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7 Jan 2019 1 minute read

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Trade in turmoil: part one

The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird...

The Chinese waste ban is giving the global recycling industry an enormous headache. ... Beijing has last year banned the imports of 24 varieties of solid waste, including types of plastic and unsorted paper.

5 Dec 2018 7 minute read

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No more of your junk

Adam Liebman explains why we need a less rosy notion of what actually happens to our recycling.

13 Sep 2018 4 minute read

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Is China detaining a million Uyghur Muslims?

The country’s economic influence may be buying silence on a massive human rights violation. Nithin Coca...

A youth is escorted by Kenyan police officers as dozens of houses are being demolished to make way for a new road in the Kibera slum in Nairobi.

31 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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View from Africa: Progress without people

Nanjala Nyabola on Kenya’s embrace of the Chinese development model.

8 Jul 2018 6 minute read

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China: a post-neoliberal order?

For Martin Jacques, 2008 represented the end of the Western-dominated financial system and the beginning of...

A freight train that originated in Duisburg, Germany arrives in Dazhou, China.

31 May 2018 6 minute read

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One belt, one road

Wayne Ellwood looks at the scale of China’s ’Belt and Road’ juggernaut and its economic and political...

Chinese pollution on Gambian coast

30 Apr 2018 2 minute read

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Chinese pollution on Gambian coast

Residents from a coastal village in the Gambia are suing a Chinese-owned fishmeal plant accused of pollution, writes...

China homosexuality

2 Jan 2018 1 minute read

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‘Curing’ homosexuality in China

LGBT+ people are subjected to forced confinement, medication and electric shocks to try to change their sexual orientation,...

Mountains May Depart review

26 Jan 2018 2 minute read

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Film picks of the month

Mountains May Depart, by Jia Zhangke, and Makala, by Emmanuel Gras are reviewed this month...

North Korea Crisis: A ground-based interceptor launches from the US's Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

6 Nov 2017 4 minute read

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What to do about North Korea, Mr Trump

This crisis has a solution, writes Vanessa Baird, as Donald Trump visits Asia.

Industrial robots China

1 Nov 2017 5 minute read

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Robots, not humans: official policy in China

Industrial robots are being put to work on a huge scale. Jenny Chan looks at the case of Foxconn.

31 Aug 2017 8 minute read

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The West and Asian education: a fatal attraction

Why the West must stop copying China’s flawed education system, by Yong Zhao.

China’s anthem tempo-tantrum

1 Jul 2017 1 minute read

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China’s anthem tempo-tantrum

China’s appetite for citizen control is going one step further with a new bill that seeks to regulate how fast citizens sing...

1 May 2017 2 minute read

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Preventing the killing of Tibet's mother tongue

Tibetan faces rapid urbanization, dwindling numbers of native speakers, and the even greater threat of Chinese policies,...

30 Nov 2016 13 minute read

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The coming war on China

A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of...

1 Dec 2016 1 minute read

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From this month's guest editor: John Pilger

Journalist John Pilger introduces the December edition of New Internationalist magazine.

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