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Accept to Lockdown, Be Arrested, Queuing for Covid Tests: China’s Changing Social and Economic Landscape By Tom Clifford, November 28, 2022
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Holds Its Annual Strategic Private Meeting: “Shaping the Future of China”. Deep-seated Political Divisions within Chinese Leadership? By Tom Clifford, July 27, 2022
China’s “Zero Covid” Mandate: Devastating Social and Economic Impacts By Tom Clifford, June 15, 2022
China: Times Are Changing for a Country that Wanted to Change By Tom Clifford, April 06, 2022
Memo to the White House: Don’t Talk Down to China if You Want Beijing to Cooperate By Tom Clifford, March 24, 2022
China’s Wait-and-See Inaction in the Ukraine War By Tom Clifford, March 17, 2022
China’s Economy Not as Strong as Beijing Proclaims or the West Fears By Tom Clifford, February 15, 2022
An Appreciation of a Modern-day Troubadour. “The Meat Loaf Story” By Tom Clifford, January 25, 2022
Xi Jinping’s Challenges: China’s Deep-seated Economic and Social Crisis By Tom Clifford, December 08, 2021
China Enters Era of “Cultural Resolution” By Tom Clifford, November 17, 2021
An American General Has Suggested that His Country Could Attack China By Tom Clifford, September 16, 2021
Afghanistan: To be Integrated into China’s “Belt and Road” By Tom Clifford, August 16, 2021
Party Over in China as Communist Party Takes Back Control By Tom Clifford, August 04, 2021
China’s Communist Party’s 100th Anniversary: “Today’s Blending of Rampant Capitalism and the Heavy Hand of the State” By Tom Clifford, July 01, 2021
The China Rising to Global Dominance Scenario. China, The “New Bogeyman” By Tom Clifford, June 09, 2021
Why Did John Le Carré Become an Irish Citizen? By Tom Clifford, April 07, 2021
One of the Great Ironies: As China Grows Richer, It Is Growing Further Apart from the US By Tom Clifford, March 31, 2021
Britain’s “Pivots to Asia” to Contain China By Tom Clifford, March 17, 2021
China’s “Economic Race” with the US is Over? Beijing Set to Focus on Building Domestic Production Networks? By Tom Clifford, February 24, 2021
US President Biden: How to Deal With China By Tom Clifford, January 22, 2021
5 Million Cases Worldwide, 650,000 Deaths Annually: The Seasonal Flu Virus is a “Serious Concern”, But the Wuhan Coronavirus Grabs the Headlines By Tom Clifford, January 02, 2021
Xi Jinping’s “China First” By Tom Clifford, November 25, 2020
The Decline of the US Does Not Mean Plain Sailing for China By Tom Clifford, November 18, 2020
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India and China Dispute: The World’s Longest Unmarked Border By Tom Clifford, June 17, 2020
China’s “Two Sessions” in Beijing Against a Backdrop of COVID-19 By Tom Clifford, May 19, 2020
What Does Post-COVID19 China Look Like? Mutual US-China Mistrust is the “New Normal” By Tom Clifford, April 27, 2020
Will China’s Economy be Revived After the COVID-19 Pandemic? By Tom Clifford, March 19, 2020
The New Coronavirus Outbreak, COVID-19, Sounds Menacing and Is By Tom Clifford, February 25, 2020
Coronavirus Has Been Declared a Global Emergency. What’s Happening in China By Tom Clifford, February 01, 2020
Is 2020 China’s Year of Economic and Political Milestone? By Tom Clifford, January 20, 2020
“One Country, Two Systems”? Britain and Northern Ireland on Brexit By Tom Clifford, December 17, 2019
China’s Perspective: Economic Growth over Military Spending By Tom Clifford, September 11, 2019
The Beidaihe Political Summit: Is the “Chinese Dream” Still Viable? China’s Debt Crisis By Tom Clifford, August 22, 2019
Brexit, The Tories and the “Irish Question” By Tom Clifford, July 24, 2019
Are We Seeing Trump’s Changing Stance on China and North Korea? By Tom Clifford, July 02, 2019
Hong Kong’s Extradition Bill Is Not in China’s Interests By Tom Clifford, June 18, 2019
Full-blown US-China Trade War? Rare Earths – US Has So Much to Lose, China Barely Feels the Loss By Tom Clifford, May 31, 2019
Emperor Akhito’s Abdication: A New Era for Japan’s Military? By Tom Clifford, April 24, 2019
China Sees Some Light in the Failure of the Hanoi Summit By Tom Clifford, March 01, 2019
Rule Britannia against China: New UK Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth into the South China Sea in 2021? By Tom Clifford, February 13, 2019
China Is a Work in Progress: Renewable Energy, Science and Technology, Battle against Air Pollution By Tom Clifford, January 17, 2019
China-Japan Arms Build-up By Tom Clifford, November 29, 2018
America-China Relations. Donald Trump Does Not Understand China By Tom Clifford, December 09, 2016
Cerro Rico, Potosi: The Mine that Funded an Empire By Tom Clifford, October 18, 2011