Neil O’Brien: I can laugh off China sanctioning me, but we can’t shrug off the threat it poses

The UK and governments across the west have started to act.  But we’re still just starting to figure out how to respond.

Neil O’Brien: Five lessons from the pandemic

It’s striking that the countries that did best during Covid are those, like Taiwan and South Korea, which live under threat of annihilation by their neighbours.

The China genocide amendment. Our politicians should decide our trade policy – not our judges.

There’s a case for empowering our courts to make a genocide ruling over the Uighars. But not for giving them a veto on trade deals in doing so.

Garvan Walshe: Democracies need to pull together to stop Chinese subversion of the open global economy

We deceived ourselves into thinking that as China grew richer, its political system would become more democratic.

The Conservatives risk obsession with China to the exclusion of other threats, including Russia and Islamist extremism

As the great eye of the Conservative Party swivels its gaze towards the Far East, it’s in danger of missing other threats that are closer to home.

Hugo de Burgh: We owe it to future generations of Brits to work with China

It is our third largest market – we must work with it if we are to help resolve global problems from the environment to nuclear proliferation.

The triumph of Whatsapp and trouble for the whips

Groups of MPs are able to beat their jungle drums into a frenzy. And the powers-that-be have limited capacity to quieten them.

Neil O’Brien: Why Conservative MPs have set up the China Research Group

The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t really believe in free or fair markets and has a strategy based on domination, not fair competition.