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Chinese students in the West are either seen as temporary customers or potential spies. I argue here that there's a third way – they're assets that can be used in the competition with China thetimes.com/comment/column…

The Times writer came to Britain from China when she was nine. She’s long put up with jibes that she’s really working for Beijing — but with fears of the country’s influence being so intense, the joke is wearing thin 🔗 Read the full story here: thetimes.com/comment/column…

US tariffs have left many countries wondering what President Trump will do next. But should the UK align more closely with China? Rethink on BBC Radio 4 with Ben Ansell, Prof. Todd Hall, Yeling Tan, Cindy Yu and Wang Guan of CGTN bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Chinese boomers are worried about the frivolity of the younger generation, the Labubu craze being the latest example. But I argue in new column that there are good reasons for millennial and Gen Z escapism 👇 thetimes.com/comment/column…

The fluffy monster Labubu is China's hottest new cultural export, adorning the bags of A-listers like Rihanna But it's the source of a moral panic inside China: the boomers fear that it's just another sign that the kids are not okay My latest column 👇 thetimes.com/comment/column…

An honour to have been a part of the judging panel for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing We read so many incredible books but Amelina’s stood out from the very first pages. It’s raw, powerful and original She was a true heir to Orwell the novelist and Orwell the journalist

“Flip-flopping between tough talk and muddled actions”, David Lammy had said of the Tory approach to China Now, with the bottling of the China audit, Labour has ditched the tough talk and is muddling down the same path My new column for The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.com/comment/column…

Heavily tattooed, uber-muscly and foul-mouthed, the Taiwanese gym manager and livestreamer Chen Chih-han, a.k.a. 館長, is an unlikely ambassador for China-Taiwan friendship My latest column is on Chen's six-day livestream from Shanghai and what this tells us about Taiwan's

Incredible - billionaire Jack Ma spotted cycling along Hangzhou’s West Lake last night

This is a deeply disappointing red flag for those traveling to China. It chills vitally important people to-people ties. But the reality is that you too could be trapped — possibly for years — if Beijing decides it needs leverage in talks with the US.

A 21 year old Chinese student has been at the centre of a social media storm of nationalism and misogyny. My latest column looks at this particular strand of Chinese public opinion – how it was seeded by the century of humiliation, and what it reveals about China's culture wars

Trump's isolationism has given China space to make friends and influence world leaders The latest polling shows that there has been a collapse in American popularity worldwide, while in many countries, China's reputation is improving (and for the first time since the pandemic)

Great to see BFPG's 2025 Annual Survey polling data highlighted in The Times and The Sunday Times. The piece references the sharp decline in Britons' trust in the US over the past year, as Britons increasingly turn towards Europe. Read the full article: thetimes.com/comment/column…