Affairs / Politics
Asia briefing
China's negative image and we scrutinise the stuffy wardrobe of its president, Hu Jintao.
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Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 12 November
New challenges for China’s new leader
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…
Affairs / Economics
Chinese Cheques
All over Africa, Chinese labourers are hard at work building railways, roads and national stadiums. In return, the continent’s developing countries are selling their oil and iron ore to the Chinese. The figures are stagg…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 3 January
Change is the only certainty in world politics
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.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 2 July
China and Hong Kong’s uneasy relationship
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.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 27 June
Lula conspicuous by his G20 absence
On Friday, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva announced he would miss this weekend’s G20 summit in Toronto so that he could supervise relief efforts in Brazil’s flood-stricken northeast.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 9 November
Divine democracy
It’s been a big week for elections political and ecclesiastical, and a week where chance has been seen as the enemy of the ballot box – except in one time-honoured rite where blind luck rules.
Affairs / Politics
Asia briefing
How China just got bigger and staying in touch with the dead in Japan.
Affairs / Society
Asia Briefing
China's Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan are put on the Style Leader spot, work has begun on a new airport near Beijing that will become the world's largest, and India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh has a new leader after…
Culture / Television
Turn on to China
As part of a soft-power drive, the Chinese media is learning to talk a new language. Monocle visits the studio of CNC World, a recently launched 24-hour English-language news channel owned by the state-run agency Xinhua.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Diplomacy Briefing
Germany's Federal Intelligence Service's, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), relocation to central Berlin, Iceland's debate over membership in the EU, and New Zealand's cuts to its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Special relations
Nothing represents the shifting sands of global politics better than the African Union’s gleaming new HQ in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A gift from the Chinese, it’s proof of the Asian giant’s growing clout. But the Germans are…
Affairs / Society
Over the horizon
Monocle’s editors, writers and correspondents look ahead to 2012 and beyond.
Affairs / Soft Power
The new soft sell
Which countries get their way in the world without having to resort to military might? Who are the soft power leaders who know the value of well-placed aid or a good pop star? Over the following pages we name the top 25…