What are the economic risks of conflict between China and Taiwan?
Taiwan’s status as a self-governing island, with its own government and diplomacy, is facing unprecedented challenges. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China often presents Taiwan as a secessionist...
20 Apr 202116min
Going it alone - the lives of China’s single people
China has a growing number of people who live alone. As a result, many people’s way of life has become more personalized, geared towards their own careers and individual interests. There’s also a boom...
13 Apr 202112min
What is life like for people who come from one child families?
Because of the one child policy which ran from 1979 to 2016, millions of people in China have grown up without brothers or sisters, especially in urban settings. The media sometimes describes them as ...
6 Apr 202114min
Do China’s leaders really believe their country is superior to all other nations on earth?
China’s global influence has increased enormously since it started opening up to the world in the early 1980s. On occasions, General Secretary Xi Jinping has suggested that his country’s system is “su...
30 Mar 202115min
What do China’s leaders mean by national security and should the world be worried?
The Chinese state places great importance on national security. It believes its duty is to protect the people from foreign attack and invasion and as China’s economy has grown, so has spending on the ...
23 Mar 202116min
Will China’s ageing population cause its economic growth to slow dramatically?
China often boasts that it is on target to become the world’s biggest economy and that in the process it’s lifting millions of people permanently out of poverty. Yet the government also acknowledges t...
16 Mar 202121min
Has China’s obsession with feminine beauty liberated women?
Should Communists care about being beautiful? In Maoist China, western ideas of beauty were derided as bourgeois. It was said to be far better to judge a woman’s worth by her intelligence, patriotism,...
9 Mar 202112min
How do women in China feel about the state deciding how many children they should have?
It is an expensive choice to have children in China, especially in big cities. Most parents struggle to afford child care and only a few employers do much to support the careers of working mothers. A ...
2 Mar 202114min
