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1 month ago | blogs.soas.ac.uk | John Gittings |Aki Elborzi

By John Gittings | 27 February 2025 This is a selection from an album of two hundred images that I have chosen out of several thousand photos taken while reporting for The Guardian from 1978 to 2003.

2 months ago | blogs.soas.ac.uk | Rowan Callick |Aki Elborzi

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, sees the world’s fascination with – and in places distaste for – Donald Trump as offering the Chinese Communist Party a further opportunity to seize ideological, economic and possibly also territorial ground in what he views as an epic global battle with the US. Many of our opinion leaders in Australia (as, one would imagine, in other Western countries including the UK), distressed by Trump and his circle, are set to intensify their antipathy to the USA.

Jan 16, 2025 | blogs.soas.ac.uk | Jemimah Steinfeld |Aki Elborzi

By Jemimah Steinfeld | 16 January 2025 When I first started work at Index on Censorship I was reporting on, and sometimes from, China. Now because of my work at Index I can’t go back. That’s a hard pill to swallow.

Nov 18, 2024 | blogs.soas.ac.uk | Jonathan Fenby |Aki Elborzi

Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory is set to open up both challenges and opportunities for each side in the US-China relationship. Given the mercurial ways of the once and future President, it is hard at this stage to predict how these will pan out either for China or for his administration.

Jul 3, 2024 | blogs.soas.ac.uk | Jonathan Fenby |Aki Elborzi

For almost half a century, China’s economy has served its political masters well. Despite the challenge from protestors which was suppressed in 1989, high growth and the benefits which it has brought to the population has been a cornerstone of the Communist Party’s grip on power since Deng Xiaoping launched economic reform in the 1970s, and re-launched the process with his Southern Tour of 1992.