China

The coronavirus cure for global populism?

How the pandemic exposed some leaders’ bluster and might yet undermine authoritarian regimes

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China travels and travails

Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain

Books
We have been here before

A 1970s drama played on a nagging sense that modern life was fragile

On Television
Covid-19’s willing accomplice

How Tedros Ghebreyesus and the WHO devastated the world to flatter China

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Does peak infection sync with lockdown enforcement?

The lockdown logic’s basic arithmetic doesn’t add up

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The Italian model

Did Chinese migrant labour in the fashion industry bring Covid-19 to Europe?

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Controlling crises

How do governments of past, present, national and international deal with crises?

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Covid is a symptom of the Age of China

British statecraft is not protecting us from an emerging autocratic superpower

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The Coronavirus Cover-Up

How the West’s fear of appearing racist obscures the blunders at the beginning of this outbreak

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Looking back: WWIII remembered

This was not supposed to happen. Not in the year 2029. A nuclear war, millions dead, firestorms, irradiated cities. How did we get here?

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