Economy

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 …

The success of many British companies operating in China today is, in large part, a product of the post-Mao reform movement and the plan for economic growth that avoided either the ‘shock therapy’ economics of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe or wholesale neoliberalism, says political economist Isabella Weber. Paul French finds out more The arguments over reform in China throughout the 1980s and since have been much commented upon …