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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 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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| 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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| Monday 20 August 2007 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Hypocrisy of Olympian proportions
For years Western observers slammed China's 'red authoritarianism'. Yet today they positively cheer on its eco-authoritarianism.
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| Tuesday 24 July 2007 |
James Woudhuysen
Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’
Ignore the Yellow Peril view of Chinese economic growth as dirty and dangerous. There are good reasons to welcome China’s leaps forward.
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| Wednesday 11 April 2007 |
Bill Durodié
A cultural revolution at Tate Liverpool
Free of Western pessimism, the young Chinese artists on exhibition in Britain are witty and experimental.
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| Thursday 1 February 2007 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Davos 2007: ‘Waging’ war on China
Behind their feigned concern for falling Western wages, the elites at the World Economic Forum are really worried about the rise of Asian economies.
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| Tuesday 7 March 2006 |
Kirk Leech
Toxic China?
Western critics cite China's environmental record as an excuse for attacking economic growth.
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| Thursday 13 October 2005 |
Sheila Lewis
China: threat or opportunity?
The rise of China could be good for the West, if only it would rise to the challenge.
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