China must reopen its borders in time for the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, a top Chinese scientist has said. “China cannot isolate itself from the world when it hosts the Winter Olympics,” Zeng Guang, a former chief epidemiologist with the Chinese Centre for Disease Control

What kind of relationship does the UK want with China? More accurately, what kind of relationship can it afford? For most Britons – now emerging from a second national lockdown – it could seem like there are more important things to be getting on with. Yet

Two news stories this week highlight different sides to this tricky question. The first involves a leaked letter acquired by a journalist at the Daily Star Bangladesh, and the second, reported in the Global Times yesterday, describes a social media storm that has blown up in

As Israel’s speedy rollout of a Covid vaccine begins to impact the country’s infection rate, its health ministry last week announced the creation of a Covid-19 vaccine certificate. The so-called ‘green booklet’ will be issued to all those who receive two jabs of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

What will be the shape of tech collaboration between China and the UK in the future? The recent tussle over Huawei, WeChat and TikTok inspires little confidence. The UK-China Tech Forum, hosted today by TechUK, sought to paint a rosier picture. The web event highlighted ways

What people do, where they do it, and with whom, has turned inside out thanks to the stay-at-home boom in live streaming. One result of this has been to make patterns of internet use in the West look more like China. Kind of. More particularly, it

Social media use has increased dramatically as the stay-at-home economy has spread – in China by as much as 50%, according to a report last month by the market research company Statistica. How companies manage their social presence during the coronavirus outbreak is therefore of critical