Inside China
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- Xi Jinping
‘China Shock 2.0’ could destroy Europe as we know it
Europe’s leaders are waking up to a terrifying danger.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Working from sun up to sun down, China’s delivery drivers caught in a price war
China’s army of food delivery drivers are paying the price as tech giants wage war for control over the lucrative market.
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Opinion
Xi says he has a ‘similar personality’ to a powerful world leader. It isn’t Trump
The West has imposed widespread sanctions against Russia in an attempt to isolate Putin over his illegal invasion of Ukraine. They have been unsuccessful.
- Clinton Fernandes
The Chinese electric vehicle giant that just toppled BYD
Electric car powerhouse BYD passed Tesla in global sales last year. But it is a different story at home.
- Keith Bradsher
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
‘Eating bitterness’: China is set up to outlast Trump’s America
Donald Trump goes to Beijing badly needing Chinese help to extricate himself from a quagmire that threatens to destroy his presidency and is entirely of his own making.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
- Opinion
- China relations
The empire of pain and paranoia that awaits Trump inside Xi’s China
The US leader and Chinese leaders will meet this week – the first humiliated by Iran, the second suppressing any sign of despair among his people.
- Peter Hartcher
- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
Trump heads to China weak and embarrassed
Donald Trump isn’t holding a winning hand as he gets ready for his summit with Xi Jinping.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Putin’s pain: The walls are closing in on Russia
The US may have gone soft on Russia, but the Europeans are getting more assertive, and they have also upset China in the process.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
The hidden life in Beijing’s hutongs
In Beijing’s old hutong districts, residents such as Ma Peizeng and his wife have built modest lives in tiny spaces, sharing communal courtyards and public bathrooms with their neighbours, as the city has gentrified around them.
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
China has already won Trump’s impulsive war
As Trump blusters and bullies his way through another week, China’s Xi Jinping is watching and smiling.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard