A fortnightly podcast from the Spectator on the latest in Chinese politics, society, and more. From
Comparisons with 1989’s Tiananmen Square protests are too often evoked when it comes to talking abou
When the city of Zhengzhou, home to the world’s largest iPhone factory, locked down recently, some o
This week Xi Jinping has taken his new Politburo Standing Committee on a group trip – to Yan’An, the
I recently caught a rare viewing of a 2001 Chinese film, Lan Yu. It tells the story of two gay men f
Every five years, Beijing goes into heightened security as senior members of the Chinese Communist P
In the last four decades, hundreds of millions of Chinese have moved into cities. Today, two thirds
After a long summer of hustings, Liz Truss has finally been confirmed today as the next leader of th
What does China want with Xinjiang? Its systematic repression of the Uyghur people and other regiona
Nancy Pelosi’s controversial trip to Taiwan made headlines across the world this week, after Preside
China’s property market accounts for something between 20 and 29 per cent of the country’s total GDP
Semiconductors are the most important thing that you've never heard of. These little computer chips
You probably wouldn’t expect to see the Cultural Revolution in Chinese films, or the Great Leap Forw
China's social credit system is notorious. This Black Mirror-esque network supposedly gives citizens
All eyes are on the Communist leadership this year, as the months count down to autumn’s National Pa
It’s clear now that Vladimir Putin didn’t expect his army to perform quite so badly when invading Uk
China is often accused of breaking international rules and norms. Just last week at Mansion House, F
‘One Shanghai courier uses own 70,000 yuan to buy necessities for people’, one Weibo hashtag trended
After defeat in the Second Opium War, Chinese intellectuals wracked their minds for how the Chinese
Taiwan is not Ukraine. But despite the very important differences in their situations, the Russian i
This episode of Chinese Whispers is slightly different – instead of taking a look at a theme within
