Stories written by Antoaneta Becker
Antoaneta Becker is IPS’s senior China writer. After twelve years of field reporting in China, in 2010 Antoaneta relocated to the U.K. where she covers China’s interactions with the outside world, the new paradigms of E.U.-China-Africa relations, China’s attempts to forge a new development model and the country’s impact on global markets for commodities. Antoaneta studied at Beijing University—China’s most prestigious academy—obtaining a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Chinese contemporary literature and film. She has reported on China for IPS, USA Today, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Outlook magazine and others. Fluent in Mandarin, Antoaneta has travelled extensively in greater China researching topics from environmental degradation to the overhaul of the country's state industries, the reform of the welfare system and the country’s increasingly large regional footprint.

G20: China May Not Play Saviour

Against a backdrop of rising expectations that it holds the key to global economic recovery, China has sent a subtle signal that its economic health is frail and that external pressure to revalue its currency will cause more damage than good.

China-EU Rivalry in Africa Sharpens

If China needed another prompt that the European powers have finally woken up to the fact they were losing the competition for the Africa pie, it came with France’s bid to recapture lost ground this month.

Xinran Credit: Antoaneta Becker/IPS

Q&A: China Pays a Price for the ‘Lost’ Girls

In a country like China, that regularly exorcises the ghosts of the past, few understand the importance of oral history better than Chinese writer Xinran.

Could a two-child policy be China

CHINA: Thirty Years On, Debate Emerges Over One-child Policy

Adept at navigating through politically sensitive anniversaries, the Chinese government has one more socially volatile date marked in its calendar: this year’s 30th anniversary of its one-child policy.

RIGHTS: As Taiwan Debates Death Penalty, China Stays Mum on It

Just as the death penalty is becoming a hot public issue in Taiwan, here in China it remains so much a matter of state secrecy that the numbers of those executed are kept under wraps from the public.

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