china & the world: all articles

China's hosting of the Olympic games in 2008 symbolises its global rise. openDemocracy writers around the world reflect on their own country's relationship with the new superpower.
Thursday 17th September

China’s shadow sector: power in pieces

Much of China is run by local gangs pursuing their private interest. This is the party's key test
Wednesday 5th August

China-Turkey and Xinjiang: a frayed relationship

The violence in China’s far-west region has chilled the relationship between two rising world powers
Tuesday 14th July

China’s borderlands: the need to rethink

The unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang exposes shared policy and attitudinal failures

Xinjiang: China’s security high-alert

The challenge of Xinjiang to Beijing's authority exceeds even that of Tibet
Friday 10th July

The discovery of the Uyghurs

The Uyghurs of East Turkestan have become known to the world. But is it for the right reasons? 
Thursday 4th June

Tiananmen: the legacy of 1989

The crushing of revolt in Beijing on 4 June 1989 had deep roots and still casts a long shadow

Tiananmen, 1989-2009

The message of Hong Kong to Beijing is consistent and enduring
Saturday 28th March

Tibet and China: the past in the present

China's memorial to its "liberation" of Lhasa in 1959 is founded on a colonial vision
Thursday 19th February

China's stalled transition

After thirty years of economic reform in China the questions over the country's future are multiplying
Thursday 5th February

China’s giant struggle

Beijing's leadership projects confidence on the world stage but faces a year of domestic turmoil
Thursday 22nd January

China’s political tunnel

China’s economic crisis presents its government with an impossible political choice   Plus: Charter08, a brave appeal for human rights 
Wednesday 14th January

China in 2009: a year for surprise

The economy and popular discontent could provoke Beijing's elite to boldness
Monday 22nd September

China’s nervous transition

The test of economic reform's next round is already dampening post-Olympics euphoria

Monday 11th August

China's Olympics: a view from Brazil

How Brasilia sees Beijing: through a triple lens of pragmatism, anti-Americanism and principle. Plus: a Kenyan eyes the east, by Peter Kimani
Saturday 9th August

China and the Olympics: a view from Kenya

China embraces the world. But from Beijing to Nairobi there is turmoil beneath the harmony
Friday 8th August

China and the Olympics: a view from Pakistan

A firm Beijing-Islamabad alliance extends from politics to the track. 

Plus: Tarek Osman on Egypt's longing, Patrice de Beer on France's two minds; and Kerry Brown on Olympic realism

Thursday 7th August

China and the Olympics: a view from France

The failure of judgment towards China among the French political class is all the more reason to reaffirm universal standards of human rights, says Patrice de Beer.

China and the Olympics: a view from Egypt

The rise of a great civilisation has complex echoes at the heart of the Arab world

 

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