As China awakes, the world order shakes

In the final part of our three-day series, Caroline O’Doherty says China’s influence is growing across the world but its leadership is increasingly aware of the need to pick its corporate battles carefully

WHEN George Clooney got arrested at a demonstration in Washington recently, he achieved the near impossible — getting a complex foreign policy story on to American tabloid TV news.

However, what was even more impressive was that the story wasn’t just a straightforward two-hander about the US and some enemy or client state.