Paris’ mayor has relented after initially ruling out air cons for athletes’ village, but excessive ice use risks damaging environment even more.
Two self-proclaimed leading democracies openly embrace and celebrate mass murder as Israeli leader again addresses joint session of US Congress.
With isolationist Trump on the White House horizon, Kyiv needs to ‘triangulate’ diplomatic pressure on Washington, Moscow and Beijing.
Can the US vice-president take on the now virtually unassailable Donald Trump? Who knows? But she’s a sure bet on there being plenty of comic relief between now and November.
The hot tech field may have become a genuine contest between Chinese state capitalism and American ‘free market’ capitalism.
What was once the Russian hi-tech sanctions story has been repurposed for the Chinese ‘dual use’ narrative that is being spun by Washington.
It makes sense for Beijing to expand services sector, but none for US to transfer higher productivity in services to lower one in manufacturing.
Third plenum offers significant guidance on China’s new modernisation and ‘deepening’ reforms, setting the direction for many years to come
For many, life under the migration scheme to escape ‘tyrannical’ Hong Kong has turned into a vale of tears.
In a US plagued by gun violence, it’s little surprise that an election could be decided by an attempt on former president’s life.
Most regional countries want none of it, but four Trojan horses – South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand – are ready to let them in.
Ongoing multi-year propaganda campaign against China is US modus operandi to demonise adversaries and prepare domestic public for war.
Far-reaching judgment granting near total immunity to presidents draws imaginative dissenting views from justices citing Seal Team 6 and fatal poisoning of US attorney general.
Divide and conquer, well-honed in Middle East and Latin America over decades, is being applied to only real growth engine of world economy.
Most Asian countries can manage frictions with China, and do not want to see a Nato presence to worsen security and prosperity in their neighbourhood.
By granting nearly total immunity to the president, the US Supreme Court has completed the historical arc of the American empire that has long been above international law.
Hong Kong should not dismiss UN rights report on the city but it doesn’t need more propaganda spin from Uzra Zeya and Consul General Gregory May.
Heckler who provided intelligence and common sense against speaker Matt Pottinger, a China hawk, tackled and put in chokehold by security.
In America, the state serves finance, in China, it’s the other way around. That’s why the US financial services sector is highly predatory by using debt to ensnare clients and consumers.
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.
