Published by The i paper (8th August, 2022) Nine days after Donald Trump was ousted from the White House by voters in the US, I found myself reporting […]
China / World
How Hong Kong was swallowed by the Chinese dragon
Published by The Daily Mail (30th June, 2022) For almost half a century, the glitzy Jumbo Floating Restaurant was one of Hong Kong’s best-known sights as it sat majestically […]
China / Covid19 / World
Will China’s ‘Zero Covid’ crackdown ruin the Olympics?
Published by The Daily Mail (17th January, 2022) The timing could not be worse. Omicron has seeped into China on the eve of the Winter Olympics, forcing the government […]
China / Covid19 / Health / Policy / World
So why did the science establishment try so hard to silence those who feared Covid leaked from a Chinese lab?
Published by The Daily Mail (12th January, 2022) Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the world-famous Wellcome Trust, has condemned the policy failures of politicians in the pandemic while […]
Kazakhstan / World
Downfall of the gangster dictator
Published by The Daily Mail (7th January, 2022) Dictatorship was once famously compared to riding a tiger since there is such high risk of being devoured when dismounting […]
China / Covid19 / World
How China made Covid worse
Published by UnHerd (9th December, 2021) Two years ago this week, a middle-aged man in Wuhan caught a strange respiratory disease. The 41-year-old accountant was called Chen and […]
China / World
Exposed: China’s 18 concentration camps
Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st November, 2021) As he strolled along the street in the Chinese city of Urumqi, trying his best to look like a tourist, […]
China / World
Confessions of a Chinese torturer
Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th October, 2021) As we sat in the cafe of a smart hotel, the beefy man beside me disclosed how he beat, […]
Arts / Books / United States / World
Seeing red
Published by The Spectator (11th December, 2021) Wildland: the Making of America’s Fury by Evan Osnos (Bloomsbury) After leaving college more than two decades ago, Evan Osnos landed […]