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Alex Lo
Columnist
Alex Lo has been a Post columnist since 2012, covering major issues affecting Hong Kong and the rest of China. A journalist for 25 years, he has worked for various publications in Hong Kong and Toronto as a news reporter and editor. He has also lectured in journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
From a US perspective, the outgoing president and his foreign policy team did surprisingly well. But without a supportive successor – or rather with an actively hostile one – their work is likely to come undone.
It was no accident that a law expert specialising in various charters had convinced fellow ‘Hong Kong 47’ conspirators to trigger legislative crisis.
Washington makes no room for New Delhi’s geopolitical ambitions but considers the Asian giant as just another asset in its Beijing containment strategy.
There is much to admire about the most dynamic society of the past 500 years, just not necessarily the kinds of things that have most mesmerised many Hongkongers.
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In our city, or as in much of the rest of the world, American officials can’t hear anything other than how awesome they sound when they speak.
As the United States surrounds China with bases and allies, Beijing is expanding business ties in Washington’s South American backyard.
Von der Leyen, Kallas and Baerbock have all got the new memo from Washington and are now busy doing the yellow-haired lord’s bidding.
Having hardliners Marco Rubio as secretary of state and Mike Waltz as national security adviser is like putting Al Capone in charge of the FBI.
The Dutch ASML has been slowly strangled by Biden with export restrictions to China. Now it’s the Taiwanese TSMC’s turn under the president-elect to hand over the manufacturing assets or pay high tariffs.
The death and displacement of millions of Muslims in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen mean little. But if they are Muslims in Xinjiang, suddenly, their lives take on phenomenal value – propaganda value.
As more angry female Democrats boycott men because of the election, their ‘4b movement’ will prove to be demographically self-defeating.
US is about to learn the meaning of unrestrained presidential powers, as watered-down checks and balances are offered on a plate to returnee.
Trump exploits how some Americans love cheap labour of undocumented migrants, but resent their presence in an increasingly non-white society.
Chinese prefer open trade and economic cooperation, but with America it’s all too often disgraceful behaviour, bombs, drones and special forces.
A new generation of AI-generated personas, to be virtually indistinguishable from real people, will be weaponised for information warfare.
Island leader is grasping at straws when he needs the reflected battle glory of the opposition KMT to poke at Beijing.
While Ottawa and its intelligence services were aping the US and chasing the shadows of ‘malicious’ China, the real threat was from elsewhere.
Republican in effect promises return to ‘strategic ambiguity’, which has long reinforced regional security but is now undermined by US and DPP.
Unlike China’s state-run think tanks and media groups, their Anglo-American counterparts have industry ties and interests whose influences are often far less obvious.
Washington wants to kill an international pilot payment system that can bypass the US dollar and banks, but the genie is already out of the bottle.
As public health standards decline and resources dwindle, the country’s medically assisted suicide programme no longer inspires confidence.
Britain’s prime minister would rather be inventive against Beijing than address harsh social realities back home.
Harris is predictable and will listen to the establishment. Her rival has a disregard for policies and processes that scares the daylight out of them.
The West’s proxy war is floundering while its moral case against Russia has self-destructed over its full complicity in Israel’s actions.
Beyond mere facts, the news media have always been about providing or manipulating their contexts to constrain how you think and lead you to the conclusions they want you to reach.
In his latest book, French thinker Emmanuel Todd describes a ‘nihilistic’ Washington establishment that has become a danger to itself and world.
The rise of China is not specific to the nation but part of a larger historic trend in the fall and rise again of the non-West – and of the reverse for the West.
The tragedy in the Middle East is that what Hamas’ Sinwar was to bin Laden, Israel is to America.
Reissued directive from the US Department of Defense clears the way for long-banned troop deployment to enforce law on domestic soil.
Unlike America, China has never claimed its system of government is universally applicable or tried to impose it by force on other nations.
