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Jonathan Fenby

Jonathan Fenby is the author of Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today. He blogs on China at www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china.

Police forces gather in street outside the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris

France was gripped by tension even before the shootings at Charlie

Police forces gather in street outside the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris

France was gripped by tension even before the shootings at Charlie

A nurse looks at the abandoned newborn baby resting in an incubator after he was rescued from a sewage pipe at a hospital in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. Firefighters in eastern China rescued the abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe directly b

It’s not just newborn babies abandoned in China

Chinese delegates applaud the result of a vote during the Chinese Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People on October 21, 2007 in Beijing, China.

Where materialism now rules, ‘Marxist morality’ might not find a

Chirac strikes out in favour of the workers

Chirac strikes out in favour of the workers