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.
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.
Embarrassing congressional testimony by the Canadian self-help guru Jordan Peterson may have been better directed at US rather than China.
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.
Decline and fall of social democracy in the UK and Canada has a lot to do with shrinking medical services and worsening outcomes for the people.
The British Empire pioneered weaponising the global economy, a strategy now deployed with near reckless abandon by its successor, the American empire.
US chip war not only restricts access to most advanced semiconductors, but also aims to undermine China’s approach to hi-tech development.
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.
Both Beijing and the West will cherry-pick and distort the numbers as their rivalry escalates, so we all need to remain mindful and alert.
Both in terms of magnitude and similarity, mass killings in Gaza are closer to forgotten German slaughter against the Herero and Nama.
The ‘Christian nation’ envisioned by Republican Senator Josh Hawley and his coreligionists mirrors the totalising ideal of Islamic State.
Consulting giant McKinsey slammed by US senator for advising Beijing on raising consumption, improving healthcare and developing new tech.
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.
Top American diplomat said a mouthful when he wheeled out the adage about being ‘on the menu’ if you are not at the table as a dining guest.