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Alex Lo
Columnist
Alex Lo has been a Post columnist since 2012, covering major issues affecting Hong Kong and the rest of China. A journalist for 25 years, he has worked for various publications in Hong Kong and Toronto as a news reporter and editor. He has also lectured in journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
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.
The tragedy in the Middle East is that what Hamas’ Sinwar was to bin Laden, Israel is to America.
Reissued directive from the US Department of Defense clears the way for long-banned troop deployment to enforce law on domestic soil.
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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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.
With little help from allies, Ottawa keeps finding itself in diplomatic trouble by trying to play by rules that friends and foes alike ignore.
No one wants nuclear proliferation but that may be the only realistic restraint against an increasingly rogue Israel.
Mass immigration gives the US a huge advantage over everyone else facing depopulation but it’s a double-edged sword that has escalated domestic strife.
The spiky prey will prove to be a deadly meal for the snake but it also will not survive. Better to imitate the rodent that gets along with everyone.
After the 2019 unrest, and with no more politically motivated riots to distract them, students and teachers can focus on studies, research.
Netanyahu has long understood with each escalation towards – from Gaza and the West Bank, then Lebanon and now finally, the prized war against Iran – the US will capitulate bit by bit, until it has no autonomy left in the Middle East.
To appreciate the true magnitude of its disgrace, imagine the response if murdered Gazan journalist Hassan Hamad were a Uygur or a Tibetan.
No one really knows how or why a society works or doesn’t work, so don’t think you have a magic formula for it.
If the island is an integral part of China, then obviously its indigenous people are Chinese too.
Xi’s friendship with Putin comes with serious liabilities, but growing antagonism from Israel may paradoxically benefit China even more.
Most of world realises Red Sea harassment of international cargo ships is not terrorism, but a bid to stop mass killings of fellow Muslims in Gaza.
As American hegemony erodes, the old practices of balance of power and spheres of influence are making a comeback.
Launching Cold War 2.0 against a reluctant Beijing while enabling Israel to set fire to an entire region is now official American foreign policy.
Plant hallucinogen ayahuasca is all the rage among those seeking enlightenment and healing in a shallow tech milieu desperate for a quick fix and patch.
After almost lifelong support for the cause of the Palestinians, I am, in middle age, becoming numbed to their endless sufferings.
The next PM’s idea of an Asian Nato is a pipe dream but his expressed willingness to be more independent of the US should be taken seriously.
Lawmakers from Kuomintang and Taiwan People’s Party show courage in walking out on DPP’s motion, which effectively denies ‘one China’.
Russia has exposed the limits of Western power while Israel has dragged the West’s global standing through the mud. Meanwhile, a cold war with China will be a lose-lose for everyone.
Spook or not, the former diplomat detained in China over Canada’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou has shown grace and toughness that should instil pride.
Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is ‘not just regional but global’, a Western overreach that will be dangerous and destabilising.
A re-analysis of genomic data previously withheld offers strongest evidence of the natural origin of Covid-19 but doubters, conspiracists and some Western politicians are unlikely to be convinced.
Sarcasm and cynicism in the hit spy series ‘Slow Horses’ may be a truer representation about the state of the UK than what is on the BBC news.
Instead of being based on reality, the thinking in Washington is to maximise every threat, however doubtful, as long as it relates to China.
Claim by island leader that Beijing should challenge Moscow, by force if necessary, to take back lost territories is borderline infantile distraction.
Beijing should exploit the return of the Teresa Magbanua to port as an opportunity for diplomatic reset and to de-escalate Philippine tensions.
