Kristian Niemietz: What difference does the size of the state make to how is deals with Covid? None.

If it were the critical factor, Belgium should have been superbly prepared for the pandemic. Alas, it was not.

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.

Ryan Bourne: A reassuringly conservative speech from Starmer’s Shadow Chancellor. The Tories will need to up their game.

This is not to say that all of Dodds’ analysis is coherent or correct, but the days of unhinged Corbynite attacks on capitalism are over.

Malcolm Rifkind: We need a global response to Beijing’s belligerence, inhumanity and mendacity

Tonight, a major new report will be launched by the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, which sheds a light on Xi Jinping’s brutal regime.

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.

Neil O’Brien: Here are three urgent responses to China’s growing power – which we will soon have an opportunity to make

The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy gives us the chance to act coherently and effectively.

Jason Reed: Taiwan, Britain and the UN. It’s time to rethink the One-China Policy.

The Coronavirus coverup, assaults on democracy and the appalling genocide of the Uyghur Muslims mean that the world must distance itself from the CCP.

David Skelton: Brexit can unleash a new era of reindustrialisation. But only if we are free from state aid laws.

This renaissance could place the UK at the vanguard of the most industries and technologies over the coming decades.

Ryan Bourne: A message for Johnson and Sunak on tax rises. Not now. And not these.

Modest consolidation over decades is one thing; large increases over a Parliament would be quite another.

Matt Kilcoyne: Anti-democratic China is testing the West’s resolve, and it’s CANZUK that has risen to the occasion

Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom joined the USA in condemning moves to shut down free and fair elections in Hong Kong.

Wanted: an international solution to the plight of the Hong Kongers

Three million of them are unlikely to pitch up here, but government must plan for all eventualities – and support for its plan wouldn’t survive a mass influx.

Neil O’Brien: Like fax machines, pagers and your old macarena CD, it’s time to bin the 1990s

The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.

Andrew Green: We cannot responsibly fling our doors open to three million Hong Kongers

This is 25 times the number of skilled work permits issued each year to non-EU citizens and their dependants.

Interview with Chris Patten: We must stand up to the Communists in Beijing who hate freedom in Hong Kong

“I’m very, very positive about China, but I’m very, very negative about the Chinese Communist Party.”

Iain Dale: The EU’s insipid response to China’s Hong Kong aggression. Another reason to be glad we’re leaving.

Plus: Trump. Racist, divisive, narcissistic. I can say that – but Johnson can’t. And: the return of the #virtuesignallingtastic Gardiner.