Catastrophe looms unless China signs water-sharing agreement with India
Barry Gardiner MP, chair of Labour Friends of India, writes on the desperate need for a water-sharing agreement between China and India over the Brahmaputra River.
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UK developing cyber weapons: Do we have a doctrine?
The UK government are taking concrete steps to stop the daily incursions into government networks but doctrinally are still vague.
Arab Spring latest: Murder, civil war and motor racing
If the Spring has run dry it’s because of the ruthless cruelty of the dictators, not any lack of democratic will or bravery on the part of the protesters.
David Miliband: EU relations with “great national powers” are a cause for concern
Dominic Browne reports on David Miliband’s speech in which he expresses concern over EU relations with “great national powers”.
Is China slowly killing off the death penalty?
Amnesty UK’s Clare Bracey reports on the Chinese government’s tentative steps towards removing the death penalty.
54 years on from Mao’s “hundred flowers speech”, China remains unfree
Liu Xiaobo is undoubtedly one of those flowers that Mao beckoned from the ground and like his predecessors, he too was weeded out. Yet as any gardener is aware, some plants will not be eradicated, writes Kate Allen, director of Amnesty UK.
How can we take the green message into the mainstream?
Seph Brown discusses the Fabian Society Nexy Left conference debate on the environment, titled: “Green Gloom: How do we win the argument for the planet?”
China comes bearing gifts for better understanding
As the Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang visits the UK, Sonny Leong, publisher and chair of Chinese for Labour, reports on why Britain needs to work with China.
Michael Gove: An Idiot Abroad
Sonny Leong, chair of Chinese for Labour, discusses Michael Gove’s controversial comments on Chinese education.
We need to move on from the clichés and misunderstandings about China
The coverage of David Cameron’s visit to Beijing has brought the usual litany of clichés and misunderstandings about China, drawing unabashedly on a fine tradition of western depictions of the Oriental “other”. China is unfailingly presented as a totalitarian state, headed by inscrutable politicians with “plastic smiles”. Its population is an undifferentiated mass, herded into conformity by severe limitations imposed on personal freedom.