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Ian Williams

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As seen in: Channel 4 News, Daily Mail, Irish Daily Mail, Scottish Daily Mail, Flipboard, This is Money, East Asia Forum, The Spectator (World), Eurotopics, The Spectator Australia, Rural News Group
Author of 'Vampire State. The rise and fall of the Chinese Economy'. Longtime foreign correspondent in Moscow, the Indo-Pacific and China @NBCNews @Channel4News
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Japanese PM Takaichi’s Australia visit can shore up energy and economic security

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By Shiro Armstrong Verified, Ian Williams Verified
| East Asia Forum Verified
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is scheduled to visit Australia in late April, offering an opportunity to deepen the bilateral relationship and bring stability to regional affairs amid a sea of global uncertainty. Takaichi’s decisive electoral win in February 2026 brings political stability to one of the world’s largest economies. As Japan’s first female prime minister, Takaichi has smashed the glass ceiling in Japanese politics while reviving the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s fortunes.
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The battle to stop US universities aiding Chinese repression

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By Ian Williams Verified
| The Spectator (World) Verified
It goes by an innocuous name – “Integrated Joint Operatiot goes by an innocuous name – “Integrated Joint Operations Platform” (IJOP) – but it’s one of the most sinister components of China’s surveillance state, managing what has been described as a genocide against the Uighurs. The IJOP combines multiple systems of repression – location, messages, contacts, social media and other data from phones, together with information from checkpoints, cameras and biometric records.
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Was Trump and Xi’s meeting really a ‘12 out of 10’?

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By Ian Williams Verified
| The Spectator (World) Verified
Donald Trump says his meeting with Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea today was “amazing” and that, on a scale of one to 10, it merited a 12. Which means that on a scale for skepticism, it probably deserves a 13. Its biggest achievement appears to have been to at least put the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies on hold, though stock markets, excitable all week as the summit approached, opened flat this morning.
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