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Patrick Hayes
Liberated from the ‘idiocy of rural life’
Over half of China’s population – 691million people – now live in cities. It’s a mind-boggling achievement for mankind.
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| Monday 13 December 2010 |
Tim Black
There is little noble about this Nobel award
What a fate Liu Xiaobo has suffered: outrageously imprisoned by the Chinese and cynically exploited by Westerners keen to bash Beijing.
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| Wednesday 11 August 2010 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Why is the bible of capitalism cheering on Chinese workers?
Daniel Ben-Ami is not convinced by the outbreak of workers’ solidarity in The Economist, the FT and amongst writers normally so fond of austerity.
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| Thursday 15 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Investing the Dalai Lama with unearthly powers
In one of their first interviews with a Westerner since the 2008 unrest, Tibetan officials wildly claim that the ‘Dalai clique’ is behind everything.
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| Tuesday 13 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Chinese officialdom embraces ‘Shangri-La’
The Chinese authorities use the idea that Tibet is somehow ‘different’ to justify the lack of democracy and development.
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| Monday 12 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Tibet: still a ‘buffer state’ for posh Westerners?
Kicking off a week of reports from Tibet, spiked’s editor finds that Lhasa is nothing like the mystical kingdom of British imperial fantasies.
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| Thursday 3 June 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Buy an iPad, kill a Chinaman
The idea that our lust for Apple products is causing suicides is anti-capitalism of the lowest (and dumbest) variety.
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| Thursday 1 October 2009 |
Tara McCormack
Are we witnessing ‘the rise of the rest’?
The elevation of the G20 over the G8 has prompted talk of an international power shift. The reality is more complicated.
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| Wednesday 23 September 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Has China had a green ‘Damascene conversion’?
The sight of President Hu almost apologising to the West for his country’s vast economic growth was a revealing snapshot of our times.
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| Tuesday 1 September 2009 |
Austin Williams
Dongtan: the eco-city that never was
China’s first big eco-city has been put on hold, not because it was too ambitious, but because it wasn’t ambitious enough.
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| Tuesday 7 July 2009 |
Ethan Epstein
The sustainability con
Multinationals in China flag up their green credentials in order to dodge a far more serious matter: labour rights.
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| Wednesday 20 August 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Seeing through this
slitty-eyed hypocrisy
Spanish athletes have been slated for mocking the Chinese. So why is it okay for Free Tibet activists to peddle slitty-eyed prejudices?
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| Tuesday 19 August 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
The ping pong and the passion
Ignore the ignoramuses who say table tennis isn’t a real Olympic sport and behold Wang Hao: the greatest Olympian of 2008.
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| Thursday 14 August 2008 |
Mick Hume
The Olympics: playing political games
The sporting festival has long been viewed through the political mood of the moment, from the age of empire to the politics of fear today.
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| Tuesday 5 August 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
A green light to attack the Red Dragon
Yesterday’s massacre of Chinese police officers highlights the dangers behind the international politicisation of the Olympics.
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| Thursday 31 July 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Double standards are no friend of freedom
Is the concern over Chinese censorship driven by a real desire for liberty, or fury that the Chinese have blocked the words of Western experts?
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| Tuesday 15 July 2008 |
Frank Furedi
The rise of China — threat or opportunity?
From Green fears to Cold War fantasies, the West’s own cultural confusion explains why it cannot make its mind up about China.
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| Thursday 10 July 2008 |
Shirley Dent
Battle for China: the ballad of Qu Yuan
The clash between Chinese officials and radicals over whether an ancient poet was a patriot or dissenter is about more than literary heritage.
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| Wednesday 28 May 2008 |
Tim Black
China: ‘so pernicious, so malign, so vile’
Tim Black reports on the outbursts of borderline Sinophobic sentiment at last night’s London debate on boycotting Beijing.
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| Tuesday 20 May 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Is the Dalai Lama a ‘religious dictator’?
As the world’s favourite giggling Buddhist arrives in Britain, a Buddhist nun tells spiked that he is denying people their religious freedom.
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