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Asia Posts

Taiwan flag ceremony

The struggle for Taiwan

Published 12 June 2023

The stand-off between China and the US is at serious risk of escalating

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Yoon Suk Yeol

Why the world cannot ignore South Korea

Published 25 April 2023

How Seoul navigates the tensions between China and the West will have major repercussions for us all

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Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin and the end of the era of openness

Published 20 December 2022

The late CCP bureaucrat’s liberalising reforms have made him an unlikely figure of nostalgia

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Xi Jinping in Bali, G20

The coming conflict with China

Published 19 November 2022

The smiles at the G20 cannot mask the deep tensions between East and West

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Pakistan Floods

Stop blaming climate change for Pakistan’s floods

Published 2 September 2022

Poverty and underdevelopment are the real causes of this devastation

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Shinzo Abe, Japan

Shinzo Abe’s troubling legacy

Published 12 July 2022

He was a giant of Japanese politics, but the hagiographies don’t tell the whole story

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Chinese soldiers

Is China about to invade Taiwan?

Published 14 September 2021

Xi Jinping is hesitant – and he has good reason to be

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Shinzo Abe

How Shinzo Abe failed

Published 2 September 2020

His reign as Japanese PM proved as ineffective as it was illiberal

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Britain China relations

Taking China to task

Published 20 July 2020

Andrew Marr was right to grill the CCP over its brutal treatment of Uighur Muslims. Brits must resist easy moral posturing, however.

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US China trade

Boycott China? Don’t be stupid

Published 8 June 2020

China is set to become even more central to the world economy after Covid than it was before

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Xi Jinping, 2019

There is no ‘appeasement’ of China

Published 27 May 2020

On the 80th anniversary of Dunkirk, we should remember not to dress up today’s conflicts in the politics of the past

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China and Covid

China since Wuhan

Published 15 May 2020

China expert Austin Williams and I introduce a debate on the internal and external dimensions of the Middle Kingdom’s economics and politics

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Tsai Ing Wen

Taiwan’s blow for democracy

Published 13 January 2020

Inspired by the Hong Kong protests, Taiwan has decisively rejected Beijing rule

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Sky News on ageing in China

Ageing in China

Published 30 December 2019

Sky News interview on ageing in China and government interest in shaping family sizes

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Dialectical progress in India

India’s dialectic of progress

Published 31 July 2017

Two new books show how far post-independence India has come, and how far it has still to go

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Chinese NextEV electric car

Electric car, Made in China

Published 12 July 2017

Few in the West have taken the full measure of China’s drive toward electric vehicles

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China's consumer spending

Chinese consumer markets cannot be turned back

Published 24 February 2016

Can China develop a coherent, vibrant internal market and break its dependency on large state-owned industries?

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China's productivity

China’s productivity

Published 7 December 2015

The use of labour has been China’s main economic strength. Can it move beyond that?

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China's patent assessed

China’s leap forward on patents

Published 30 March 2015

How groundbreaking are China’s patents? How innovative really is China?

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Innovation in Shanghai, China

Chinese innovation assessed

Published 18 December 2014

Can China innovate? How might its innovations change the rest of the world?

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Eagle

International Intrigue and a Slow Web in China’s Dalian

Published 4 August 2014

Not a lot of Westerners have heard of Dalian, a major port and a centre for financial services logistics and higher education in northeast China

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Computer games in China – some battles on screen, more in the market

Published 16 December 2013

The Chinese Communist Party won’t permit lurid content, but commercial competition in the games sector is pretty bloodthirsty

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Fracking in China

China: big shale reserves, but little fracking before 2020

Published 26 September 2013

When China finally gets fracking, there’ll be enough water to do the job. And fracking won’t kill  the number of people coal does

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China's robot revolution

China struggles to engineer robot revolution

Published 13 July 2013

Just as China’s strengths in cyberwar have stirred Western perceptions of a nation on the move, so its talents in robotics could be the stuff of nightmares.

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Anna Hazare: apostle of political hygiene

Published 30 August 2011

Why India’s middle-class warriors against corruption aren’t so heroic

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When a billion Chinese jump

‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned’

Published 27 August 2010

A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril.

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Letter from India

Published 11 March 2010

On a recent trip to India, James Woudhuysen collected a prize for Excellence in Innovation. As proof, he records the boom and dust of his travels.

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The green man’s burden

Published 7 July 2009

Why is Greenpeace calling on the UK to set an example to nations like China, when the Chinese are cleaning up faster than us?

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A Fu Manchu of the dot com age?

Published 9 April 2009

Claims that Chinese cyber-spies are plotting world domination through the World Wide Web are greatly exaggerated.

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Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth

Published 12 September 2007

Those calling on China and India to ‘kick the coal habit’, and opt for less sooty forms of energy, overlook the vast benefits of coal-use for those nations.

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Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’

Published 24 July 2007

Ignore the Yellow Peril view of Chinese economic growth as dirty and dangerous. There are good reasons to welcome China’s leaps forward.

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Is the Red Dragon a green threat?

Published 23 June 2007

Ignore the scaremongering of environmentalist writers and thinkers: China should be free to develop as it wishes.

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Waste Crisis in China

Will an e-waste crisis be made in China?

Published 8 June 2007

In the world of IT, both energy use and e-waste look set to gain an Eastern aspect.

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China Telecom gains global reach

Published 21 August 2006

China Telecom is one of the world’s most dynamic telcos and is touting for European business.

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Akio Morita

The man who built Sony

Published 11 May 1987

Akio Morita, co-founder and chief executive of Sony, is possibly Japan’s most important post-war industrialist. This is a review of his book, written with Edwin Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura, Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony (Collins)

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How the East was won: Japan in the 20th century

Published 1 February 1987

The West usually attributes Japanese industrial success to innate national characteristics such as feudal loyalty, hard work and passivity

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