My Take by Alex Lo

Dictatorship and democracy together cook up a pandemic

Thanks to their respective political systems, authoritarian China and Western democracies complement one another – one in causing an outbreak, the other in enabling its global spread

Alex Lo

Published: 8:56pm, 15 Mar, 2020

Updated: 10:12pm, 15 Mar, 2020

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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.