Shadow War: China and the West

A personal account of day-to-day life in Iran told through the conversations of two Iranian sisters – one in the UK, the other in the Iranian city of Shiraz. Since the outbreak of war at the end of February, a near total internet blackout and a shutdown of international phone lin ...  Show more

The personal correspondence, photographs and papers of the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein have been released to the public in stages, beginning in December 2025, after an almost unanimous vote in the US Senate. The released files run to three and a half ...  Show more

As China changes leadership, Mukul Devichand probes Beijing's hidden battle of ideas. Unlike the messy democracy of elections in the US or Europe, the Communist Party's "changing of the guard" this autumn is set to be a sombre, orderly and very Chinese affair. But the dramatic sa ...  Show more

Who do you think the Chinese government considers its biggest rival? The United States, right? Actually, the Chinese government considers its biggest rival to be its own technology companies. It's China's tech companies who threaten its capacity to build a competitive China. That ...  Show more

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Is the sun setting on Western ideas as well as Western economies? Or is Western though ...

Géopolitique en partenariat avec Questions internationales autour de son numéro «La Chine et les Chinois dans le monde». Les différentes diasporas chinoises sont-elles considérées par Pékin comme des instruments de puissance, des relais stratégiques dans sa quête d’hégémonie régi ...  Show more