Asia

In China, you can barely move for pandas

I cannot emphasise enough how this black-and-white bear appears to have taken over the entire state

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Also: alternative medicines, and lessons from Imperial China

By Will Lloyd

The timing of this visit is itself an admission of defeat

By Katie Stallard

Are we seeing an end to the “freedom of the seas” in the Strait of Hormuz?

By David Wengrow

Intelligence agencies have been warning about efforts by Chinese spies to recruit British assets for years

By Katie Stallard

Peace is the least likely future

By Lawrence Freedman

China’s leadership will not welcome the prospect of a global oil shock

By Katie Stallard

Frank Dikötter charts the rise of Chinese communism through its brutality. But does he undervalue the role of ideas?

By Rana Mitter