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Alex Lo
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 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.

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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.

Bill will not only ban TikTok, but also may set precedent by not having to prove threat in targeting entity associated with ‘a foreign adversary’.

For an economy that relies so much on microchips from the low end to the most advanced, its worsening relationship with Beijing is forcing others to diversify critical supply chains and production facilities.

The danger Hong Kong faces is not that it might become ‘just another mainland city’, but that it is already subpar to many of its urban cousins across the border.

Canberra may want to rope in China’s neighbours to join its US-led coalition against Beijing, but Asian countries understand they need a far more nuanced strategy and diplomacy to survive and prosper

Failed UK premier says Article 23 security legislation threatens women and claims that Hong Kong’s female prison population is higher than Iran’s.

As early European-educated social democrats of the Israeli Labor Party have given way to the far-right, the Zionist project has turned openly colonial and biblical.

The once and probably future US president is so honest about his dishonesties and shenanigans that whatever you can accuse him of, hypocrisy is not one of them, unlike all his political opponents.

Allegedly employed as forced labourers in carmaking, cotton, aluminium, solar panels or any Chinese-run enterprise, Uygurs may have to work in indigenous craft to meet Western standards of human rights.

Mainland China is sanctioned for selling dual-use civilian materials but island supplier of key explosive for artillery shells appears to get friendly advice to redirect sales to EU.