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

Kerry Brown, 17 September 2009

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

Matti Nojonen and Igor Torbakov, 5 August 2009

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

Dibyesh Anand, 14 July 2009

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

Xinjiang: China’s security high-alert

Kerry Brown, 14 July 2009

The challenge of Xinjiang to Beijing's authority exceeds even that of Tibet

Friday 10th July

The discovery of the Uyghurs

Henryk Szadziewski, 10 July 2009

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

Li Datong, 4 June 2009

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

Tiananmen, 1989-2009

Emily Lau, 4 June 2009

The message of Hong Kong to Beijing is consistent and enduring

Saturday 28th March

Tibet and China: the past in the present

Tsering Shakya, 28 March 2009

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

Thursday 19th February

China's stalled transition

Li Datong, 19 February 2009

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

Thursday 5th February

China’s giant struggle

Kerry Brown, 5 February 2009

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

Thursday 22nd January

China’s political tunnel

Wei Jingsheng, 22 January 2009

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

Kerry Brown, 14 January 2009

The economy and popular discontent could provoke Beijing's elite to boldness

Monday 22nd September

China’s nervous transition

Kerry Brown, 22 September 2008

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

Monday 11th August

China's Olympics: a view from Brazil

Arthur Ituassu, 11 August 2008

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

Peter Kimani, 9 August 2008

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

Irfan Husain, 8 August 2008

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

Patrice de Beer, 7 August 2008

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.