Advertisement
Alex Lo
Columnist
Alex Lo has been an SCMP 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.
Alex Lo has been an SCMP 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.
Areas of Expertise:
Hong Kong politics, society and economyLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
New studies of the centuries-old Confucian order in East Asia show the country is, more than ever, committed to stability and peace.
US curbs on China’s access to top chips forces it to work smarter and better. Claims of stealing and cheating stem from ignorance and arrogance.
There’s a lesson for the US president in Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in the early 19th century.
While Washington slashes funding for the sciences, Beijing is clinching its lead in everything from patent applications to publications.
Advertisement
China is leading the world to make the transition but Washington is stalling under a president whose energy motto is ‘drill, baby, drill’.
As China continues to thrive, Western observers are beginning to rethink past assumptions about the country’s future.
After waging a war on the pretext of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the US and Israel have ignited a new arms race.
Denying war guilt and remilitarisation are but two sides of the same ideological coin for the Japanese far right.
Given its depth and wide reach, it would take a lot to dethrone the King Dollar even if Washington is run by imbeciles. But sanctioned countries like Iran, which must work around the system, may eventually be seen as pioneers in a post-dollar world.
As Japan expands its defence posture with the backing of major allies, its leaders seek to portray Beijing’s objections as an overreaction.
The popular social media platform, once owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, has been turned into an AI-enabled exploitation and censorship machine.
Beijing and Taiwan’s opposition KMT want to foster cross-strait interdependence but DPP offers only isolation and endless confrontation.
Scholar Daniel A. Bell has written an entertaining new book, exposing a new generation to ancient Chinese wisdom on the issues of our day.
Like every advancing society in the past, it sees the future by seizing new energy sources and their associated technologies.
The emerging partnership enables Vietnam to preserve diplomatic flexibility and advance economic diversification in the face of US pressure.
Instead of betting the ranch on an ever more unreliable Washington, like William Lai, Cheng Li-wun is wisely reaching out to mainland China.
Countering US imperialism and Israeli state terrorism should now be an imperative for the entire international community.
While some economists draw parallels with Japan’s ‘lost decade’, others note key differences when it comes to China’s sluggish recovery.
The US president and America are starting to understand you can’t go fascist at home and imperialist abroad halfway.
The United States has spent trillions of dollars on foreign wars, thanks in large part to the largesse of countries around the world that are willing to fund its ever-ballooning debt.
In contrast to friendly China, the United States has weaponised foreign aid on one continent and returned to gunboat diplomacy in the western hemisphere.
The war in Iran is speeding the world towards a multipolar system.
By insisting on the superiority of its own standards of judgment and experience, the West distorts the realities of other societies.
Countries across the world will be wise to hedge their bets with Beijing as the war exposes US security ‘guarantees’ as burdens and liabilities for allies.
Although the ancient text Guiguzi may not be widely read, its contents remain a prescient guide for job interviews, marketing and even diplomacy.
Trump doesn’t care what is true about the war in the Middle East or anything else so long as what he says serves his purpose for the moment.
Beijing aims at tech diffusion and minimising social disruptions, rather than competing for supremacy with the United States.
To restore peace and stability in the Middle East, Israel and the US – the real destabilisers of the region – need to be countered.
The release of an authoritative translation of Kongzi Jia Yu finally places a once-suspected forgery among the traditional canon.
