Why do people join the CCP?
At last count, the Chinese Communist Party has 98 million members, more people than the population of Germany. Its membership also continues to grow, ...
Chinese Whispers
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A fortnightly podcast from the Spectator on the latest in Chinese politics, society, and more. From Huawei to Hong Kong, Cindy Yu talks to experts, journalists, and long time China-watchers on what you need to know about China.
Was China's economic boom 'made in America'?
Today, the US and China are at loggerheads. There’s renewed talk of a Cold War as Washington finds various ways to cut China out of key supply chains ...
What lies at the root of the India-China rivalry?
India is the fifth largest economy in the world, and now has a population larger than China’s. It’s no surprise, then, that officials in Washington of...
Who will be Taiwan's next President?
Taiwan goes to the polls in just over a month. This is an election that could have wide repercussions, given the island’s status as a potential flashp...
Dialect and identity: is Mandarin bad for China?
Across the span of China, a country as big as Europe, there are countless regional dialects and accents – perhaps even languages. Often, they're mutua...
Battling the official narrative – China's 'underground historians'
Controlling history is key to the Chinese Communist Party’s control of the country. Whether it’s playing up the ‘century of humiliation’, or whitewash...
Rethinking Chinese food with Fuchsia Dunlop
All cultures care about their cuisine, but the Chinese must have one of the most food-obsessed cultures in the world. It may be because we have the be...
'The mask has slipped' – Tuvia Gering on China, Israel and Hamas
When China brokered a historic detente between Saudi Arabia and Iran earlier this year, it seemed that a new phase in world history – and certainly in...
Does China care what Britain thinks?
In 2010, David Cameron and George Osborne ushered in what they called ‘a golden era’ with China, the world’s rising superpower. They argued that Brita...
What we know about Beijing's spies
Two years ago, Richard Moore, head of MI6, said that China was now the organisation’s ‘single greatest priority’. Parliamentarians and the British pub...