China

The West must not risk being blackmailed by China, as it was by Russia – that’s the lesson from the Ukraine war, warned Jens Stoltenberg in his final speech as Nato secretary general.

This past week, the G7, the group of the world’s richest democracies, gathered in Japan to discuss Ukraine, Russia, global affairs, and their increasing concerns about a rising power looking out at them from over the water: China.

They make more CCTV cameras than any other company in the world, and their products have been used by the Chinese government in the suppression of Uighurs in China. Britain’s use of Hikvision technology doesn’t just make human rights campaigners queasy. It’s also concerning for national security experts, who warn of the dangers of outsourcing…

China is staging three days of “combat readiness” patrols around Taiwan – sending military resources towards the island to practice encircling it. Beijing, which claims Taiwan is a breakway province – staged the drills after the Taiwanese president promised to continue working with the United States and other democracies following a meeting with the speaker…

Earlier we spoke to the Chinese American journalist Kaiser Quo and we began by asking him what we should read into what the Chinese Foreign Minister has been saying?

China’s foreign minister has warned of potential conflict with the United States – declaring that a policy of “all out containment and suppression” was a “zero sum game”. In his first press conference since taking on the job, Qin Gang said China’s close ties with Russia were a model for global foreign relations. It follows…

In today’s episode, Kiran Moodley speaks to Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, about China’s growing frustration with Moscow and the likelihood of a new Cold War. 

We speak to Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro, currently a Professor at Stanford University, but previously a senior China Strategist for the US Air Force.

A diplomatic spat is deepening between China and the US as they accuse one another of sending up spy balloons into each other’s airspace.  

At first the Chinese refused to admit the balloon was theirs, then they said it was a meteorological airship that had blown off course.

We speak to the Chinese artist and dissident, Ai Weiwei – and ask how significant the wave of protests in China really is.

Where next for this superpower and its third-term leader?

We spoke to Victor Gao, a lawyer and academic who previously worked closely with the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.

Video of former President Hu Jintow being unexpectedly escorted out of the ruling Communist Party Congress has drawn global attention – but little explanation.

Nury Turkel is a Uyghur American lawyer and human rights advocate.