Charles Parton
Honorary Fellow
Charles Parton OBE is Chief Adviser to the Council on Geostrategy’s China Observatory, as well as a fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and Mercator Institute for China Studies. He served as a diplomat for 37 years, spending 22 of these working in or on the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. For his final posting, he was seconded to the European Union’s Delegation in Beijing as First Counsellor.
Putting trade and investment with China into perspective
China, science and technology: Advancing geopolitical aims
Anti-Americanism will remain the foundation of the PRC’s foreign policy
Understanding Xi Jinping’s ‘reform and opening up’
Could the South China Sea bubble over into conflict?
China: The top 10 priorities for early Labour government action
China-European Union relations: Expectations for 2024 and beyond
China’s 2024 Third Plenum: Great Expectations or Hard Times?
Chinese politics in 2024: Indications from the ‘Two Sessions’