China Watch

Is China really ‘ready for war’?

American weakness has boosted Beijing’s confidence.

Europe and Taiwan are both targets of subsea cable sabotage

Such operations, in peacetime, offer a high dividend to aggressor states.

India-China rivalry could be the real Thucydides Trap

What if, rather than China being the emerging power coming to challenge America’s dominance, China is the existing dominant force heading for conflict with rising superpower India?

America trumps China in Panama superpower contest

Panama, a small country occupying the strip of land between Central and South America, has become the site of a global superpower struggle.

How we lifted the lid on China’s Covid cover-up

Scientists said it was ‘misinformation’, but I and other researchers uncovered extensive evidence of a lab leak.

How we lifted the lid on China’s Covid cover-up

Scientists said it was ‘misinformation’, but I and other researchers uncovered extensive evidence of a lab leak.

DeepSeek: China outpaces US in AI arms race

The emergence of a Chinese rival to ChatGPT is being labelled “AI’s Sputnik moment”.

Trump’s foreign policy is all about China

The warnings about a new ‘isolationist’ America ignore the true priorities of the incoming administration.

Will China go to war with Trump?

Will China go to war with Trump?

China will struggle to reverse its demographic crisis

A demographic crisis continues to loom over the world’s second largest economy, as new figures out today reveal that China’s population has shrunk for a third consecutive year.

Will China go to war with Trump?

As Rachel Reeves returns from China she must be under no illusions, UK’s economic crisis is real

Chinese takeaway won’t fill UK coffers IT IS almost 46 years to the day that a Labour PM returned from abroad to dismiss evidence that Britain was gripped by economic chaos, creating the famous Sun…

China has a bond crisis of its own

While economists in the UK sound the alarm bells over domestic market chaos, further afield, China is contending with a bond crisis of its own.

How China burned German industry

The British scientists working for China

Hong Kong’s freedoms are hanging by a thread

Forty-five brave activists will spend up to a decade behind bars for challenging the CCP’s tyranny.

Hong Kong’s freedoms are hanging by a thread

Forty-five brave activists will spend up to a decade behind bars for challenging the CCP’s tyranny.

Our Government sees Chinese money as crucial for growth – but there is a naivety to befriending a...

Phony friends AS he cosied up to China at the G20, was Keir Starmer aware that Beijing was doing exactly the same with its REAL friends from the Kremlin? “A strong UK-China relationship is importan…