VIDEO: China’s parade in time lapseThe Guardian’s video is a beautiful slow-mo, fast-mo overview of China’s 60th anniversary parade. It’s a tribute to awe-inspiring precision. We prefer giant butterflies at the end to the tanks at the start.
Chinese Communist Party
The man who controls Xinjiang
Communist Party Secretary Wang Lequan has run Xinjiang for 15 years with iron fist and velvet glove. He’s helped keep ethnic tensions under control by “subsuming Uighurs into a greater China”. Can it keep working?
Crossing the Floor with Bernard Keane: The week of yellow peril
This week, Australian politics was overshadowed by the sinister spectre of Chinese communism.
The Coalition’s shameful Red Scare campaign
The Coalition is now in the throes of the biggest Red scare since the 1950s, writes Bernard Keane.
Time to stop China digging all the way to Australia’s assets
Why on earth should Kevin Rudd allow the Chinese Government to become the biggest shareholder in Rio Tinto, which owns more than $100 billion worth of Australian resource assets? Stephen Mayne looks at the implications of the potential acquisition.
