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US president-elect Donald Trump has previously said that Taiwan “stole our chip business”. Photo: TNS

My Take | With Trump, it’s payback time for Taiwan’s chips industry

The Dutch ASML has been slowly strangled by Biden with export restrictions to China. Now it’s the Taiwanese TSMC’s turn under the president-elect to hand over the manufacturing assets or pay high tariffs.

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My Take | Can America and China both become great again without clashing?

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My Take | Western values, what Western values?

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My Take | US women’s sex strike at Trump more farcical than Aristophanes

As more angry female Democrats boycott men because of the election, their ‘4b movement’ will prove to be demographically self-defeating.

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US president-elect Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at the conclusion of his final rally of the campaign at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 5, 2024. Photo: Reuters

My Take | There is an imperial presidency, and then there is emperor Trump

US is about to learn the meaning of unrestrained presidential powers, as watered-down checks and balances are offered on a plate to returnee.

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My Take | Anti-immigrant racism helped propel Donald Trump back into White House

Trump exploits how some Americans love cheap labour of undocumented migrants, but resent their presence in an increasingly non-white society.

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My Take | Friendshoring by China will outlast Western warmongering

Chinese prefer open trade and economic cooperation, but with America it’s all too often disgraceful behaviour, bombs, drones and special forces.

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Aerial view of Volkswagen cars to be loaded onto a ship at a port in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP

My Take | How Pentagon will fight ‘deepfakes’ – with even deeper fakes

A new generation of AI-generated personas, to be virtually indistinguishable from real people, will be weaponised for information warfare.

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My Take | Taiwan’s Lai is stealing valour from old Kuomintang heroes

Island leader is grasping at straws when he needs the reflected battle glory of the opposition KMT to poke at Beijing.

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My Take | How Canada completely dropped the ball on the threat from India

While Ottawa and its intelligence services were aping the US and chasing the shadows of ‘malicious’ China, the real threat was from elsewhere.

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India’s Home Minister Amit Shah attends an inauguration ceremony of Gopalanand Swami Yatrik Bhavan at a temple premises in Salangpur, in the western state of Gujarat, India on October 31, 2024. Photo: Reuters

My Take | Principle of dealing with cases in timely manner must be honoured

Sword of Damocles is hanging over heads of more than 7,000 people still waiting to hear whether they will be charged five years after protests.

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Lawyers of tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying leave the West Kowloon Court on December 18, 2023, following a hearing on Lai’s sedition and conspiracy charges in connection with the 2019 anti-government protests. File photo: Sam Tsang

My Take | How a victory by Trump can be good for peace in Taiwan Strait

Republican in effect promises return to ‘strategic ambiguity’, which has long reinforced regional security but is now undermined by US and DPP.

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My Take | One person’s think tank is another’s propaganda organ

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.

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My Take | A global financial war has just escalated on a new digital front

Washington wants to kill an international pilot payment system that can bypass the US dollar and banks, but the genie is already out of the bottle.

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A view of the International Monetary Fund headquarters building in Washington DC. Photo: AFP

My Take | Canada is giving (human) euthanasia a bad name

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

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A Canadian flag waves in front of a view of False Creek and the Burrard street bridge in Vancouver, Canada. Photo: Shutterstock

My Take | Starmer promises to show China who’s the boss in Asia

Britain’s prime minister would rather be inventive against Beijing than address harsh social realities back home.

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My Take | Is now the time for Hong Kong to once again try daylight saving?

Many would enjoy the longer evenings in the summer and such a move might even boost consumption, keeping people out and about for longer.

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My Take | Vladimir Putin has already won, whether you like it or not

The West’s proxy war is floundering while its moral case against Russia has self-destructed over its full complicity in Israel’s actions.

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(From left) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a family photo ceremony prior to the BRICS Summit plenary session in Kazan, Russia, October 23, 2024. Photo: AP

My Take | Lessons from great philosophers on how to read the news

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.

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My Take | How ‘the Blob’ frighteningly took over American foreign policy

In his latest book, French thinker Emmanuel Todd describes a ‘nihilistic’ Washington establishment that has become a danger to itself and world.

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My Take | How China and the West misconstrue the ‘century of humiliation’

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.

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American and Chinese flags wave at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou, China. File photo: AP

My Take | Foresight, not pivots, can restore confidence in China’s economy

China says a party-led system makes it more efficient than messy democracies. But ‘perfecting the system’ can bring its own risks.

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Pandemic control workers in protective suits take a break in Beijing in December 2022. China’s ability to impose widespread Covid control measures is held up as a success story for the system. Photo: Reuters

My Take | Some who study too much history end up repeating it

The tragedy in the Middle East is that what Hamas’ Sinwar was to bin Laden, Israel is to America.

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My Take | Chickens come home to roost as Pentagon prepares for unrest

Reissued directive from the US Department of Defense clears the way for long-banned troop deployment to enforce law on domestic soil.

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My Take | A sports dispute resolution system is long overdue in Hong Kong

A passion for sport is starting to take hold in the city along with a desire to host ‘mega’ events. But there is no clear process for settling differences.

(From left) Gold-medallist fencers Vivian Kong Man-wai, Edgar Cheung Ka-long, and bronze medals swimmer Siobhan Bernadette Haughey attend the JCAIAS cheque presentation ceremony. Photo: May Tse

My Take | US has become a terrible example of democracy for today’s world

Unlike America, China has never claimed its system of government is universally applicable or tried to impose it by force on other nations.

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A Donald Trump flag flies before a campaign rally for the Republican presidential nominee on October 12, 2024 in California. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

My Take | Heavy price of coal will continue to be paid by world for while yet

Rich, but tragic, vein of fossil fuel runs through a great grandfather in the mines of Yorkshire, China colliery death traps and closure of UK plant.

My Take | Israel has no place among the family of nations at the UN

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.

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My Take
My Take, a popular and sometimes controversial daily column of the South China Morning Post, analyses a variety of hot-button issues concerning Hong Kong, mainland China and the region.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
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