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.

Official media was happy to take potshots at US democracy after the Biden-Trump debate, but it does not want to be seen to be taking sides.

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.

As the city seeks to move on from recent troubles and meet the challenges ahead, the concept behind “one country, two systems” is the best hope.

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.

City can go the way of Wardour Street eatery and change its image for visitors, but it needs greater understanding, not more cheesy adverts.

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.

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.

Post-Covid Hong Kong has struggled to redefine itself as it faces challenges to its past identities as a finance and retail centre.

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.

Sumption’s reasons behind his resignation from the city’s top court have put the focus on the need to strictly uphold judicial independence.

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.

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

Those that remain must continue to deliver strong judgments that demonstrate their independence and protect the city’s rights.

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.

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.