The Biden administration’s moves against Chinese steel, aluminium, maritime logistics, shipbuilding and even Japan’s Nippon Steel appear well-timed to court union voters.
Contrary to a popular viral clip, newly elected Senegalese president did not tell Paris to go away, but he may as well have with PM appointment.
During its long history, Chinese dynasties were as often the victims of outside aggression as they were invaders of foreign land.
The new blockbuster film by director Alex Garland offers food for thought on the views of one of America’s founding fathers on federalism and gun rights.
The island’s ‘silicon shield’ is being systematically taken down by Washington in preparation for a Ukraine-style proxy war.
The political dynasty and Washington go way back and the breach of an undisclosed deal with Beijing explains a lot about the Spratlys stand-off.
Latest cancellation by University of Cologne of prestigious visiting professorship of Nancy Fraser, one of the world’s foremost philosophers, is just tip of the iceberg, according to Hans-Georg Moeller.
Beijing is probably less interested than UK tabloids in the sexual proclivities of members of parliament and health status of royals.
New survey shows Asean member states neither want China to threaten their security, nor the US to undermine their hard-won prosperity.
Continent’s leaders are pushing back against Western pressure and tilt increasingly towards Beijing.
China will reap the benefits but its heavily subsidised electric cars and solar panels will also help the world transition to low-emission status.
State Department’s No 2 now admits Aukus joint submarine project between three of the Five Eyes is tied to Taiwan and mainland China.
From America to the Middle East, the Bible and a famous scientist predict end times are here.
Vilified by the ruling DPP, the current trip to the mainland by former Taiwan leader shows courage of convictions to unify under ‘one China’.
In a recent debate between two famous public intellectuals, Kishore Mahbubani and Orville Schell, it’s clear which one talked the most sense.
Philosopher Xiang Shuchen talks to My Take columnist Alex Lo about her new book, which argues premodern China had no conception of biologically determined races, only a culture of mutual assimilation that may serve as a template for contemporary cosmopolitanism.
Israel’s democracy is no barrier to genocide, just like the historic Anglo-American colonialism in the US, Canada and Australia.
Enticed by the country’s global image, many immigrants - including some Hongkongers - are finding realities on the ground very different.
Chinese infrastructure builders are leaving and US spies, soldiers and corporate America are returning with the new government in Buenos Aires.
When the world’s biggest economies are in the doldrums and their governments are at loggerheads, we are all much worse off.
The profound questions he raised and provoked 100 years ago about China and its people during his tumultuous visit may be even more relevant today than ever before.
Unlike previously successful empires including the British imperial state, debt and deficit – rather than economic and productive might – drive the present-day US empire instead of its decline.
After the battles over 5G, social media and advanced microchips, Chinese electric cars are the new front line of US economic warfare.
New security and public order laws that have gone into effect in the UK are arguably even more draconian than what was just passed in Hong Kong.
US Senator Bernie Sanders has called for a “revolution” in American foreign policy to be based on humanitarianism, not militarism; it’s an admirable pipe dream.
Hostile powers will exploit new law to distract from crimes they are committing or helping commit in the name of freedom and democracy, but the city is strong enough to fight back.
Stationing elite US troops like Green Berets barely 5km from southeastern coast of mainland China is direct provocation, not an attempt to preserve status quo in Taiwan Strait.
‘Unfree’ Hong Kong people should be grateful their police still respond to their complaints and calls, while keeping their streets safe.
Ex-president’s clandestine influence operation revealed by Reuters was just a small cog in a gigantic and pervasive US propaganda machine.
