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There’s the Russian Goliath and the Ukrainian David, and Zelensky’s clothing choices have become a symbol of the strength and patriotism of a country under fire, writes Vanessa Friedman

Part 6: The Tibetan resistance continues, and thwarts a genocide

Part 3: Eastern Tibet is liberated 1956-57

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have forged a new partnership in Eurasia. How will that shape the global future?

Part 1: The feckless Tibetan government fails to prepare.

One Chinese printer rejected a history text saying the ancestors of Māori came from Taiwan; another insisted that 19th Century NZ dressmakers imported their silk from the People's Republic

The former secretary to the disgraced president talks about his new memoir and what it was like to go to prison for Nixon

It was “the week that changed the world”. On February 21 1972, Chinese leader Mao Zedong and US president Richard Nixon met in Beijing to reset their countries’ relations, which had been frozen for the previous two decades.

At the height of the Cold War, US President Richard Nixon flew into communist China's center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform US-China relations and China's position in the world in ways that were unimaginable at the time. The relationship between China and the United States…

The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdom

Beijing's Winter Olympics remind us of how everything in China is big, bigger — and even bigger