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Alex Lo
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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.
As with Napoleon’s blockade of Britain under the Continental System, American economic and tech wars have already led China to innovate.
Trump wants to take the world’s largest island to ‘new heights’. It’s already much better off compared with US overseas territories and associated states.
Both countries want to cut deals with the US president, but know they must go all out to deny the White House bully a cheap and easy win.
The significance of Trump’s tariffs is that they have destroyed the credibility of America on which its global alliances have long depended.
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Penguins, seals and seabirds have not been spared in America’s global trade war, likewise territories with significant US or allied military assets.
Washington has neither moral nor legal standing to punish top officials, from the secretary for justice to a now retired commissioner of police.
US-China ties have dominated the 21st century so far, but pact between Moscow and Beijing may be the most consequential from now on.
Since the Tiananmen crackdown, a generation of mainland public intellectuals and scholars have turned classical study on its head.
Antisemitism is a heinous form of racism, but the most pressing moral question of our time is whether Palestinians still have the right to exist.
The Taiwanese leader is ready to abuse both the island’s constitution and anti-infiltration law to challenge what is Beijing’s ultimate red line.
Europe is breaking away from America, and an Anglosphere may finally emerge from the US shadow out of necessity and self-preservation.
In his relations with other nations, the US president exhibits the same pattern of abuse of power as his alleged treatment of women.
Former Philippine president’s detention made possible by local rivalry, but a similar fate for Putin and Netanyahu will not happen any time soon, if ever.
As Trump pick for top defence post has second thoughts on deal for Aukus submarines, Canberra should mend fences with Beijing, Paris.
Mark Carney of the ruling Liberal Party certainly talks tough with Washington, but he cannot afford to be over-friendly with Beijing.
White House brings ‘budgetary chaos with extraordinary speed’, potentially triggering a fiscal crisis and run on US Treasuries market.
At least Beijing only retaliates economically but will never threaten Canada’s sovereignty and territorial integrity like America is doing.
US president’s Panama Canal move, while having made a lot of money for HK tycoon, is more like misdirected fire than a win over Beijing.
Internet speculation may be off the mark, but his tilt towards Moscow will enable Putin to prevail over Europe and regain leverage over China.
As the island is now even more exposed to America’s unreliability, it is time to test Beijing’s sincerity by switching to a diplomatic approach.
From threatening other nations to bulldozing state power at home, America should take care of its own mess before messing with others.
China has pivoted on advanced manufacturing processes to encourage incremental innovations rather than flashy breakthroughs.
Those of us may find it hard to deal with the country’s acceptance of drug use, multiple gender identities and highly accessible euthanasia.
Charles Kindleberger long ago argued for the opposite of the Thucydides trap and taught generations of investors about market bubbles.
Under the guise of foreign aid, the agency has long carried out influence operations much like the National Endowment for Democracy and others.
The world has become multipolar but European leaders are behaving more like hapless bipolar patients and have no one but themselves to blame.
Common damage to underwater infrastructure has been weaponised by Nato states and Taiwan in information warfare against mainland China.
He is completing the final destruction of the very ideals of Roosevelt’s New Deal and fulfilling Nixon’s perks without obligations to the world.
Balance between Russia, China and America looks set to replace European Atlanticism and US hegemony, and it’s not a bad thing.
