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Alex Lo
Columnist
Alex Lo has been an SCMP 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 an SCMP 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
Dealing with Beijing offers countries such as Canada and India more leverage with the US in addition to economic benefits.
Recent findings by archaeologists suggest the push for innovative solutions is often borne out of the struggle to overcome severe challenges.
Young Westerners embracing Chinese habits and culture started as a meme. But under it is a serious political signal.
Amid the pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and the cutthroat competition of academia, junior researchers are finding novel ways to express their discontent.
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Essays from over a decade ago show that America’s institutional decay and populist revolt predate the current US president’s rise to power.
The United States’ anti-communist containment strategy dates back to its occupation of Japan and shortly after its decolonisation of the Philippines. This strategy is today more active than ever.
Trump, Putin and Netanyahu have all gone to war to prove how strong and powerful they are. The results should give any strongman pause.
New studies of the centuries-old Confucian order in East Asia show the country is, more than ever, committed to stability and peace.
US curbs on China’s access to top chips forces it to work smarter and better. Claims of stealing and cheating stem from ignorance and arrogance.
There’s a lesson for the US president in Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in the early 19th century.
While Washington slashes funding for the sciences, Beijing is clinching its lead in everything from patent applications to publications.
China is leading the world to make the transition but Washington is stalling under a president whose energy motto is ‘drill, baby, drill’.
As China continues to thrive, Western observers are beginning to rethink past assumptions about the country’s future.
After waging a war on the pretext of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the US and Israel have ignited a new arms race.
Denying war guilt and remilitarisation are but two sides of the same ideological coin for the Japanese far right.
Given its depth and wide reach, it would take a lot to dethrone the King Dollar even if Washington is run by imbeciles. But sanctioned countries like Iran, which must work around the system, may eventually be seen as pioneers in a post-dollar world.
As Japan expands its defence posture with the backing of major allies, its leaders seek to portray Beijing’s objections as an overreaction.
The popular social media platform, once owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, has been turned into an AI-enabled exploitation and censorship machine.
Beijing and Taiwan’s opposition KMT want to foster cross-strait interdependence but DPP offers only isolation and endless confrontation.
Scholar Daniel A. Bell has written an entertaining new book, exposing a new generation to ancient Chinese wisdom on the issues of our day.
Like every advancing society in the past, it sees the future by seizing new energy sources and their associated technologies.
The emerging partnership enables Vietnam to preserve diplomatic flexibility and advance economic diversification in the face of US pressure.
Instead of betting the ranch on an ever more unreliable Washington, like William Lai, Cheng Li-wun is wisely reaching out to mainland China.
Countering US imperialism and Israeli state terrorism should now be an imperative for the entire international community.
While some economists draw parallels with Japan’s ‘lost decade’, others note key differences when it comes to China’s sluggish recovery.
The US president and America are starting to understand you can’t go fascist at home and imperialist abroad halfway.
The United States has spent trillions of dollars on foreign wars, thanks in large part to the largesse of countries around the world that are willing to fund its ever-ballooning debt.
In contrast to friendly China, the United States has weaponised foreign aid on one continent and returned to gunboat diplomacy in the western hemisphere.
The war in Iran is speeding the world towards a multipolar system.
