Posted on September 8, 2019. Tags: China, Donald Trump, Far-right, identity, Nationalism, Politics, Populism, President Trump, United States, Xi Jinping
I moved to London when I was 16, having spent my entire childhood living in Beijing. My parents met there studying Chinese and my father later got a job with the Spanish embassy. When I arrived in the UK in 2014 British national culture seemed like a breath of fresh air compared to the parochial […]
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Posted in Asia, China, Europe, World
Posted on March 27, 2018. Tags: China, Economics, Globalization, Infrastructure, international trade, one belt one road, Politics, Security, Trade, World, Xi Jinping
In the autumn of 2013, China’s president, Xi Jinping, first introduced plans for what has become known as the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative, the largest integrated international infrastructure project the country has yet undertaken. The plan consists of a land-based economic belt and a string of ports constituting a ‘maritime silk road’, stretching from […]
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Posted in Asia, China, Economic Security, Economics, Global Economy, Political Security, Security Issues
Posted on September 30, 2015. Tags: Beijing, China, Culture, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, UN, Washington, Women's Rights, Xi Jinping
By Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of education and history at NYU Last Sunday, at the United Nations, world leaders marked the 20th anniversary of the landmark Beijing accord on women’s rights. They celebrated women’s progress—especially in education, health, and labor—and underscored ongoing gender inequalities. But they also condemned the jailing of female political dissidents in China, which […]
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Posted in China, Religion, UN, World