Constant surveillance, cultural suppression and ‘re-education’ are the day-to-day reality for China’s Muslim minorities. And the technology giants that enable it are closer than we might think

“Wandel durch Handel” must make way for a new strategy. But what kind?

Flare ups at the border need to be handled with caution

The anxiety of worrying about the safety of my family was replaced with anger at the lack of preparedness in the UK

The Chinese state has an impressive story to tell but Covid-19 and Hong Kong show the west shouldn't concede just yet

Sars vials misplaced, dengue fever samples lost in the post—the chilling lack of bio-security at research labs

Coronavirus has upended the world order and called basic liberal values into question. With authoritarianism on the rise, can democracy as we know it survive?

The disturbing story of how the web is weaving weird connections between hippies, Nazis, Russian agents and the rest of us to spread lies about Covid-19

And how to manage the risk

Swap lines pulled us back from the brink in 2008. But as this pandemic spreads, a great power rivalry threatens to bring the global financial system tumbling down

An epidemiological calamity could bring about an economic one

The row over Huawei is just the beginning. And neither Britain nor Europe has a strategy yet