The World Today: August & September 2019: China at 70

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Tomorrow belongs to Beijing, but how can China win hearts around the world, asks Rana Mitter

Yu Jie, a Chatham House senior research fellow, charts the rise of the superpower in the East but warns of testing times ahead

China’s economic miracle is reaching its limits and is in danger of doing more harm than good, writes Geoffrey Yu

Tim Summers profiles Chongqing, China’s economic powerhouse

Conflict in Syria has soured Turkey’s relations with the West, writes Hannah Lucinda Smith

Fate of power sharing deal in Sudan rests in the hands of wealthy donors, writes Mohamed El Aassar

Over the past 40 years, China’s progress from a self-reliant autarky to a global economic power has been nothing short of miraculous.

Articles

Four questions to American academics Graham Allison and Niall Ferguson on how the world will adapt to a rising superpower

Laura Codruta Kovesi is speaking during a press conference after the President of Romania sacked her on July 9, 2018 in Bucharest.

In 2006 Laura Kövesi became the first woman to serve as Romania’s prosecutor general and was later named the head of the Anticorruption Directorate (DNA).

Australia and New Zealand are targets of Beijing’s strategic game, writes Cleo Paskal

Building boom threatens an ‘inexhaustible’ resource, says Thomas Ringheim

Edward Lucas assesses a spook’s polemic on counter-intelligence failings

Judith Matloff applauds the bravery of female war reporters

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