Western culture is being sanitised, as supposedly sexist and racist contents are ‘cancelled’ to make the arts safe for the overly sensitive
In a conflict involving two nuclear powers, Taiwan will never have ‘a war of independence’, just one of extinction that the US will gladly risk.
Ana Belén Montes is a traitor so far as America is concerned, just like Edward Snowden is. But to the rest of the world, they are heroes for exposing their own government’s crimes and malevolence
From gender transition to hard drugs and ending it all, this is the place to be as long as you don’t drink too much and mind the slippery slope.
The Ukraine crisis has resurrected 19th-century imperialism and 20th-century Cold War, with an evermore powerful China thrown into the combustive mix.
Fear and paranoia have to be drummed into the public, at least those in the West but especially the United States, all the time and everywhere, as part of an all-of-government strategy in Washington
As Britain’s society and its economy sink fast, BN(O) passport holders may want to stay put rather than risk having their lives turned upside down
US government functionaries and their hard-right media pundits should stop interfering with the course of justice in Hong Kong.
The famous allegory of the cave is really about the impossibility of escape, and there is no red pill, only the blue one
Only a former Australian PM could get away with an article in a country with its health service on brink of collapse and poverty taking heavy toll.
Both the UK and China have likely breached the Joint Declaration. As the treaty has no enforcement or dispute provisions, they should suspend it under international law once and for all.
His democratic reform before 1997 – well-intentioned if impulsive and poorly thought-out – was ultimately superseded by local reforms that were far more democratic and sanctioned by Beijing.
Anything that involves real talent on the social media platform attracts few viewers, while those that require zero talent will get millions.
They are far from perfect, but ambulance wait times are nothing to complain about compared to those in Britain, and unlike in the US its police do not have rising kill tolls
Beijing has neither sent in tanks nor invaded Taiwan, but it has done a Covid U-turn, reached out to neighbours and opened again for business.
The West may learn from the periods of Spring and Autumn and the Warring States, which were China’s ‘postmodern’ age and to which the ancient sage provided the answer.
Stabbing to death of former Hong Kong man underlines the grim reality for ethnic Chinese immigrant families, who long thought they were immune from such misery.
While political speech is heavily censored in China, everyday social speech is now curtailed by pervasive taboos in Anglo-American societies.
National character once exemplified by ‘keep calm and carry on’ now one of whining and whinging universally encouraged by social media.
Unlike medical reporters who know their subject well, correspondents inevitably link China politics to a health system they know little about.
Not only are our actions and beliefs gender-normed, but also our perceptions of dirty dishes and an empty fridge are so conditioned.
The abundance of scientific and technological riches enabled the West to share its intellectual wealth with the rest of the world, but as they become scarce, nations must compete, here as elsewhere.
The island shows true face with proposed “nine don’ts” list, released in error by immigration agency prohibiting campaigning, employment and media interviews for people from Hong Kong and Macau.
With Western ‘unity’ enabled by Iran’s nuclear scheme and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China must not oblige with ruinous cross-strait war.
The psychologist has been forced to retire prematurely from the University of Toronto and faces disqualification from the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
Disclosures by Joseph Lau of loves, hates and pet peeves of his life are funnier than most comedies and more salacious than worst tabloids.
The real question is whether the ‘greatest’ British prime minister could look beyond his racism in dealing with other peoples and making rational judgments in such situations.
Twitter files released by Elon Musk implicating US government agencies in censorship, disinformation, private data breaches and psychological warfare show a level of compliance by the social media giant and its American peers that could not be relied on with the Chinese-owned TikTok.
Her groundbreaking fashion turned jobless youths and social rejects into avant-garde rebels, and fetishists and perverts into (self-)liberators.
When two alphas are in the same room, they will fight. No one will argue that the US is a long-time alpha, but is China really the new wannabe?
The Kremlin has hit upon a science-based, morale-boosting scheme for its soldiers fighting in Ukraine – a free service to preserve their sperm. But it’s more hype for the male psyche than a realistic child-bearing option for the women left behind.
British PM Rishi Sunak blundered on meeting a homeless man while John Lee posed an extraordinary question at a business about to fold.
The Lee administration should let prices find their own floor so the young and the less well-off have a better chance at home ownership.
From Iraq to Ukraine (and the Middle East to Europe), the world today would have been a much better and more peaceful place if his successors, especially his son, had followed Bush Snr’s diplomacy and its underlying rationale.