While Beijing has mostly muzzled its rude envoys, its counterparts in Washington appear to be just getting started with their arrogant antics.

Danger posed by China-funded Chancay cargo project is not that it will become a naval base, but South America will see it as success of Belt and Road Initiative.

I ask my favourite philosophy podcaster and political theorist of the moment, Louis Devine, whether there is more to freedom than just the freedom of the individual.

Whether the White House will be turned into a geriatric ward or a den of crime, whoever wins will pose an even greater danger to the world.

American lawmakers cannot or will not deal with their nation’s own multitrillion-dollar debt problem, so they complain about China’s.

Contrary to senior diplomat Kurt Campbell’s wish, if mainland Chinese students can’t study advanced science and tech in America, they will just do it back home.

American commentators may be hoping to bring down Beijing, but the whole region and Global South do not want animosity, let alone conflict.

Sorry, but there is no crime wave in the country, and young college graduates are not doing so terribly in finding jobs relative to their foreign cohorts.

Despite the unfounded claim of the island’s ‘undetermined status’ favoured by some US hardliners and island secessionists, it has always been the case that it’s either the Republic of China or part of the People’s Republic of China.

The real moral problem is not that we mourn animals who pass away, but that we fret over the suffering of some people in the world but not others.

New book by noted Chinese-American sociologist offers fair assessment of achievements by China and a sobering prognosis for the future.

More countries in the region are rediscovering good neighbourliness and sound diplomacy to hedge against possible return of former US president.

While major parties clash over how to respond, probes show the country’s elections are rather robust against outside influence.

A news report saying Xi Jinping thinks America wants to set a trap for mainland China to attack the island should make us all sleep better at night.

Without naming names, a joint statement by 93 countries in a show of support for the International Criminal Court is an unmistakable rebuke of the lawlessness of US and Israel.

Psyop in the Philippines was subsequently considered legitimate in the strategy of ‘misinformation and propaganda’ against adversary states.

United Nations report warns US unilateral actions are hurting the very people they were supposed to be defending in China’s Xinjiang region.

US$38.3 million ruling for Colombian victims has been ordered against Chiquita, one of the world’s largest banana producers that traced its dark history back to the infamous United Fruit Company.

It’s foreign policy when Washington slams others for alleged violations, but foreign propaganda when America is seen as being the culprit.

The Netanyahu brothers mark the moral arc of Israel, from the heroic self-sacrifice of the older Yonatan to the wanton massacre in central Nuseirat under Benjamin.

City law professor and ex-chief prosecutor exposes how the local legislation is rooted in Anglo-American national security laws.

The city must be grateful for the expertise and service these members of the judiciary have provided, but they have served their historic purpose.

If the post-1989 history of mainland China is any guide, the city, too, will prosper after a period of adjustment that has followed the 2019 upheavals.

Greater familiarities with Shenzhen and beyond through weekend visits and with Britain through BN(O) migration are likely altering their perceptions of both places in fundamental ways.

As West steps up trade war, Beijing needs to develop strategic hi-tech fields and set up robust global supply chains for its goods and services.

Whether it’s a ‘no limits’ relationship between two countries, an alleged genocide, or wasteful industrial policy, the criticisms have all come back to haunt Washington.

Only the Ukrainian leader, not China, can secure his country’s nuclear safety and end the war – if he wants to, and if his Western backers would let him.

By risking a nuclear holocaust over Ukraine and a possible genocide in Palestine, Washington and Brussels are threatening peace and humanity.

Despite Western criticism, Beijing should be proud that in Washington and Brussels it’s now all strategy and trade protectionism all the time.