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Gary Gibbon
China has been staring at David Cameron’s request to come on a visit to Beijing for a long time now. It ruled out a trip last autumn. It dumped on the idea of last spring.
Gary Gibbon
As Cameron announces China trip, Beijing announces its next leap forward.
Much has changed since Boris last visited Beijing following the 2008 Olympics. He is one of the few British politicians taking advantage of Chinese social media and his popularity is increasing.
Gary Gibbon
George Osborne was meant to be in Beijing on his own, not sharing the stage with Boris Johnson. Why the double act? Gary Gibbon investigates.
The chancellor is hoping to “change British attitudes” to China and is calling for more respect to be shown to the way the country is developing.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who has been critically ill in hospital for five weeks, turns 95 on Thursday.
On Tuesday Archbishop Desmond Tutu receives the Templeton prize for his work in “affirming life’s spiritual dimension”. But the civil rights activist has not said what he will do with the £1.1m award.
As a human rights group accuses the Burmese authorities of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, the EU lifts its sanctions against Burma.
With Catholics worldwide celebrating the election of Pope Francis, political and relegious leaders welcome the new leader of the world’s largest Christian church.
The daughter of Burmese democracy is being feted like a rock star and treated like a president as she tours Europe. Today, on her 67th birthday, Aung San Suu Kyi is going “home” to Oxford for what will be a deeply poignant and bittersweet visit.
Growing numbers of Tibetans are resorting to setting themselves alight to protest against the Chinese government’s repression of their homeland. Channel 4 News examines why.
The words were simply stunning. Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s tirade against the ANC government rocks so much that we have assumed about post-apartheid South Africa. Comparing the ANC to Libya’s Gaddafi and Egypt’s Mubarak he slammed the party that delivered freedom to South Africa as worse than the old regime. At least you expected them to behave badly, he raged, adding “You, President Zuma and your government, do not represent me. I am warning you, as I warned the nationalists, one day we will pray for the defeat of the ANC government.” It is a sense of anger and betrayal that chimes with much of what I found while filming for the new series of Unreported World (Friday, Channel 4 at 1930 and on 4OD).
Human rights campaigner Hu Jia is released from jail while China’s Premier Wen Jiabao continues his two-day stay in the UK, visiting the Chinese-owned MG plant in Longbridge.
Hu Jintao blames a translation problem for initially ignoring a US reporter’s question on human rights, later saying he was “committed” to protecting human rights, as Lindsey Hilsum reports.
Our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, reports on the China-inspired boycott of Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony when the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo will be honoured in his enforced absence.