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Published in: HomeTime for the west to fight for the exiledToday’s autocrats are displaying a growing audacity in their willingness to pursuing dissenters everywhere,...
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Published in: HomeBack to the future: the rebirth of a classical approach to democracy and education in a post-modern societyEducation – combined with technologies – seems to have triggered a sea-change in the contract between government and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The IMF on inequality: beyond organised hypocrisy?So far, the nature of Christine Lagarde’s speeches and the discussions I had with Fund staff this week suggest that...
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Published in: HomeChina and the embarrassment of western democracyThe trouble for democracy does not come from Beijing, or from globalisation, or from abroad, or, in Britain, from...
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Published in: 50.50A long road: domestic violence law in ChinaAfter 20 years of campaigning by women’s rights activists, China now has its first domestic violence law. The...
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Published in: HomeAmidst Trumpian disorder, China eyes up its opportunityMao once observed, “everything under heaven is in utter chaos. The situation is excellent!” Will China prosper in...
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Published in: HomeAfter the Umbrella movement, Hong Kong now faces an identity crisisOne of the original founders of Hong Kong’s 2014 democracy protests thinks that increasing dis-identification with...
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Published in: HomeTwo years after the Occupy protests, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council sees a generational shift in politicsRecent elections have injected new demands for self-determination and ideas of localism into the heart of Hong...
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Published in: HomeThe Australian Senator for Beijing?“Perhaps his mistake was to say something sensible about Australia's relations with China, not something we normally...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesChina’s instrumentalization of terrorismIn China too, people feel less uncomfortable when told that police on the streets are there to protect them from...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaArgentina: the Chinese aqueducts affairLack of transparency has become the norm in contracts between China and Latin America. The Entre Ríos aqueducts,...
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Published in: 50.50China's "leftover women" and the left-out systemCan a skin brand “change your destiny” in a socially empowering way? A video titled ‘Marriage Market Takeover’ seems...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaRedefining relations between Latin America and ChinaAccording to a new report by the OECD, Latin America will have to redefine its relations with China if it is to...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWill booming India topple China in Latin America?Much like China since the turn of the century, India is increasingly looking overseas for raw materials to fuel its...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta“We will not treat you like Africa”Four specialists discuss the social and environmental impact and the perspectives of the partnership between China...
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Published in: 50.50Life with a dissident in China: searching for ‘horizontal freedom’The role of women in house churches in China reminds us of both the social malleability of religion and the...
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Published in: HomeHong Kong’s angry young millennials: an interview with Joshua WongThe student protest leader has been the centre of western media attention, but he’s not without his critics within...
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Published in: HomeChina and the coming crisisLook to China, if you want to locate the downfall of capitalism. It could happen a lot sooner than we think.
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Published in: HomeDigital capitalism: stagnation and contention?Capitalist development has undergone – and inflicted – violent historical dislocations in the past. So it is with...
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Published in: HomeBeijing tightens the screwsThe Chinese state is now more ideological and more repressive than ever since the days of Mao.
