The government and ‘patriotic’ politicians should wow voters with results and rewards, not intimidate them with more laws.

US ‘war on terror’ has been a series of crimes against humanity and a complete disaster for the world.

When Washington goes into overdrive over human rights, it’s a sure sign that it is about to violate a lot more of them.

When it comes to enlarging the already mind-boggling defence budget of the United States, now set to exceed three-quarters of a trillion US dollars, the China threat is the gift that keeps on giving.

Ancient Mesopotamian finance may be far more enlightened, ethical and efficient than contemporary American financial capitalism.

Slow rate of vaccination in low-income countries using patented doses as insisted by rich countries means the world won’t achieve herd immunity for 4.6 years, new study says

Sometimes, it’s not double standards, just a classic power play by the more powerful player that is the United States.

History is not bunk, according to the philosopher, but we are too daft to learn from it.

We probably haven’t become more racist in the past two decades – unless we count local animosity against mainlanders.

Actually, it does sometimes, but not others; it’s the life-and-death difference between complete disaster and national renewal.

Such perceptual distortions happen in every polarised society as new overseas research shows the deeper the division, the more sharply people’s perceptions bifurcate; and sharing common ground becomes increasingly unlikely.

Despite the WHO’s valiant efforts, it’s difficult if not impossible to find out what really happened with Covid-19 once narratives about its origin and spread have been weaponised in a (dis)information war between the superpowers

The job has great powers while the chief executive gets all the headaches and blame.

Bystanders’ apathy – a phenomenon that was studied for a long time by psychologists following a notorious murder in 1960s New York – may be to blame for the failure of witnesses to intervene in two brutal racist attacks this week in the Big Apple.

Truthfully, the electoral overhaul is much less democratic, not more, but Beijing has no choice after the wreckage wrought in the city by the opposition and anti-government movement.

The country’s urbanisation is part of an overall historical progress and betterment of the world population and is not so different from that of the West

The EU, US and China share the same goal on global decarbonisation, so they should work together even if they fight over everything else

The mainstream liberal press thinks it’s a newfound political virtue for Joe Biden’s disappearing act but his performance at his first presidential press conference last week should give people pause

US President Joe Biden wants to stop China from being the world’s ‘leading, wealthiest, most powerful’ country. He needn’t bother.

There really are a lot more protests around the world today. For all our exceptionalism, Hong Kong has been part of a global trend.

Given how bad the relationship has become between China and the West, Beijing can take its own sweet time to resume elections in Hong Kong without worrying about international criticism.

Instead of sanctions, let’s call for a moral quid pro quo between the Americans and Chinese to end all the bad things they have done respectively in Yemen and Xinjiang.

Wiser heads in Washington would not want the Chinese communist state to collapse and cause chaos across Asia and the world economy. The best outcome for them would be a Japanese-style, decades-long stasis, which would put a stop to China’s rise

America may want to use India as part of the Asian bulwark against China, but in the process, it is inadvertently exposing its atrocities, past and present

Big Brother Washington may want to confront and contain China but many of its allies prefer better trade relations instead.

If Beijing’s electoral rollback is the stick while the push to resolve the housing problem – among other livelihood issues – is supposed to be the carrot, then most likely, Hong Kong people will end up with a heavy stick over their heads rather than a proper roof.

Britain’s latest defence and foreign policy review aimed at China and called ‘the Indo-Pacific tilt’, if enacted, will endanger everyone, especially itself.

Washington’s containment and isolation strategies are having an unmistakable effect on China’s sciencebudget, its direction and global ambitions under the latest five-year plan.

Given their close ties with the country, it would have made far more sense for India and Japan to work with China and Asean to obtain a less tragic outcome than for the US to mediate between the conflicting parties

If China and Russia are conducting vaccine diplomacy out of a cynical ploy to win international sympathy, well, the world is in dire need of such cynicism