Published by The i paper (7th June, 2021) President Xi Jinping has declared that he wants to rebrand China as a ‘credible, lovable and respectable’ country that is […]
China / Covid19 / World
Why China’s bid to woo the world with vaccines is backfiring
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd May, 2021) China’s Covid-19 vaccines were developed fast, rolled out rapidly around the world and proclaimed by President Xi Jinping as a […]
China / Covid19 / World
The Covid dissidents taking on China
Published by UnHerd (13th April, 2021) Feng Zijian played a central role in the World Health Organisation’s inquiry into the origins of Covid-19. The Chinese epidemiologist was one […]
China / World
Why President Xi will never accept defeat
Published by UnHerd (16th February, 2021) Six years ago, the Chinese president Xi Jinping made a state visit to Britain. It was an important moment for both nations […]
China / Defence / Education / Policy / World
MI6 fears over UK university links to Beijing as at least 12 of them are probed by spooks
Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th February, 2012) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) More than a dozen British universities are under investigation over commercial relationships with […]
Europe / Russia
The West can play a part defeating dictatorship
Published by The i paper (1st February, 2021) For the second weekend running, protests against the festering regime of Vladimir Putin flared up across Russia. His security forces […]
China / Covid19 / World
Will we ever learn the truth about China and the pandemic?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th December, 2020) Explosive emails from a group of top-level scientists and Government doctors in the United States reveal one suggested Covid-19 […]
Aid / China / World
Sickening aid bungs to China’s repellent dictators must end
Published by The Daily Mail (25th November, 2020) You have probably never heard of Zhou Qiang but he is one of the key Communist Party leaders in China […]
China / World
Genocide of the Uighurs
Published by The i paper (20th July 2020) The footage could scarcely be more disturbing. We see several hundred detainees sitting in rows on a station platform with […]
China / World
The hideous crushing of Hong Kong’s freedom is a victory for despots over democracy
Published by The Daily Mail (2nd July, 2020) The first arrest was a man clutching a black flag inscribed with the words ‘Hong Kong Independence’ in both English […]
China / Economics / Technology / World
China is winning the digital cold war
Published by The i paper (22nd June, 2020) The world is sliding into a new cold war. Once again, it pits a dictatorial political system against democracy, but […]