new government in Rome looks certain to take a different position on relations with Beijing
China’s on the hook for pillaging the oceans
Vast fishing fleets are threatening to decimate the marine ecosystem surrounding the Galapagos Islands
China mobilizes celeb culture to push Taiwan policy
Leading Chinese stars have rushed online to repost Beijing’s official line on the state of the democratic island
Economic typhoon threatens to barrel into China
‘Lost amid the hype about China’s ascent is just how poorly the country has performed under Xi’s stewardship’
United Nations must act on Uyghur human rights report
‘How these atrocities are addressed goes ultimately to the credibility of the UN system’