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china & the worldChina'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.
Much of China is run by local gangs pursuing their private interest. This is the party's key test
The violence in China’s far-west region has chilled the relationship between two rising world powers
The unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang exposes shared policy and attitudinal failures
The challenge of Xinjiang to Beijing's authority exceeds even that of Tibet
The Uyghurs of East Turkestan have become known to the world. But is it for the right reasons?
The crushing of revolt in Beijing on 4 June 1989 had deep roots and still casts a long shadow
China's memorial to its "liberation" of Lhasa in 1959 is founded on a colonial vision
After thirty years of economic reform in China the questions over the country's future are multiplying
China’s economic crisis presents its government with an impossible political choice Plus: Charter08, a brave appeal for human rights
The economy and popular discontent could provoke Beijing's elite to boldness
The test of economic reform's next round is already dampening post-Olympics euphoria
How Brasilia sees Beijing: through a triple lens of pragmatism, anti-Americanism and principle. Plus: a Kenyan eyes the east, by Peter Kimani
China embraces the world. But from Beijing to Nairobi there is turmoil beneath the harmony
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
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.
The rise of a great civilisation has complex echoes at the heart of the Arab world
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