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What's at stake in the Huawei affair?
SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the the crisis inside the Tory Party over the controversial deal with China's - supposedly bugged - telecoms giant
Huawei's British headquarters in Reading
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
THE HUAWEI row is clearly very fierce inside the Conservative Party, with leaks and sackings at the highest levels. But if you aren’t a Tory, it’s a bit harder to grasp who is doing what to whom and why.
Is Theresa May willing to let the Chinese Communist Party spy on all our mobile phones in exchange for a bit of investment?
Or does spider-wrangling fantasist Gavin Williamson want to start a war with China to show he is big, and suck up to President Trump to feel even bigger?
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