Beijing in Autumn
I made a 10 day trip to Beijing in late October/early November 2025. This was my first trip to Beijing (and China) since October 2019. I visited Beijing eight times between 2016 and 2019, for at least a week on… Read More ›
Recent Posts
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Why has the west fallen behind China in the green tech race?
An article was published in the Financial Times yesterday (13th January 2026) entitled ‘How the west fell behind in the green tech race’. It describes how China “has become the global powerhouse in renewable energy technologies, supplying more than 90… Read More ›
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Zhou Li: ‘The Main Contradictions in Today’s World and the Changing International Situation’
Zhou Li’s article entitled ‘The Main Contradictions in Today’s World and the Changing International Situation’ (‘当前世界主要矛盾与国际格局演变’) was published on the Aisixaing website last Saturday 5th March. It was first published in the China CITIC Group’s ‘Economic Herald’, but I have… Read More ›
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Shi Yinhong’s Essay on the Current State of the World and the Long Term Trend in International Relations
Shi Yinhong was born in 1951 and obtained BA, MA and PhD degrees from Nanjing University. He has been a Professor in the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing since 2001. He is also the Head of… Read More ›
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Xiao Gongqin’s Essay on “How the Chinese People Rediscovered Their Cultural Self-Confidence”
Xiao Gongqin (萧功秦) was born in 1946 and graduated from Nanjing University. He is a Professor at Shanghai Normal University and has been a visiting professor at a number of western universities. He is well known as an exponent of… Read More ›
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Zhao Tingyang’s Essay on “A Possible Type of Smart Democracy”
Brief note on the author Zhao Tingyang was born in 1961 and is a graduate of Renmin University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of… Read More ›
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List of Aisixiang Articles Read and Summarised
As of March 2021 I have published nine summaries of articles from the Chinese Aisixiang (爱思想/’Love Thought’) website. I have read many more than that however. I will set out in this post a list of both the articles I… Read More ›
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Liu Xiaofeng’s Essay on “A Country’s Suffering and Geopolitical Consciousness”
Brief note on the author Liu Xiaofeng is a Professor in the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China. He was born in 1956 and like most of his age group spent time ‘in the countryside’ in his youth… Read More ›
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Why Did Western Countries Fail to Prevent the Spread of Covid 19？
[NB: This article was written by me in June 2020 in Chinese, I have now translated it into English. The original Chinese version is below. This is NOT a summary of an article published on the Aisixiang (爱思想) website. Why… Read More ›
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Zhao Hong: Restrictions on Individual Rights in China During the Covid-19 Pandemic, and their Limitations
Zhao Hong (赵宏) is a Law Professor at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. She obtained BA, MA and PhD degrees in Law at Chinese universities and pursued further studies at Tubingen University in Germany. The… Read More ›
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Wen Tiejun: The Pandemic – Both a Crisis and an Opportunity for China
Note on author: Wen Tiejun (温铁军) is a a Professor at Renmin University in Beijing and the head of the University’s School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. Wen is 69 years old and like so many others of his… Read More ›
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Lin Yifu: The Impact of Covid-19 on the Global Economy and China’s Response
Note on the author: Lin Yifu (林毅夫) is a prominent Chinese economist. According to his entry in Baidu Baike (the Chinese version of Wikipedia), he is 68 years old and was born in Taiwan. He has an unusual background. He… Read More ›
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