‘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.
In tiresome call that sounds more absurd as time goes on, American diplomat keeps demanding that Beijing talks Moscow into ending the conflict.
In a year full of elections, clan-dominated politics has shown the innate authoritarian streak in many democracies.
Hong Kong and Uygur groups make noise, then pull out of official inquiry by special commission in Ottawa looking into foreign electoral interference.
Putin and Xi think their countries need ‘manly men’, racial unity is a strength, and ‘wokeism’ is destroying the West. A pioneering decade-old Pentagon study agrees with them.
China’s contrasting political repression and economic development in Tibet and Xinjiang does not hold a candle to US-sponsored state terrorism by Israel against the Palestinian people.
Different treatments of Alexei Navalny and Gonzalo Lira by mainstream media and governments a glimpse into how Western propaganda works.
‘Yellow’ and ‘blue’ Hongkongers argue over meaning of racist rant at Chinese-looking protester in the ethnic neighbourhood of Richmond.
When it comes to its own survival, Beijing is probably a better student of the two perennial philosophers of war than Washington and Brussels.
Now we know how racial mass murders are committed by watching one live on our computer and TV screens.
The status of the city as an outpost of the imperial West, and as a wedge against mainland China after 1997, has come to an end. Its bright future is to be another Chinese city, but not just.