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Published in: HomeThe uses of Chinese philosophyThe work of Confucius is a political tool for China's one-party state. But ancient Chinese thought can still jolt...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow to make America great again? Bully Mexico.As President Trump concludes his first week in the White House with extremely protectionist policies, there will be...
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Published in: HomeZhou Youguang, the real hero of modern ChinaThe architect of China's literacy revolution maintained an open-minded curiosity well into his second century.
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Published in: HomeLost in time: Hada, an Inner Mongolian dissidentTwenty years ago, a bookseller was turned into a living ghost. Amid the great changes shaking China, America,...
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Published in: HomeWhat will happen when China’s future is today?The bright national vision promoted by China's ruling party has a dramatic twist.
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Published in: HomeChina and Africa: handling 'otherness'An evolving, complex universalism makes western discourse obsolete but also creates new challenges. We are all 'other' now.
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Published in: HomeXi Jinping: the new Augustus?It will soon be clear whether China's paramount leader cares more for baubles or, like the great Roman emperor,...
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Published in: HomeChina, the Hayekian dialectic
Beijing leaders' attachment to central planning serves their underlying philosophy. But what happens if their core...
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Published in: HomeChina dialogue: perils of parallel
There is more talk than ever about China and the world - but also less listening. A serious upgrade of language and...
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Published in: HomeChina and the world: beyond exceptionalism
The work of an erudite Chinese writer of the 20th century, Qian Zhongshu, is an antidote to the idea of absolute...
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Published in: openSecurityWith Ghani in Kabul, will relations with Pakistan change?There are signs that the long-fraught relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan could improve, following the...
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Published in: openSecurityHong Kong: the stakes are highBeijing knows that the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong is not just about the future of the former British...
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Published in: HomeChina and Habermas's public sphere
There is a public realm, and it nurtures a society of free citizens. The painful, complex evolution of this idea in...
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Published in: openSecurityTiananmen Square: official silence, public restivenessIn the twenty-five years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s party-state appears to have stabilised its...
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Published in: HomeChina, between self and society
The need for an ethical vision to hold society together saw China's former premier Wen Jiabao look to Adam Smith....
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Published in: HomeChina vs Facebook: intimate rivals
The Chinese state and the United States company are engaged in an epic if undeclared contest over control and...
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Published in: openSecurityChina and the Great GameAlmost all discussion of Afghanistan after 2014 hinges on the withdrawal of western forces. Yet into that gap a...
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Published in: HomeChina: who is in charge?
China's policy incoherence has disturbing echoes of the prelude to Europe's great war in 1914, says Kerry Brown.
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Published in: HomeChina, the politics of corruption
China's new leader Xi Jinping has gathered more power more quickly than any of his predecessors. The big test now...
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Published in: oDRThe fable of the eagle, the dragon and the bearHow will Russia react to China’s rapid ascent as a global power? Will it develop its eastern links to spite the...
