China's made no secret of its ambition to annex Taiwan and its military exercises this week in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait were a show of might that left no room for doubt. Time is running out, says John MacNab.
Prof David Livermore writes a postcard from Taiwan, a country where children ride motor scooters on the footplate but 90% of food sellers wear face masks. And where a 'good pandemic' has given way to 20% excess deaths.
In an unexpected move, the Chinese drone manufacturer DJI has stopped selling drones to Russia and started selling them to Ukraine. Does this signal a shift in China’s attitude to the conflict?
