World Cup Dreams and Own Goals — Football in China
Despite the extra places on offer at this year’s expanded FIFA World Cup Finals, the Chinese men’s soccer team once again failed to qualify, continuing a series of disappointments dating back to 2002,...
17 Jun 39min
Did China trump Trump? — After the Beijing summit
Donald Trump's visit to Beijing, the first by a US president in nine years, not only included plenty of pageantry, but produced some apparently substantive agreements. Aside from China resuming purcha...
21 Mai 42min
China's Middle East Balancing Act — Peace plans, pragmatism and economic prospects
The war in the Middle East has affected China in many ways: as well as targeting Iran, a country with which Beijing has a comprehensive strategic partnership, it has disrupted exports, rattled consume...
6 Mai 35min
China's International Ambitions — A Global Opposition Party?
The presidency of Donald Trump has given China fresh opportunities to increase its influence on the international stage. China has long been seeking to expand its role in global governance, proposing ...
1 Apr 44min
Slower Growth, Hi-tech Self-reliance, and 'Ethnic Unity' — China plans the future
China's legislature this month set the nation's GDP growth target at 4.5 – 5%, the lowest since 1991, and also approved the country's new five year plan, which calls for higher quality growth with an ...
18 Mar 40min
China's Economic Plans — and Consumer Challenges
China’s legislature is meeting in March to approve the nation’s new Five Year Plan, which aims to promote higher quality growth, and make China increasingly self-sufficient in new technology of all ki...
3 Mar 43min
Xi Jinping and his Father — Power, purges, parenting
The run-up to the lunar year has been a busy one for China’s President Xi Jinping, with world leaders beating a path to Beijing to meet him; he also found time to purge two of the Chinese military’s t...
17 Feb 45min
