Gary Gibbon
G20 summit: can the UK stay relevant?
Can Britain maintain the relevance Mrs May seeks outside the EU?
-
Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo dies in custody aged 61
The Nobel prize-winner and Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo has died. He was several years into his 11 year sentence for his contribution to a pro-democracy manifesto which called for the end to China’s one-party rule.
-
20 years since Hong Kong handover to China
China’s president Xi Jinping has marked 20 years since Britain’s hand over of Hong Kong – by warning that any activities which threaten Chinese sovereignty or authority are “absolutely impermissible”. President Xi was speaking as Hong Kong’s new leader Carrie Lam was sworn in – there were a few clashes during a protest outside, but…
-
North Korea’s missile flop
America says it’s working with China to respond to the growing crisis over North Korea’s nuclear missile programme.
-
Rex Tillerson travels to Beijing
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has met with the Chinese President – brushing to one side recent tensions between Beijing and Washington.
-
China opens new trade route to UK
While Boris Johnson says he can sketch out post-Brexit trade deals on the back of an envelope, one of the world’s most powerful trading nations, China, has just opened a new route into Britain.
-
Trump on Russia and China
Donald Trump has declared he may lift sanctions against Russia – and abandon the One China policy which doesn’t recognise a separate Taiwan.
-
Gary Gibbon
-
Gary Gibbon
May seeks to calm Brexit fears in China
Japan, among others, are nervous about the effect of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU on foreign investment.
-
Gary Gibbon
Beijing’s warning shot for Theresa May over Hinkley
China’s ambassador to the UK warns Theresa May Britain must stay open to Chinese business, as doubts grow over a joint nuclear project.
-
Gary Gibbon
China – Three’s a crowd in a carriage
If you listen back to the garden party tape you can actually hear the Commander D’Orsi say to The Queen: “They also wanted to come in your carriage with an interpreter.” The Queen replies: “Yes” after the word carriage.
-
South China Sea dispute: China ‘deploys missiles’
China deploys surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island in the South China Sea, say Taiwan and US Officials.
-
China pays £6bn for nuclear power station stake
China agrees to invest £6bn for a 33.5 per cent stake of a nuclear power station to be built at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Critics have complained that the project does not represent value for money.
-
Gary Gibbon
Cameron off the naughty step with China
Pro-Tibet demonstrators were massively out-numbered by a well-planned bussed-in deluge of pro-regime supporters from all over the country.
-
Steel: Tata announces 1,200 job cuts
Britain’s biggest steel maker Tata confirms that hundreds of people are to lose their jobs at plants in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire.
-
Lindsey Hilsum
Britain and China: 200-year-old lesson learnt, but is it too late?
Britain is going all out to get Chinese investment and to increase British exports, but the Chinese are pragmatic too. They’ll invest where they will get a good return and import the best products.
