President Xi Jinping

China used Covid-19 crisis to silence its political critics

China left isolated by foreign policy war of words

Rolling back the Communist Party’s red wave of fiction

Glitzy light show fails to hide the Party’s dark secrets

Crazy soundbites and ‘Wolf Warrior’ culture

Mixed messaging and Beijing’s cult of nationalism

President Xi will struggle to repair China’s shattered image

Chinese kids are just another brick in the Party wall

How Beijing waged a global Covid-19 media war

Beijing marches to the distant drumbeats of war