Published by The i paper (6th January, 2025) A few days before Christmas, a Chinese ship started its engines in the freezing waters between Denmark and Sweden and […]
China / Taiwan / World
A victory for democracy in Taiwan
Published by The i paper (15th January, 2024) Amid so much grim global news, something to celebrate. For the biggest election year in human history, which will see […]
China / World
A lesson in life’s fragility
Published by The i paper (26th December, 2023) The artists, booksellers, musicians and writers all knew each other well, so greeted each other warmly in the restaurant, cracking […]
China / World
In sucking up to China, Sunak and Cleverly risk looking as obsequious and naive as Cameron and Osborne
Published by The Daily Mail (31st August, 2023) Eight years ago George Osborne, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, took a large delegation of business and cultural leaders to […]
China / Taiwan / World
Tanks stand ready on beaches where barricades jut from the sands – a dispatch from Taiwan front line so close you can see China across the bay
Published by The Daily Mail (11th April, 2023) Kinmen is a holiday destination with a difference: tanks are parked by some beaches, spiked barricades poke from the sand […]
China / Covid19 / World
Devastated mourners forced to burn their own dead loved ones as China’s ‘zero Covid’ approach backfires
Published by The Sun (3rd January, 2023) After the man’s grandmother died from Covid, he went to a major crematorium in the Chinese city of Chengdu to sort […]
China / Covid19 / World
How the sudden lifting of China’s Zero Covid plunged the country into turmoil
Published by The Daily Mail (January 2nd, 2023) The man’s note to his neighbours was polite. He stated that his father had died in their Shanghai flat from […]
China / Covid19 / World
How Covid revolt swept across China
Published by The Daily Mail (November 28th, 2022) The blaze broke out in a residential high-rise building in Urumqi, a city in western China infamous for the repression […]
China / World
Hit China’s rich and powerful with sanctions – just like the Putin oligarchs
Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th September, 2022) According to the Chinese government, the primary human right is to have an enjoyable life – and nowhere demonstrates […]
China / Covid19 / World
Will China’s ‘Zero Covid’ crackdown ruin the Olympics?
Published by The Daily Mail (17th January, 2022) The timing could not be worse. Omicron has seeped into China on the eve of the Winter Olympics, forcing the government […]
China / World
Orwellian repression is stamping out the last flickers of freedom in Hong Kong
Published by The Daily Mail (24th June, 2021) When Jimmy Lai was a child, he worked as a porter carrying bags for passengers at the railway station in […]