Brand Xi

Since coming to power in 2013, Xi has recentralised authority in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, using a mix of patriotism, brutality and convenient events like the COVID pandemic.

Biden’s right, Xi is a dictator

It’s not every day that a New Zealand prime minister takes China’s side in a disagreement between Washington and Beijing over whether the leader of China is a dictator, but these are extraordinary times.

China crisis

Could Xi Jinping be toppled by a coup d’état? In China coup, Roger Garside describes precisely such a scenario.

China’s Hitler or Stalin?

Xi Jinping’s assumption of total power, his brutal internal repression of dissent and increasingly naked aggression against neighbouring countries has drawn comparisons with both Hitler and Stalin, but which of the 20th century’s great dictators does this 21st century tyrant most resemble?

China’s third revolution

On the brink of a new cold war, China has more instruments of power than it has ever had, but its challenges and missteps mean that the world’s democratic countries still have the upper hand – at least for the moment.