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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.
New Cornell University study finds farmland ownership by adversary states – China, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and Russia – collectively accounts for only 1 per cent of all the foreign-owned agricultural land in the US.
US secretary of state’s cringeworthy performance of satirical song by Neil Young on Kyiv visit an unintended reflection of situation today.
Some of the most respected publications in Britain and America have resorted to obscure legal grammar such as the use of commas to justify killing children ‘legally’ in Palestine.
Compared to the pragmatic tone from Taiwan’s new leader, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un presents a far more potent security threat for Beijing.
The island’s current political status is as good as it gets, and any further military partnership with Washington will deliver only diminishing returns.
Washington seems intent on destroying international law as it stands with Israel, which is under a cloud of genocide charges and arrest warrants.
Mega events will help draw people here. But efforts must also be made to reach out to Western critics rather than bombarding them with rhetoric.
London warns Beijing is planning ‘lethal aid’ for Russia in the Ukraine war, but says it has no idea how many weapons it has sold to Israel.
In the old days, those who resisted empire and colonialism were called savages and barbarians, all the better to enslave and murder them and their families and steal their lands. Things haven’t changed much, only different words are used.
The new Taiwan leader does not hide his separatist tendencies, which necessarily require American military support and undermine security.
In applying for arrest warrants for top leaders of Israel and Hamas, Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court has stood up for global justice and international law against the manipulated so-called rules-based order.
Following summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the two sides vow to take on Washington’s ‘dual containment’ policy aimed at Russia and China. But a quasi-alliance with Moscow is hardly the recipe for Beijing to make more friends.
The fateful relationship between America and Israel is not only a threat to stability in the Middle East, but also the rest of the world.
The UK government and London police may be telling the truth, but do not assume Western officials never manipulate or lie about spy intrigue.
When it comes to Washington-Beijing rivalry, a few Americans learned the right lesson from history but the rest do not know what the lesson is.
While Congressional-Executive Commission on China has weaponised human and labour rights, Beijing should reciprocate by sanctioning America for widespread abuse and exploitation of prison labour.
Senior US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham cites Hiroshima and Nagasaki as examples of why Israel must be allowed to do whatever it takes in the already devastated Palestinian territory.
Anti-vaxxers and jab proponents push warring narratives, making rational discussions about medical benefits and risks difficult. But the best time for candour and intensive research is now – before another pandemic hits.
Chinese cities are rushing to dismantle a long-standing housing policy regime designed to keep speculators at bay, a remarkable U-turn that is just the beginning of a new chapter in the nation’s real estate market.
Billionaire investors think just because they make massive donations to universities they can engineer the academic equivalent of corporate takeovers and board ousters.
American elites are squandering the country’s global standing and political capital defending the indefensible with Israel’s genocidal war.
If the national security law is not a sufficient deterrent, it is doubtful the threat of civil contempt proceedings will have offenders quivering.
The complaint by Canberra about the latest Chinese military flare-up close to China’s coast is not only hypocritical but highly escalatory.
As in Hong Kong in 2019, the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy has fingerprints all over protests in Tbilisi.
Note from 12 Republican senators threatens court’s chief prosecutor, family and associates with sanctions in bid to protect Israeli leaders.
Deadly highway collapse and tornado in storm-battered Guangdong province serve as reminders of importance of predicting and preparing for weather disasters.
Foreign Minister Diana Mondino said ‘Chinese people are all the same’ after her Beijing visit; it’s unclear what she meant by it.
A space station in Argentina, the Hambantota port in Sri Lanka and a naval base in Djibouti are just some examples of half-truths and scaremongering told about “the China threat”.
By issuing arrest warrants for leaders of both sides involved in the current carnage in Gaza, the ICC will restore its international prestige.