Features

Lezak Shallat discovers why Latin Americans are learning Chinese.

Chinese investors may bring manufacturing back to the West, discovers Libby Tucker.

Resource wars? Climate armageddon? What business-as-usual in China will mean for the rest of the world.

Egyptian economist Gouda Abdel-Khalek talks with Rowenna Davis about China’s political plays in the Middle East.

A guide to who’s running the show in China.

China’s aid and arms are promoting one-party governments, argues Rebecca Tinsley.

Facts and figures about China’s growth and what it costs.

Throw away the guns. Nick Young reports on the conquering power of Chinese culture.

Chris Richards meets ‘Capi-communism’ – the Chinese version of capitalism that’s plundering Papua New Guinea.

Strategies for social cohesion

Class or culture – which has caused Mauritius the most upset? Lindsey Collen looks back.

Shoma Chaudhury on the hate mongers intent on tearing up the very idea of India.

Faith schools get a bashing even from committed multiculturalists. We talk to one supporter who currently teaches English at a secular school in Australia.

Canadian multiculturalism is in rude health and has licked the kinds of problems that crop up in other countries. Haroon Siddiqui explains how.

A divided society needs new answers and new identities, argues Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

With Dinyar Godrej, whose personal journey as an immigrant reveals some of the faultlines of multiculturalism, making the case for looking beneath the smokescreen of ‘culture clash’.

Campaigns, contacts and resources.

How free-market fundamentalism brought the world to its knees

Recession heads South – and meets resistance.

As the empire of international finance collapses, David Ransom finds the chance to reset the compass towards democracy, equality and the survival of our planet.