Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationalist, relations between Japan and China… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family. — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Unlike the Soviet Communist party, the Chinese Communist party chose to introduce capitalism. — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright.… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed.… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
One of the unique features of China is that, notwithstanding the fact that it has a population of 1.3 billion, around 92%… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races,… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance -… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal. — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
