President Xi Jinping

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

Battle lines drawn between US democracy and China’s autocracy

China’s economy fails to shake off the curse of dodgy data

President Biden will turn up the political pressure on Beijing