China’s democracy: how the National People’s Congress works Western media dismisses the National People’s Congress while ignoring its extensive consultation processes, massive public participation mechanisms, and a tiered structure involving millions of deputies, explains JENNY CLEGG
Features | Sunday 17th Nov 2024 Beyond scepticism: understanding the role of Brics+ in global progress
Friday 03rd Mar 2023 From great power confrontation to major power co-operation: China’s peace plan for Ukraine We must disregard smears that it is siding with or even arming Russia, and genuinely engage with its role as a peacemaker — of all the great powers, a just and lasting political settlement is most in China's interests, writes JENNY CLEGG
Wednesday 15th Feb 2023 The trajectory of war: Iraq then, China now? JENNY CLEGG looks at how the US has learned from the resistance to the Iraq debacle in its preparations for a new and far more terrifying confrontation with its greatest modern rival
Tuesday 07th Feb 2023 To war with China? The UK-Japan axis for a global Nato As the first European country to forge military links with Japan, Britain provides an example for other Nato members to follow, argues JENNY CLEGG
Thursday 08th Dec 2022 How will China build a ‘modern socialist state by 2049?’ Since the 20th CPC Congress, 'socialist modernisation with Chinese characteristics' is the goal — meaning the West now has few lessons to teach. In the third and final part of the series, JENNY CLEGG looks at how China will increasingly carve its own path
Thursday 08th Dec 2022 China’s ‘common prosperity’ agenda China’s rich apparently don’t like it, Western commentators call it suicidal — so what exactly is this ‘common prosperity’ that Xi Jinping is promoting in his third term as leader? In part two of three-part series, JENNY CLEGG explains
Wednesday 07th Dec 2022 China under Xi Jinping: putting politics in command In the first of a three-part series, JENNY CLEGG looks at the origins of China’s current leader and the ‘left turn’ he has overseen by insisting that ideology once again take a leading role in the life of the Communist Party
Tuesday 25th Oct 2022 Xi Jinping’s ‘authoritarian turn’ — prioritising stability at a time of global turbulence Rather than condemning the CPC’s abandonment of two-term limits, we must understand why China’s rapid rise — and consequently the US’s renewed hostility — has meant the party has chosen to centralise power at this time, writes JENNY CLEGG
Monday 03rd Oct 2022 Truss and China: opening a new war front? Completely at odds with her free-market fundamentalism, our new PM is committed to classifying China as a military threat at the cost of economic ties — but will this ideologically driven stance be tolerated by businesses or indeed, British workers, asks JENNY CLEGG
Tuesday 19th Apr 2022 Opinion Imperialism, US hegemonism and multipolarity Not every international conflict is some form of inter-imperialist rivalry, argues JENNY CLEGG — we must recognise and support the rise of developing countries and the alliances they make that are slowly creating a more equal world
Monday 14th Feb 2022 Are the Uighurs ‘slave labourers’? A new report has cast doubt on the claims of the Nato-funded Australian Strategic Policy Institute that the Chinese government is orchestrating a forced Uighur labour programme, writes JENNY CLEGG
