The West isn’t dying – its ideas live on in China
What the Western world confronts is not the threatening advance of alien civilisations, but its own dark shadows moving through…
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Tokyo 2020: The Covid Olympics
The New Statesman's coverage of the world's first pandemic Games since 1920.
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Why there is no solution to our age of crisis without China
For decades, the West has ignored the significance of China's rise – but we must recognise that it will be instrumental…
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How the Chinese government is buying its way into UK universities
From funding professorships to censoring students, the Chinese state has more influence on British educational establishments than we realise.
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Hong Kong democracy after one year of the National Security Law
Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC host the New Statesman's weekly global affairs podcast, World Review.
How the Chinese Communist Party’s foundation determines Xi Jinping’s leadership today
Beyond the skyscrapers and fashion boutiques of Shanghai, the fundamental structures of the party state are still rooted in Leninist…
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The sunshine and smiles of the G7 summit masked deep divisions – and disappointments too
What came out of the talks was a cluster of middling commitments, rehashed versions of older ideas, unfunded aspirations and…
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China’s Covid cover-up?
The theory that coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan lab is now considered credible. If true, it has grave implications for the…
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