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Alex Lo
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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.
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 West’s unspoken assumption is that Asians cannot be trusted to manage their own affairs, at least when Western interests are involved.
The toxic fungus may be a legitimate research subject, but they have handed Washington the perfect excuse to hype up the China threat.
Far from being afraid, Hongkongers now do what sensible people would have done long ago – dine, shop and play on the mainland.
Ally or not, no one with a decent sense of self-preservation can afford to take a security guarantee by the United States at face value nowadays.
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Based on the latest data, experts argue that job losses in some parts of the US economy have been more than made up for in other areas.
As the chip war rages, Chinese firms and institutes have had a boost in state support while their counterparts face crackdowns and restrictions.
By aligning with the US and annoying the mainland, Taipei under the DPP has sacrificed future prosperity and security for little or nothing.
Rounds of Western criticism are little more than a slap on the wrist for Israel when the latter’s genocidal intent in Gaza can no longer be ignored.
The superpowers’ rivalry is not so much about competing social-economic systems, but two different versions of capitalism.
Hong Kong and the mainland are among those hoping to lure refugees from Harvard and other top universities scared away by Trump crackdown.
US president tries to confront South African counterpart in Oval Office with unsubstantiated allegations of atrocities against white farmers.
However, Beijing’s foreign policy and economic agenda are at cross purposes, with nations in the bloc suffering from chronic trade deficits.
Revelations of Biden’s mental decline and advanced prostate cancer latest example of White House dishonesty based on the constitution.
As it targets the city’s judiciary, the US has paralysed the work of the ICC while planning for the ethnic cleansing and displacement of Gazans.
After a rocky intellectual and emotional journey of almost a decade on my dirty couch, I have decided to let it go for a hi-tech massage capsule.
Weakening the dollar to rebuild domestic manufacturing and exports is a pipe dream, but that will not stop ‘brains’ behind tariffs from trying.
Trump will probably sign some modest deals, and maybe with Beijing, but it could have been done without threatening to destroy world trade.
By enabling Israel to unleash its genocidal impulse, most leaders of developed nations have crossed a moral red line that cannot be undone.
Separation threat to Canada from resource-rich province comes when unity and wealth needed to protect against global dangers and Trump.
Rather than left or right-leaning political parties, citizens in Singapore, Australia and Canada chose ‘steady hands’ to navigate geopolitical turbulence.
If attack on alliance member is one against all, what happens now he has refused to rule out aggression to annex Canada and Greenland?
Suggestions that the former Catholic leader should ‘defect’ to the Vatican fail to take into account the political realities of both cities.
Trade wars, like real wars, are an implicit bargaining tool before the start of formal negotiations.
Mainstream reporting targets illiberal regimes in Europe, but favours the island leader and his pro-US, independence-seeking government.
Winning a full-term premiership is the easy part for Mark Carney, who must now lead a country squeezed between two rival superpowers.
Not long ago, not far away, another powerful country resorted to tariffs to beat up the world, ending in mutual destruction.
Far from being the guarantor of global liberty, prosperity and security, America has become a threat to all three pillars of human civilisation.
Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong poses some intriguing questions about being Chinese, though his conclusions seem quite off the mark.
Three Chinese economists argue rigid growth target causes local governments to misallocate resources and take on excessive debt.
