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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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| Monday 19 May 2008 |
Norman Lewis
To see the future of the internet, look East
If Westerners could shake off their prejudices about ‘copycat’ Asians with ‘small hands’, they might just see the wonders of Asian web innovation.
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| Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
Frank Furedi
Crusaders in search of a crusade
From Burma to China to Austria, why do Western observers always seek signs of human depravity? PLUS: Brendan O’Neill on ‘news as porn’.
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| Monday 21 April 2008 |
Tim Black
Turning China into a whipping boy
A debate about the Olympics sent out a clear message: Britain may no longer be Great, but at least we aren’t China.
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| Friday 18 April 2008 |
Mick Hume
Let’s blame it
all on China
We are suffering a mad fit of Olympian proportions when Peter Mandelson sounds like the voice of reason: read Mick Hume’s column in The Times.
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| Monday 14 April 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Slitty eyes and buck teeth? It must be China
In its rush to denounce Chinese militarism and pollution, is the British Free Tibet Campaign disseminating dubious stereotypes of Chinese people?
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| Wednesday 9 April 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
The invasion of the robotic thugs
The attacks on the ‘horrible, ominous, retarded’ Chinese men guarding the Olympic flame are historical prejudice repeated as farce.
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| Monday 7 April 2008 |
Black and O’Neill
Grown-up politics goes up in flames
Yesterday’s public grappling with the Olympic torch shone a light on the self-satisfied, cartoonish nature of contemporary China-bashing.
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| Wednesday 19 March 2008 |
Tim Black
Beijing 2008: choking on China-bashing
Claims that the great Beijing smog will possibly kill Western athletes are based more on hot air than hard facts.
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| Monday 17 March 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Using Tibet to settle scores with China
Tibetans want to be free. But they’ve been given a green light to riot by Western elements driven more by spite and envy than a love for liberty.
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| Monday 10 March 2008 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
The Chinese: from Yellow Peril to Green Peril?
The slandering of China as a sooty, smoggy ‘destroyer of the planet’ overlooks the sweeping historic benefits of Chinese growth.
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| Monday 10 March 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Why Tibetophilia won’t set Tibet free
Western pro-Tibet campaigning is driven less by a passion for freedom, than by disgust with modernity - and a view of the Chinese as ‘subhuman’.
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| Monday 10 March 2008 |
Angus Kennedy
Chinese workers? Let them pick up litter
The hysterical campaign against plastic bags in the West is causing massive job losses in the East, and leaving people on the scrap heap.
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| Thursday 14 February 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
And the gold medal for China-bashing goes to…
The Beijing Olympics have been turned into an all-purpose platform for panicmongering about the Yellow Peril. We name the culprits.
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| Tuesday 4 December 2007 |
Stuart Simpson
There's no new 'scramble for Africa'
China’s relationship with Africa is no threat to the West - all the major economies are gaining from a continent that is no longer a ‘basket case’.
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| Thursday 15 November 2007 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Workers of the world, disunited?
Globalisation has not set Asian workers inexorably against Western workers. In fact, we have a truly global working class for the first time ever.
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| Tuesday 9 October 2007 |
Nathalie Rothschild
China doesn't need the West in loco parentis
The C4 documentary, China's Stolen Children, showed that there's a patronising streak in some of today's handwringing concern for Chinese kids.
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| Wednesday 12 September 2007 |
James Woudhuysen
Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth
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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| Friday 7 September 2007 |
Mick Hume
What's that terracotta army really up to?
'Yellow peril' fever and politics goes back-to-school - read Mick Hume's columns in The Times (London).
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| Thursday 30 August 2007 |
Brendan O’Neill
Toxic toys: is China poisoning YOUR child?
The overblown scare about China’s lead-painted Big Birds and vinyl bibs has become a metaphor for Western fears about the ‘yellow peril’.
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