Cary Huang

30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, China’s digital barriers are stronger and protectionism is making a global comeback

The end of the cold war failed to reshape China, which used the free market and technology to build a prosperous surveillance state

Now, a US-led coalition of democracies are ranged against the world’s last major communist power in a new cold war

Cary Huang

Published: 12:00pm, 20 Nov, 2019

Updated: 12:15pm, 20 Nov, 2019

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Cary Huang is a veteran China affairs columnist, having written on this topic since the early 1990s. He joined the Post in 2004, and was based in Beijing between 2005 and 2013, first as a correspondent and then as bureau chief. He was previously China editor at The Standard from 1992 until 2004.

30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, China’s digital barriers are stronger and protectionism is making a global comeback

The end of the cold war failed to reshape China, which used the free market and technology to build a prosperous surveillance state Now, a US-led coalition of democracies are ranged against the world’s last major communist power in a new cold war

The end of the cold war failed to reshape China, which used the free market and technology to build a prosperous surveillance state

Now, a US-led coalition of democracies are ranged against the world’s last major communist power in a new cold war