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My Take, a popular and sometimes controversial daily column of the South China Morning Post, analyses a variety of hot-button issues concerning Hong Kong, mainland China and the region.
Russia and China are driven together by the US, which is breaking laws, undermining its national interests and foreign policy – all for Israel.
Like the previous Vietnam generation of baby boomers, US university students are waking up to the atrocities their government commits or helps its client states to commit around the world.
Trite tropes, metaphors and analogies used to describe what is going on may be more misleading and dangerous than apt or enlightening.
If Western politicians are right, Beijing is behind the student protests in the US, responsible for preventing a British MP from visiting Djibouti and ‘fuelling the largest armed conflict in Europe since WWII’.
Xi Jinping’s recent meeting with Antony Blinken offers glimpses of how Beijing is positioning for another Trump presidency.
From “liberal” euthanasia to transgender treatment and prison policy, the country is experimenting with its citizens’ lives.
The world would be a better place if US politicians exercised the same conscientiousness over Palestine as they have over the Chinese autonomous region.
Official use of blunt propaganda and well-worn phrases does nothing for city’s cause, but return to reasoned argument may be on the way.
Israel’s war on Gaza, rather than China, is the real drive behind Biden’s ‘ban or sell’ law because young US app users tend to be pro-Palestinian.
Hawkish Australian Strategic Policy Institute, whose chief complains about being targeted by state-backed hackers, is prone to exaggerating the ‘China threat’.
If China has been committing genocide in Xinjiang, then what do we call what Israel and the United States are doing to the people of Palestine?
China views the issue as an ‘American problem’ but can help Washington out by stopped the flow of precursors to Mexican drug cartels
If we use waiting times as the key measure of efficient and timely delivery of treatment, Canadian taxpayers have been steadily getting declining healthcare since the 1990s.
China officially connected to the internet in April 1994. Today, its online influence is stronger than ever.
Digging through layers of Western historical and scholarly assumptions, a new book by a young philosopher has resurrected a forgotten Chinese cosmopolitanism that may yet guide the country’s future.
Country’s revered universal health service starting to show signs of a universal lack of service for those citizens who are most in need.
The government response to a ruling on gender changes on ID cards for transgender people has requirements at the strict end of the spectrum.
As the poorest member of Asean grapples with a 50% poverty rate, helping a regional nation in trouble is not foreign interference.
The Biden administration’s moves against Chinese steel, aluminium, maritime logistics, shipbuilding and even Japan’s Nippon Steel appear well-timed to court union voters.
Contrary to a popular viral clip, newly elected Senegalese president did not tell Paris to go away, but he may as well have with PM appointment.
During its long history, Chinese dynasties were as often the victims of outside aggression as they were invaders of foreign land.
The new blockbuster film by director Alex Garland offers food for thought on the views of one of America’s founding fathers on federalism and gun rights.
The island’s ‘silicon shield’ is being systematically taken down by Washington in preparation for a Ukraine-style proxy war.
The political dynasty and Washington go way back and the breach of an undisclosed deal with Beijing explains a lot about the Spratlys stand-off.
Latest cancellation by University of Cologne of prestigious visiting professorship of Nancy Fraser, one of the world’s foremost philosophers, is just tip of the iceberg, according to Hans-Georg Moeller.
Beijing is probably less interested than UK tabloids in the sexual proclivities of members of parliament and health status of royals.
New survey shows Asean member states neither want China to threaten their security, nor the US to undermine their hard-won prosperity.
Leaders of the Philippines, US and Japan will meet this week for an unprecedented summit in Washington.
Continent’s leaders are pushing back against Western pressure and tilt increasingly towards Beijing.