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| Tuesday 7 April 2009 |
James Woudhuysen
A Fu Manchu of the dot com age?
Claims that Chinese cyber-spies are plotting world domination through the World Wide Web are greatly exaggerated.
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| Wednesday 27 August 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
After Beijing: can only dictatorships dazzle?
What Beijing’s opening ceremony and London’s handover ceremony reveal about China and Britain. PLUS: Londoners gear up for 2012.
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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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| 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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| Friday 8 August 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
There is only one ‘Olympic value’: win, win, win
The assault on China even for its ‘gold medal culture’ exposes the mad mix of moral disdain and moral relativism behind China-bashing.
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| Friday 8 August 2008 |
Tim Black
Putting the ‘I’ into
internationalism
The arrest of four Free Tibet protesters in Beijing shows that Tibet still fulfills the fantasies of posh, disillusioned Westerners.
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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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| Wednesday 23 July 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
The camera never lies – but it exaggerates
A recently published series of ‘haunting pictures’ showing Beijing as a polluted, Mad Max-style dystopia were not all that they seemed.
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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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| 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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| 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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