Offering an alternative lifestyle to Shanghai and Beijing, Dalian is a vibrant student city with an easier pace of life. You might not have heard of it but this is one of the world’s biggest outsourcing centres.
Tuesday 17 January
It’s not rare to see China in the Middle East – Chinese tourists, traders, and goods are everywhere. But for Premier Wen Jiabao to make a state visit takes a special occasion.
Monday 28 September
Beijing will play host to an emphatic demonstration of China’s growing military power on Thursday when a panoply of new military hardware is unveiled at this year’s National Day parade, marking the 60th anniversary of the…
Monday 6 June
Global security in the 20th century was largely an Atlantic question; in the 21st century it may well be a Pacific one. The rise of China is understandably making Asian defence ministers nervous, but at last weekend’s…
Sunday 3 April
When it reopened last month after extensive renovations to the tune of £235m, the National Museum of China edged out New York’s Metropolitan to become the largest museum in the world.
Sunday 15 August
China is famously hungry for resources and knowledge of all kinds – but military high technology whets the country’s billion-man appetite more than anything else.
Chine beefs up its air force again, and India builds a strike force to ready itself for Himalayan border disputes.
Friday 15 February
Be it a friend, a business contact or both, meeting face-to-face helps create stronger ties.
Adrian Cheng is CEO of one of Hong Kong’s largest businesses, with fingers in all kinds of pies. But, he says, it’s easy juggling responsibility when you have the right team supporting you.
Wednesday 10 November
It looked as though China stepped up the game to challenge the US, or at least US space-supremacy, at the end of last month when it launched another satellite in its second-generation Compass Navigation Satellite System …
Sunday 9 January
With half the Christmas presents opened in Europe last month having started life on Chinese production lines, it seems only fair that the European Union should want to sell more of its own goods to the moneyed Chinese and…
Sunday 14 March
Taiwan remains 90 miles off the Chinese coast, but politically the island might just have shifted in the mainland’s direction.
Monday 12 November
You can’t take enough precautionary security measures when the current and future leaders of the world’s most populous country gather to swap government posts and swear-in the generation of people who will rule for the next…
Monday 2 July
Two days ago Hong Kongers took to the streets in the tens of thousands to mark the 15th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China.
Tuesday 8 December
About 1.3 billion people sitting around the mother of all fires: that’s how I see China in the great climate debate.
With China refusing to recognise Tibetan self-determination claims, the Himalayan nation’s government is forced to sit over the border in northern India. Monocle speaks to its newly installed prime minister-in-exile.
Wednesday 17 August
Any day now, China will launch the first aircraft carrier in its Navy’s history.
Tuesday 3 January
If 2011 was all about unexpected changes in leadership, with dictators toppled and autocrats teetering, 2012’s leadership shifts should be a bit more predictable.
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