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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.
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.
Areas of Expertise:
Hong Kong politics, society and economyLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
The so-called silicon shield is bust as there will not be much left of the island to defend after the forced relocation of a significant chunk of industrial base under new tariff deal.
By exposing governance abuses and holding listed companies to account, the shareholder rights activist helped clean up the city’s investment environment.
International competition will be won by nations with steady and realistic policies guided by a vision, not the ones indulging in cowboy militarism.
Europe’s leaders continue to play supplicants to Trump, who may be an even bigger existential threat than Putin with his undisguised US imperialism.
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Far from deterring China and Russia, the operation signals that brute force, not international law, now defines American action.
The eerie return of the 19th century foreign policy doctrine indicates a declining empire seeking to consolidate power in its own backyard.
China’s consensual approach and win-win multilateralism will, in the long run, prevail in Latin America over US militant bullying.
Modern biology reveals a real miracle: how broken pieces of molecules evolved into a species that became conscious of its own genetic make-up.
A general election won’t end the country’s brutal civil war, but regional coordination by key neighbouring countries without Western interference might.
China follows a different system, but perhaps America should look into why the richest Chinese do not pose a problem similar to those in the US.
A degraded government in Washington today is a far cry from its once-feared global leadership.
The US is playing down global warming and pushing its oil and gas on the world while China is helping others to adopt renewables.
From Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans to contemporary liberals and “woke” ideologues, the West has a long tradition of trying to cancel the season.
Mutual economic destruction or worse for China and the West should be enough to deter everyone from internationalising the Taiwan question.
The end of history is more history, as Hegel might have said, with the postmodern unified EU potentially reverting back to rival modern states.
From Ukraine to the Caribbean and Middle East, we are witnessing the application of the law of the jungle by the West and its ally.
Capricious political leaders like Donald Trump and his defence chief may be more dangerous than responsible and battle-tested generals.
Unless the two superpowers reach a long-term solution to trade tensions, smaller companies and economies will get caught in the crossfire.
“Strategic ambiguity” over the island used to be a benign doctrine, but now it is becoming as dangerous as what US hawks have called “strategic clarity”.
There has been an unhelpful propensity to view the fire and its aftermath through the lens of a Western version of democracy.
Lee Tien-ming, who died last week, wrote for the curious and critical reader rather than fellow academics, and local literary fans embraced him.
The community badly needs answers from the government but spreading conspiracy theories and scapegoating will not help. All of Hong Kong now needs to mourn and work together to rebuild.
History has shown that when real estate bubbles burst, the economic damage is usually severe and prolonged.
While science still disagrees on whether humanity lives in a simulation, philosophy has yet to rule out a ‘cosmic host’.
Beijing rarely claims altruism. It always wants something from you, but most of the time, its approach is pragmatic, respectful and usually beneficial.
Without denying the offensive remarks of James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA structure, some of his speculation on race does have merit.
America’s authoritarian turn didn’t start with Donald Trump and has been decades in the making.
Japan can protect its security and national interest by peaceful means rather than going down a belligerent path.
Legislators must combine an international perspective with an understanding of the city’s social and political realities.
