China

Spheres of Influence
25th September 2011
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
It seems inevitable that Chinese-­American relations will increasingly come to preoccupy the world. The United States continues to be the only global superpower, but in the not-too-distant future China promises to acquire the status of an equal or near equal.
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China to Trounce U.S. in Next Decade
7th July 2011
The National Interest
The Western financial crisis heralded a significant shift in the balance of power between the United States and China.
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Civilization state versus nation-state
15th Jan 2011
Suddeutche Zeitung
China confronts Europe with an enormous problem: we do not understand it
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China’s star is rising fast – and it will change the world
11th May 2010
The News Tribune
The spats between the United States and China appear to be getting more numerous and more serious.
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It seemed impossible, but at last Martin Jacques got justice for the wife he loved
4h Apr 2010
The Observer 04/04/10
Martin Jacques defied the odds to expose racial prejudice and medical negligence in a Hong Kong hospital. Here he tells of his feelings on learning that his 10-year struggle was over.
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Crouching Dragon, Weakened Eagle
16th Feb 2010
New York Times online edition 16/02/10; Christian Science Monitor 17/02/10; The Huffington Post 17/02/10; International Herald Tribune 17/02/10;
The spats between the United States and China appear to be getting more numerous and more serious.
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Beijing raises its voice
1st Feb 2010
The Guardian
China’s tough response on US arms sales to Taiwan reflects the shift in the global balance of power
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No Chance Against China
25th Jan 2010
Newsweek
Google’s defeat foretells the day when Beijing rules the world.
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What will Chinese hegemony look like?
1st Dec 2009
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
The West has lost its bearings. It has no sense of the future
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Understanding China
22nd Nov 2009
Los Angeles Times
The West has gotten it wrong on China for decades - even as it embraces a market economy, it has shunned Western-style freedoms. And its power is only growing.
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Why America Must Learn to Bow
21st Nov 2009
The Daily Beast
The president’s visit to China was seen as failure, but what if that was just the new standard? Martin Jacques on why the U.S. must get used to decline—and learn humility.
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Don't judge China by our standards
1st Aug 2009
The Independent
The Chinese state has a competence that far exceeds that of Western states
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Identity runs deep in China
10th Jul 2009
The Guardian
A powerful sense of Han identity pervades China – any respect for Uighur difference would break with centuries of attitudes
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A new sun rises in the east
25th Jun 2009
The New Statesman
China will emerge over the next half-century as the world’s leading power. But how will Chinese hegemony be expressed, and how will the west deal with its displacement and sense of loss?
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Currency, culture, Confucius: China's writ will run across the world
24th Jun 2009
The Times
The rise of the East will change more than just economics. It will shake up the whole way that we think and live our lives
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Is western supremacy but a blip as China rises to the global summit?
23rd Jun 2009
The Guardian
The country's trajectory and the change in its people's values and aspirations are cause for heated debate. Two experts go head to head
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Welcome to China’s millennium
23rd Jun 2009
The Guardian
Our myopic model of modernity means we have yet to grasp not just that the future will be Chinese but how very Chinese it will be
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The great shift in global power just hit high gear, sparked by a financial crash
20th Apr 2009
The Guardian
As an emboldened China sees, the American dollar is gravely wounded. And the days of US political supremacy are numbered
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No-one rules the world
23rd Mar 2009
The New Statesman
US economic power is crumbling, but China is not yet ready to take over the reins.
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Global recovery rests on fresh US approach to China
13th Feb 2009
The Guardian
Salvation does not lie in demagogic attacks. Beijing must be treated as an equal - or another Great Depression beckons
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China is back on familiar territory
19th Jun 2008
The Guardian
As relations warm with both Taiwan and Japan, China is resuming its centuries-old position as the linchpin of east Asia
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As China’s power grows, the diaspora starts to flex its world-wide muscle
11th Jun 2008
The Guardian
Poverty once drove their mass emigration, but the overseas Chinese now revel in the status and wealth of their homeland
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The superpower
2nd Jun 2008
The Guardian
To judge by the preoccupations of western, and especially American, politics, the defining event of this decade was, without a shadow of doubt, 9/11.
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His master’s voice
15th May 2008
The Guardian
Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, is promoting military intervention in Burma. This is dangerous imperialist idiocy
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Hu’s diplomatic know-how
8th May 2008
The Guardian
This is supposed to be China's year - and by travelling to Japan, its president is showing fresh willingness to tackle one of its most difficult relationships
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The citidels of the global economy are yielding to China’s battering ram
23rd Apr 2008
The Guardian
A key appointment at the World Bank shows the importance of Beijing to the institutions it will soon come to dwarf
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Life in the fast lane
26th Mar 2008
The Guardian
Tata's purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover signals that India and China are turning the old hierarchy of global trade on its head
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Spotlight on grievance
17th Mar 2008
The Guardian
Events in Tibet expose China's achilles heel: its inability to recognise and respect ethnic difference
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Imperial overreach is accelerating the global decline of America
28th Mar 2006
The Guardian
The disastrous foreign policies of the US have left it more isolated than ever, and China is standing by to take over
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The most important meeting in the world
20th Apr 2006
The Guardian
For the sake of all of us, Hu Jintao and George Bush need to get on.
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Eye off the dragon
11th May 2006
The Guardian
China's opposition to action against Iran shows how it is increasingly at odds with the United States. It is a shame Washington hasn't noticed.
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If the 20th century ended in 1989, the 21st began in 1978
25th May 2006
The Guardian
Eleven years before the epochal events in Germany, a seismic change was taking place in China
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This is the relationship that will define global politics
15th Jun 2006
The Guardian
China will be the next superpower: already it's in competition with the US for the hearts and minds of the developing world
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China is well on the way to being the other superpower
8th Dec 2005
The Guardian
The rapidity of the Asian giant's rise is overturning western received wisdom about politics and the shape of the global future
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As China rises, so does Japanese nationalism
17th Nov 2005
The Guardian
Japan is stuck in its past, and its refusal to come to terms with it threatens to define its future and that of the whole of east Asia
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Victims of convulsions now transforming China
11th Oct 2005
The Guardian
Now that Mammon has replaced Mao, corruption is fuelling the rural inequality opened up by migration to the cities
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It is national sovereignty that has given China and India their edge
17th Sep 2005
The Guardian
The defeat of colonial rule will come to be seen as the defining event of the 20th century
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Cold war, take two
18th Jun 2005
The Guardian
US v China will soon be the dominant fault line of global politics
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East is east - get used to it
20th May 2005
The Guardian
As Japan has shown, and China will too, the west's values are not necessarily universal
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The Middle Kingdom mentality
16th Apr 2005
The Guardian
At last China's culture of racism is being contested by Chinese
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No monopoly on modernity
5th Feb 2005
The Guardian
American dominance is bound to wither as Asia's confidence grows
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