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It is a chilling reminder to all who believe in the rule of law and an open society of China's present threats to our way of life' Chris Patten (Lord Patten of Barnes), last governor of Hong Kong and current Chancellor of Oxford University Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/6d6634c0-143b-4b93-ac77-7bf07d7f458e/Screenshot+2025-08-31+at+13.28.24.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/66bdc6e0-2b17-4697-9e17-d7e7291a3ff8/Chinese+EVs_Williams.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/61e75bea-26a3-4c50-8955-7e6d4bca6d4e/Screenshot+2025-05-10+at+11.10.49.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/44403f65-62cc-46bd-8a48-1e432771f553/IMG_5849.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/e5388bc1-bbaa-4120-8219-a90ae35b619d/Screenshot+2025-05-10+at+10.59.41.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/5fc8076d-b9d6-48cb-b03f-3e6dd52cb577/Screenshot+2025-04-05+at+17.47.49.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/778c0aed-bcd6-407c-963e-4ce72096753f/Screenshot+2025-04-05+at+17.54.55.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/a44cae6d-c5ec-4548-b7aa-927b08528d30/IMG_5310.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/5b21d0be-580e-4900-baae-c279ef69b5f0/CamScanner+11-09-2024+13.19n_1+copy.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1630262664105-61UJEBXJ6N2OO52633XU/IMG_0430.jpeg Home - The Spectator, 10 July 2021 One of the first places Professor Stephen Toope visited as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University was the Chinese embassy in London. He posed for photographs with ambassador Liu Xiaoming and the two men discussed furthering the ‘golden era’ of China-UK relations. Shortly after that 2017 meeting, Toope told Xinhua, China’s state news agency: ‘There will be more opportunities to engage actively with China, a country with an extraordinarily growing influence which a university like Cambridge must pay attention to … Read More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1614796149672-8DC7MZ6LHHP9QJJWS7RU/ZERO+DAYS+full+cover-2.jpg Home - Zero Days ‘Williams’s excellent sequel to 2017’s Beijing Smog … … (a) tale of a privacy-destroying big tech spying empire, where “connected” household devices can become savage weapons’ Publishers Weekly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1614796025587-IUHWML2KKRRW45QPM35W/BEIJING+SMOG+draft+1.jpeg Home - Beijing Smog ‘A biting satire of corruption and repression in modern China. Ian Williams has reported on China for more than 20 years and his debut novel has a lot of fun exploring the cynicism of the country’s Kafkaesque system’ Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1614797661555-Q6RHLUN8V0UEVBGSFNS0/Box+set.png Home - The (e) box set Now available - Beijing Smog and Zero Days together as an (e) box set. 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It threatens the ruling Communist Party ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1571409154277-G428Z2GRDD9KE4EEGJRR/SCMP+grab.jpeg Beijing Smog From Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. Read more https://ianwilliamsauthor.net/zero-days daily 0.75 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1615114510092-19O78HRNHDB4I06JQTO4/Zero+days+full+rez+cover.jpg Zero Days - A new and dangerous computer bug is sweeping the internet It’s smart, quick, sophisticated, and developed by elite hackers working for a cybercrime syndicate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1584294662222-4JT9BXK1IX66TDN0QQVU/publishers-weekly-logo-lt.jpg Zero Days - ‘Williams’s excellent sequel to 2017’s Beijing Smog … https://ianwilliamsauthor.net/about daily 0.75 2025-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1615034111575-9SM1LP3XFYYCQSQBHEOV/_E4A3790.jpg About - Ian Williams is an author and award-winning journalist who has reported from across the world. He covered business and technology for the Sunday Times before moving to television. He was a foreign correspondent first for Channel 4 News in Moscow (1992–1995) and Asia (1995–2006), and then for NBC News (2006–2015), based in Bangkok and Beijing. Ian has travelled and reported from across China. He has also covered conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine. He won Emmy and BAFTA awards for his discovery and reporting on the Serb detention camps during the war in Bosnia. 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She informed her managers, but they failed to act and told her to keep quiet. So she staged a protest in the company canteen and shared details of her ordeal in an 11-page document posted on a company message board ... Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1630265604469-XYTB5J37KNHRX5Q0P6IU/Screenshot+2021-08-29+at+20.32.46.png About The Spectator, 31 July 2021 The most shocking thing about the news that the government is looking to remove China from Britain’s nuclear power programme is that it has taken so long. But it will not be a straight-forward process. Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1630265778335-BZ7V6XBKAULOBTWDGQTL/Screenshot+2021-08-29+at+20.35.33.png About The Spectator, 22 August 2021 China greeted America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan and the Taliban seizure of power with a mixture of glee and trepidation. Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1630433141786-KTHMSBNCD53ADV2X6UOJ/Screenshot+2021-08-31+at+17.58.04.png About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1630265188178-73O9PXBGHLRYNVCTM26Q/Screenshot+2021-08-29+at+20.25.35.png About The Spectator, 10 July 2021 One of the first places Professor Stephen Toope visited as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University was the Chinese embassy in London. He posed for photographs with ambassador Liu Xiaoming and the two men discussed furthering the ‘golden era’ of China-UK relations … Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1630265381850-GWRDH05YMEPE0QCVT9KE/Screenshot+2021-08-29+at+20.29.10.png About The Spectator, 24 July 2021 There is, it seems, no regime too odious to be a partner of China. Being repressive and corrupt have long been useful assets for gaining the friendship of Beijing, but its recent embrace of the ‘Butcher of Damascus’, Bashar al-Assad, carries reputational and other risks for China – even when it doesn’t have much of a reputation to lose … Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1630264761166-9KGRGZA6KJG789DGHVU7/Screenshot+2021-08-29+at+20.18.36.png About The Spectator, 4 July 2021 Days after a nuclear power plant began spewing deadly radiation, the ruling Communist party pushed ahead with a huge and self-indulgent celebration of the sort that had become a hallmark of its rule. This was no time for bad news, and the party delayed, dithered and hid the truth about the deadly events that were unfolding … Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1630264947214-NG7JYYYVWGTWFZTOGAHA/Screenshot+2021-08-29+at+20.21.50.png About The Spectator, 6 July 2021 It is widely acknowledged that Britain has some of the world’s finest cyber capabilities. GCHQ is a global leader in those dark arts, and its offshoot, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is making that expertise available to businesses and others in need of help with their digital defences. All the more shocking, then, that our political leaders seem so utterly clueless … Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1623155736219-VXMLW0SYXVFYXTP3T8DM/Screenshot+2021-06-08+at+13.34.33.png About - The World Today, June-July 2021 edition What's next for China's surveillance state? I argue that the Communist Party is looking to make permanent the technology it field-tested with chilling effect during the Covid-19 pandemic, and that a new law supposedly to protect privacy cannot be taken seriously. Read More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1630267115490-V1JL55GWYC0VWIBG1HA7/Screenshot+2021-08-29+at+20.03.48.png About - Make it stand out The Spectator, 28 June 2021 There can have been no more avid viewers of the CCTV footage of Matt Hancock’s snog and grope than China’s cyber spies, chuckling in some dark room in Beijing and asking each other, how can it have been so easy for somebody to obtain? 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Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d9b67322fd98b05eb951383/1620409240087-FCPZQ67Z9V6NKYHUCRQ2/IMG_0303.jpeg About - The Spectator US, May 2021 Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social media. It also made for a productive afternoon for Zhao Lijian. 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