Political analyst and academic Kerry Brown looks ahead to what we can expect from the UK-China relationship in 2022 Britain and China’s relationship in 2022 will offer a continuation of themes and issues we have seen developing over 2021. Geopolitically, the tensions between the US and the People’s Republic will continue to overshadow everything else. Having signed up to the AUKUS (Australia, UK, US) security pact in September, and framed …
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Kerry Brown explains that the Opening up and Reform has led to legitimise China’s political leadership
Political analyst and academic Kerry Brown explains that the Opening up and Reform has led to legitimise China’s political leadership December 2018 will mark a big moment in China’s calendar of anniversaries of major events. Around 20th December 1978, increasingly influenced by the veteran leader Deng Xiaoping, but officially under the Chairman’s chosen successor Hua Guofeng, a newly reinvigorated (for the second time) post-Mao era leadership declared that Communist members …
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40 years of opening up: The reform and opening up policy introduced in 1978 not only changed China, but the entire world
The reform and opening up policy introduced in 1978 not only changed China, but the entire world. FOCUS asks people that have laid witness to these four decades of change to share their thoughts on China’s past, present and future. Words by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, Lord James Sassoon, Kerry Brown, Lord Michael Heseltine, and Richard Robinson In December 1978, China’s leader Deng Xiaoping, announced that China would start a period …
With China’s increasing prominence on the global stage, Kerry Brown thinks it’s time for a new cross-cultural dialogue One of the frustrations of dealing with China in the decade after it entered the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001 was the ways in which, almost daily, the People’s Republic was clearly an emerging economic superpower but one that continued to act diplomatically like it belonged to the middle ranks. The …