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Snow covers the paths, streets and the Bismarck monument in Hamburg, Germany on February 26, 2018. Photo: AFP
War and conflict

My Take | Bismarck was no rabid Western imperialist

Contrary to far-left revisionism in Germany, the West would have had much cleaner, instead of bloodied, hands in its colonial history if it had followed the Iron Chancellor’s restraint.

Crime in China

My Take | China’s authorities may struggle to address people’s emotional needs

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Israel

My Take | The mainstreaming of long-time critic is a symptom of US empire’s decline

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China

My Take | EU, US losing battles for Africa and Latin America to China

Developing countries showing they prefer investment and infrastructure development over the West’s moralising hypocrisy and badmouthing.

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A group of small scale miners try to start up an old metal mine in Uis, Namibia on February 13, 2008. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong politics

My Take | Ultimate aim of universal suffrage seems further away than ever

Jail terms over a subversion plot are a tragic end to what was hoped would be the city’s political development. But it should be revisited in the future.

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Israel-Gaza war

My Take | China speaks for conscience of the world at UN over horror in Gaza

Disgraceful veto of draft ceasefire resolution by US coincides with arrest warrants by International Criminal Court for Israeli pair on war crimes.

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My Take | Did Biden manage to contain China?

From a US perspective, the outgoing president and his foreign policy team did surprisingly well. But without a supportive successor – or rather with an actively hostile one – their work is likely to come undone.

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US President Joe Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru, on November 16, 2024. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong politics

My Take | Why the so-called 35+ plot was an attempted constitutional coup

It was no accident that a law expert specialising in various charters had convinced fellow ‘Hong Kong 47’ conspirators to trigger legislative crisis.

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India

My Take | America, not China, stands in the way of India becoming a great power

Washington makes no room for New Delhi’s geopolitical ambitions but considers the Asian giant as just another asset in its Beijing containment strategy.

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US-China relations

My Take | Is China ready to lead the way on fighting climate change after Trump’s return?

Beijing is under pressure to fill the leadership vacuum, but the world’s largest carbon emitter is resisting calls to provide more funding.

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China now produces more emissions that the US and EU combined. Photo: Getty Images
Canada

My Take | My bucket list tribute to Anglo-American culture

There is much to admire about the most dynamic society of the past 500 years, just not necessarily the kinds of things that have most mesmerised many Hongkongers.

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Karl Marx spent plenty of time in the British Museum’s Reading Room during his years in London. Photo: Xinhua

My Take | US arrogance and ignorance on full display over Hong Kong

In our city, or as in much of the rest of the world, American officials can’t hear anything other than how awesome they sound when they speak.

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Climate change

My Take | Warming world can hope for best, but prepare for worst with Trump

Cold fact is the cavalry is not coming and the US is likely, once again, to be on the sidelines in critical fight embraced by China against climate change.

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My Take | The pace of EU vassalisation quickens under Trump

Von der Leyen, Kallas and Baerbock have all got the new memo from Washington and are now busy doing the yellow-haired lord’s bidding.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Photo: EPA-EFE
United States

My Take | Trump machine gun has the US enemy No 1 China in crosshairs

Having hardliners Marco Rubio as secretary of state and Mike Waltz as national security adviser is like putting Al Capone in charge of the FBI.

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Florida Senator Marco Rubio stands on stage with former president Donald Trump in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Photo: TNS
United States

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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US-China relations

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

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s visions share some similarities, but the latter’s goals need not make Beijing’s worst nightmares come true.

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Israel

My Take | Western values, what Western values?

The death and displacement of millions of Muslims in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen mean little. But if they are Muslims in Xinjiang, suddenly, their lives take on phenomenal value – propaganda value.

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A Palestinian man searches amid the rubble of a house levelled in an Israeli strike in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on November 10, 2024. Photo: AFP

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 presidential election 2024

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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United States

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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President-elect Donald Trump is seen at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center in Florida on November 6. Photo: AP

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
United States

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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Taiwan

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
Hong Kong politics

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
United States

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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United States

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
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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