Are China’s ports and shipping companies being used to spy on the world?
The growing reach of China across the global port industry is a decades-long trend that ...
Just as European struggles once shaped the world, now it is the turn of Asia – more specifically, China, according to this fascinating interview with FT foreign affairs analyst Gideon Rachman. The swing away from the west is being defined as a process of “easternisation” and with President Trump seemingly intent on turning the US inwards, long-term American allies are reassessing their standing. Australia has already undergone a shift, with China becoming a more important trading partner than the US. ...
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