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Billy Huang
Billy Huang is a media veteran who has worked at leading organisations across the Pacific, including Xinhua News Agency in Beijing, CNN headquarters in Atlanta, MediaCorp in Singapore, KyLinTV in New York and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He was part of the CNN team that won the 2005 Peabody Award and the 2005 DuPont-Columbia University Award.
Official responses after Li Wenliang’s death show little sign Beijing realises that the muzzling of information has life-and-death consequences for the world. An unrepentant China may leave the world no choice but to decouple and keep a distance
Despite trade tensions, from Ohio to Kentucky to Louisiana, Chinese FDI is building factories and creating jobs. State governors welcome and court Chinese investment; Trump should start listening to them.
Why lambast protesters’ violence but not the government coercion that led to it, or failure to punish triad attacks? We should keep in mind that Gandhi promoted non-violence, but his greatest contempt was for those who cower in the face of injustice.
Nationalistic mainland Chinese may not have the full picture on the reasons driving the protests in Hong Kong and further afield. It is up to supporters of the movement to provide that context, so today’s opponents can become tomorrow’s supporters.
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The patriotic fervour and self-righteous attitude that some overseas Chinese students have displayed, at the expense of other people’s rights and freedoms, is the result of years of imbibing Communist Party propaganda.
Asia has never had an equivalent of the Western civilisation, in terms of global influence. China has a chance to build such a civilisation, though it has strayed from the path set by Deng Xiaoping after his visit to Singapore.
Influential Chinese-Americans have condemned racial profiling in the US, but are coy about sensitive issues in China. It is understandable, given the businesses at stake. But they should consider Albert Einstein’s courageous example.
Kublai Khan bestowed honour and respect on two Italian merchants 750 years ago, and now that Italy is on board with the Belt and Road Initiative, can Xi Jinping do better?
After the US college admissions scandal, the discourse has exacerbated the vulnerability of Asian Americans, the most unfairly treated ethnic group so far in college entry
Huawei’s lawsuit against the US government seems reckless, in the context of cases involving foreign tech firms that go to court in the US. But maybe the Chinese company is just trying a distraction trick out of the ‘Thirty-six Stratagems’.
Chinese entrepreneurs seem well versed in the art of doublespeak, which dates back to a philosophical dichotomy in the Qin and Han dynasties. The practice is culturally acceptable in China but does not go down well in the West.
Poland is just the latest US ally to demonstrate its support of American policy on China. Meanwhile, the silence of countries expected to back China shows that it is fighting a lonely battle.
Strides made in recent days in the church’s relations with China, Vietnam and North Korea can only be good news for the church faithful. With the Pope a relentless critic of Western capitalism, now’s a good time to mend the rift.
The US indictment is only the latest twist in the long-running saga of its complaints about China’s intellectual property theft. Beijing’s steely response, as expected, only ratchets up the tension over the trade war.
