China
Portrait of the week
Home The government, expecting a backbench rebellion over the European Arrest Warrant, did not present it for a separate vote…
Cultural revolution
We have read about the remarkable opening up of China in recent years: how many people live there and how…
Will Osborne’s tilt against Double Dutch tax dodgers play into Farage’s hands?
George Osborne’s promise to crack down on multinational companies’ avoidance of UK taxes by the use of impenetrable devices such…
Hong Kong vs China
Hong Kong’s protests reflect not just tension with the mainland, but a great Chinese tradition. That’s what really scares Beijing
The shadow of the tanks
Looking at these protests, I fear another Tiananmen
More war for oil
You can’t understand any of the world’s crises without understanding petropolitics
The green opium of the people
I was in Shanghai interviewing a Chinese film director and an actor. We were discussing government censorship. How did anyone…
How to rule the world
Genghis Khan, unlike most Mongols in history, is a household name, regularly misappropriated as a right-wing totem. If we recall…
Pfizer’s boss is winning the spin game while Miliband is losing all credibility
Pfizer will almost certainly have to offer more than its second bid of £50 a share for rival drug giant…
Putin’s winning hand
Russia is making the West look posturing, weak and divided
Investment: Be tech savvy
Technology investing has come a long way since the dotcom bust
Why a trillion dollars of dividends is a milestone worth celebrating
Dividends paid by listed companies around the world passed $1 trillion for the first time last year, we learn from…
Remaking history
What does freedom mean to you? That’s the question the BBC World Service has been asking of us through its…
Looking for racism
Britain has less prejudice than the countries where I’ve lived before – and more people taking offence
Portrait of the week
Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that average energy bills would be brought £50 lower through government…
Fragile China
For all its bombast and success, the Chinese Communist party faces a host of looming problems – and a big decision
China’s iron lady
For susceptible Englishmen of a certain inclination — like Sir Edmund Backhouse or George Macdonald Fraser — the Empress Dowager…
Investment: No service, no smile
China’s banks are weak, ill-managed puppets of the state
The leader who followed
The historian of China Frank Dikötter has taken a sledgehammer to demolish perhaps the last remaining shibboleth of modern Chinese…
Diary
It’s been a strange summer. After a stroke, holidays are not what they used to be. We went to Juan-les-Pins…
