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Alex Lo
Alex Lo
Toronto
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.
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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.

As public health standards decline and resources dwindle, the country’s medically assisted suicide programme no longer inspires confidence.

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.

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.

Given its murderous attacks on UN staff in Gaza and declaration of its chief as ‘persona non grata’, it’s about time to invoke Article 6 of the UN Charter to expel the rogue state.

Mass immigration gives the US a huge advantage over everyone else facing depopulation but it’s a double-edged sword that has escalated domestic strife.

Netanyahu has long understood with each escalation towards – from Gaza and the West Bank, then Lebanon and now finally, the prized war against Iran – the US will capitulate bit by bit, until it has no autonomy left in the Middle East.