Nixon in China: the complicated legacy of a week that changed the world
Fifty years after the US president’s visit to Beijing heralded a new era of diplomacy, are divisions deepening again?
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Will China retaliate against US tech sanctions?
Though Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s G20 meeting was diplomatically reassuring, they remain engaged in a high-stakes battle.
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What Xi Jinping’s rhetoric reveals about China’s global aims
Beijing’s call for “fighters” in leadership roles signals a battle with the West for dominance in tech.
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Xi Jinping’s party of one
China’s new leadership line-up shows how the country’s leader has consolidated control to an extraordinary degree.
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Joe Biden crushes Xi Jinping’s precious semiconductor ambitions
The US has imposed sweeping sanctions on a sector key to China’s goal of global technological dominance.
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China’s solar and wind capacity to exceed entire EU power grid by 2025
The superpower’s huge renewable energy programme is surging.
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The Foreign Office has taught fewer than five civil servants to speak Cantonese
The department has been accused of undermining its ability to challenge China by training so few to speak its primary…
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Why China won’t ditch Vladimir Putin
The first meeting between the Russian and Chinese leaders since the start of the war in Ukraine will be closely…
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