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Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang review – a daughter of China speaks again

The bestselling author returns with an account of how her homeland has changed – and the personal costs of fame

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2025

Autocrats and tech bros want to live for ever. Here’s how bleak that future could be

My novel explores the consequences of extreme longevity. Meanwhile, Putin and Xi are pondering immortality in real life, says writer-strategist Hanna Thomas Uose

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2025

Is China's SCO a counterweight to NATO or just geopolitical theatre?

Once a modest Central Asian security forum, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation now pits Beijing’s ambitions against Western dominance, with its August summit casting President Xi Jinping as a champion of a new multipolar order. But internal rifts raise doubts that it can rival NATO.

Radio France Internationale · Sep 12, 2025

Projecting dissent: China’s new politics of resistance under surveillance

As China ramped up its security in Bejing ahead of its largest military parade in history, over in Chongqing, a city of 30 million people, slogans mysteriously appeared projected on the walls of a university residential complex. “Only without the Communist Party can there be a new China,” read one.…

The Conversation · Sep 9, 2025

Jimmy Lai’s son gives Hong Kong dire warning: ‘Release my father or see him become a martyr’

Sebastien Lai says international community must send China message that its repressive actions have ‘very real consequences’

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

North Korea’s Kim heralds new ICBM rocket engine test as ‘significant’

Kim supervised test of new solid-fuel rocket engine for N Korea’s ICBMs, in latest development of his missile arsenal.

Al Jazeera · Sep 9, 2025

Xi Jinping is in a race against time to secure his legacy in China

The Chinese military parade that had the world talking last week was more than just pageantry. It was a declaration that Chinese leader Xi Jinping sees himself in a race against time to secure his place in history.

The Conversation · Sep 9, 2025

Kim Jong Un oversees ‘eye-opening’ test of new long-range nuclear missile

Kim has called for further advancements in North Korea’s long-range weapons

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

BRICS Leaders Denounce Protectionism, Tariff 'Blackmail'

Leaders of the 11-member BRICS bloc railed against economic protectionism and "tariff blackmail" during a virtual meeting Monday held amid a damaging trade war with US President Donald Trump.

International Business Times · Sep 8, 2025

What we learned about North Korea at the summit in Beijing

China invited world leaders to its capital, Beijing, recently to celebrate the 85th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in the second world war. Western leaders were notably absent. But despite the presence of many other leaders, such as Russian president Vladimir Putin, it was the arrival of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un…

The Conversation · Sep 8, 2025