Experts acknowledge major errors in China’s Venezuela venture as opposition leader Guaidó claims power.

In their enthusiasm for a new cold war against China and Russia, the western establishments of today are making a mistake comparable to that of their forbears of 1914.

The industrialization of Internet control inevitably means that the budding expression of dissent in China is being prematurely transformed into controllable information flows.

As the world’s two largest economies began to impose tit-for-tat tariffs on a range of imports, China hit US soybeans. Since then, Chinese demand for Brazilian soy has spiked. Español

To meet China’s demand, Chile and Argentina are scaling up fish farming. This bodes ill for the Southern Cone's unique and sensitive biodiversity. Español

The WTO has to be reformed and updated, not discarded. And the EU should play its part, while at the same time promoting its own industrial growth.

There is a perceptible shift in public mood, and the search for a vaccine to the deception virus is in full swing. 

China is a repressive country. It’s also a laboratory for democracy in the digital age.

Worldwide, there is an administration-sanctioned attack on anonymity, online and off.

A moment of silence for Liu Xiaobo's death, and the cause of personal freedom in China.

Today’s autocrats are displaying a growing audacity in their willingness to pursuing dissenters everywhere, blatantly disregarding national boundaries in the process.

Education – combined with technologies  – seems to have triggered a sea-change in the contract between government and those who are governed.

So far, the nature of Christine Lagarde’s speeches and the discussions I had with Fund staff this week suggest that there is more work to be done.

The trouble for democracy does not come from Beijing, or from globalisation, or from abroad, or, in Britain, from immigration or from Europe. It resides at home.

After 20 years of campaigning by women’s rights activists, China now has its first domestic violence law. The challenge ahead is to make it work to guarantee the safety of women and children.

Mao once observed, “everything under heaven is in utter chaos. The situation is excellent!” Will China prosper in the era of president Trump?

One of the original founders of Hong Kong’s 2014 democracy protests thinks that increasing dis-identification with Chineseness, on both the level of culture and politics, is pushing the city-state towards uncharted territory.

Recent elections have injected new demands for self-determination and ideas of localism into the heart of Hong Kong’s law-making body.

“Perhaps his mistake was to say something sensible about Australia's relations with China, not something we normally expect from our politicians.”

In China too, people feel less uncomfortable when told that police on the streets are there to protect them from dangerous “others,” rather than to protect the state from them.