It was a remarkable stand-off. On Saturday morning, a number of cars carrying Chinese executives from Jingye, the parent company of British Steel, showed up at the main gate of its Scunthorpe plant.

With pomp, pageantry and patriotism, China presents itself as a global superpower. Will the "China model" be its next big export to the world?Thousands of soldiers marching in tight formations, ...

Jacob Dreyer is an editor for business, economics, politics and law at Palgrave (a subsidiary of Springer Nature), based in Shanghai, China. Rao Yi is a leading reformer of science and education in ...