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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.
Season of goodwill sees no let-up in the ever-vigilant United States, with food sources from China identified as new threat to national security.
As the world’s most respected human rights groups warn against the continuing Palestinian genocide, the US and Canada penalise China.
A video by the militant group against ‘Chinese infidels’ has been spread widely by mainstream news media, while similar propaganda by Hamas and Hezbollah are routinely suppressed or ignored.
An ignominious exit awaits unpopular Justin Trudeau after his long-time ally walks, but let’s hope he does not drag the country down with him.
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Two erudite commentators explain why the West’s strategic antagonism towards Beijing is both self-serving and misconceived.
The warmongering fantasies of the US entertainment and defence establishment are increasingly indistinguishable.
Pro-Beijing commentator who goes by the pseudonym ‘Wah Kee’ should have the courage of his convictions when it comes to criticising officials.
Ottawa might be on stronger ground if it had sanctioned both China and Israel on human rights, but just punishing one shows double standards.
If normal is stressful in the world’s most high-pressured country, maybe Koreans need to blow off steam, now and then, by going against their government and politicians.
Plaza Accord 2.0 reportedly set in motion by the incoming US president’s unorthodox team is likely to end with mutually destructive decoupling.
Accept ‘Greater Israel’ as a de jure state, resettle most Palestinians across the West and some in friendly Arab states, then compensate a small, token minority by granting them full Israeli citizenship.
Many fear the supposedly defunct ‘China Initiative’ – a racial profiling programme targeting Chinese-born scientists in the US – could return with a vengeance.
A wire service says a health insurance chief’s murder, a CEO’s ouster and the South Korea crisis are related. It’s right, but not in the way intended.
Spreading social malaise and economic stagnation in country reinforce political instability while being caught in worsening US-China rivalry.
Chinese political philosopher Xiang Shuchen lays bare the cultural and psychological roots of America’s Manichean view of Beijing and its ‘evil’ ways.
If there is anything worse than going after a hated opposition that enjoys a parliamentary majority, it’s having to back down almost immediately.
The modern state is all about big government and public spending. The right and the rich in the US like to rail against it while being directly or indirectly subsidised and supported.
Trump’s latest spat with Brics nations over their threat to challenge the greenback is premature despite Washington’s abusive weaponisation of the currency.
Having failed in two of the biggest geopolitical challenges of the century, the same Western elites are doubling down by moving against China.
Biden’s ‘small yard, high fence’ strategy may become ‘huge yard, tall fence’, prohibitively expensive to maintain and with diminishing returns.
Beijing has turned out to be a major force for stability while friends and foes alike are wreaking havoc around the world.
Instead of enhancing efficiency, new advisory unit is likely to push radical deregulation and slash manpower required to supervise big industries.
Contrary to far-left revisionism in Germany, the West would have had much cleaner, instead of bloodied, hands in its colonial history if it had followed the Iron Chancellor’s restraint.
Few commentators are better positioned than famous linguist Noam Chomsky to make sense of how American imperialism and Israeli colonialism have morphed together during the war in Gaza that has revealed their true colours.
Developing countries showing they prefer investment and infrastructure development over the West’s moralising hypocrisy and badmouthing.
Disgraceful veto of draft ceasefire resolution by US coincides with arrest warrants by International Criminal Court for Israeli pair on war crimes.
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.
