🗣 ‘The reaction has been that anyone who calls for a more sophisticated approach to China is seen with an ulterior motive.’

📺 The Week in 60 Minutes | Cindy Yu (Cindy Yu) on how we should understand China

👉 youtube.com/watch?v=aEXGEq…

In the latest The Spectator, I write about playing 'Codenames' with Westminster's alleged spy, how a British citizen might get recruited by China, and the *wrong* takeaway from this saga 👇

spectator.co.uk/article/how-i-…

Very interesting Telegraph piece about why we're hearing about the arrest of two alleged spies, six months on

'The security services are understood to be unhappy that the arrests have been made public.'

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…

Amidst chattering about a Westminster Chinese spy…

spectator.co.uk/article/i-d-be…

Latest #ChineseWhispers is an explainer on Confucianism and its millennia old tussle with a more Machiavellian tradition – legalism, which advocates power and might. Which better explains the China of today?

W/ Daniel Bell, former dean of Shandong Uni🎙️

spectator.co.uk/podcast/is-chi…

🚨Don't forget to RSVP to our TNG event next Tuesday!

🍷Join the ASI team and Cindy Yu for an evening of interesting political discussion and (free!) wine

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Those who remember Tiananmen will remember Wu'er Kaixi, the passionate 21 year old student leader, exiled after June 4. I interview him in Taipei and we talk about the pains of banishment, his 'survivor's guilt' and advice for Hong Kong's new exiles

spectator.co.uk/article/i-want…

Those who remember Tiananmen will remember Wu'er Kaixi, the passionate 21 year old student leader, exiled after June 4. I interview him in Taipei and we talk about the pains of banishment, his 'survivor's guilt' and advice for Hong Kong's new exiles

spectator.co.uk/article/i-want…

Enjoyed joining Adam Fleming for Newscast today, chatting Cleverly’s diplomacy, Chinese students in the UK and the moment Xi Jinping’s translator was barred at BRICS 👇🏼

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Prigozhin may have been Lin Biao’ed!

“It’s not China-dominating… the countries themselves made it into a real economic alliance and now its turning into a geo-political one”

Spectator columnist Cindy Yu says BRICS is not about shifting dominance to China

bbc.in/2Ps915G

One beach resort has hosted Communist leaders for most summers since 1953. It was here that the Great Leap Forward was decided, and from here that Marshall Lin Biao escaped

Sinocism's Bill Bishop and historian James Carter join #ChineseWhispers 🏖️

spectator.co.uk/podcast/what-b…

Ten years ago it was said that China was “in a race to get rich before it gets old”. It looks to be losing that race and the fallout will ripple around the world.

Have a listen to one of my favourite guests, Cindy Yu, explain what is going on. A smartifying 20 minutes.

🎙️ The only five minutes on inflation you need with Cindy Yu and I on Coffee House Shots.

spectator.co.uk/podcast/will-r…

The rate of youth unemployment has arguably become more sensitive than GDP growth in China. As of today the country will no longer publish this stat

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I've previously written about the employment crisis that's led to this point 👇

foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/17/chi…

As China announces it will no longer be publishing youth unemployment data, a shoutout to Cindy Yu's excellent podcast series Chinese Whispers for The Spectator, in particular the episode where Karoline Kan discusses this very issue

spectator.co.uk/podcast/young-…