Articles By George Walden
April 2018
A former diplomat and politician during the Cold War asks whether the threats posed by Russia and China are now more ominous than ever
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October 2016
America's post-Cold War strategy failed with Russia — will it fail to limit Beijing's aggressiveness too?
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May 2015
"Lee Kuan Yew met every Chinese leader from Mao to Xi Jinping. But is China following his Singaporean model?"
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October 2014
'If the Chinese have shown cynical duplicity towards Hong Kong's democrats, the British have been guilty of self-delusion'
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July/August 2014
A perfect book for anyone suffering from a surfeit of Thomas Piketty
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November 2012
Tombstone, by Yang Jisheng, is an uncomfortable read but a brave and important account of the huge human cost of Mao's Great Leap Forward
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July/August 2012
Many a British art worthy maintains we all could have been Anthony Blunt. Rubbish: he deserved nothing less than exile in Russia
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April 2012
Neuroscientists attempt to reduce the greatest aspects of human behaviour and existence to material Darwinism. We should be sceptical about their overblown claims
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January/February 2012
Book review of Martin Amis: A Biography by Richard Bradford
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July/August 2011
Despite Ai Weiwei's release on bail, we should expect no relaxation in the Communist Party's repression of intellectual freedom
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December 2010
The future of art isn't determined by raw cash, as some lamenting the Coalition's Arts cuts dramatically make out
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May 2010
The recent air space shutdown has highlighted that only mad dogs and Englishmen would acquiesce to the aural torture of living under flight paths
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October 2009
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
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May 2009
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
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March 2009
It's fashionable to say the US is in terminal decline. Don't bet on it - still less wish for it
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November 2008
Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager
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July 2008
Wolf Totem is a disconcerting mixture of nationalism, lupine metaphors and nostalgia for the age of nomads. But what does the novel’s runaway success tell us of the aspirations of the new China?
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About George Walden
George Walden is a former diplomat and Conservative Minister, now a writer. His books include Who's a Dandy, God Won't Save America, Time To Emigrate, and China: A Wolf in the World?
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