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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
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.
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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.
Under Trudeau, Canada had nasty relations with China and India. Thanks to Trump, the new Canadian administration is pivoting to Asia.
Much of UK media and academia have helped manufacture spurious claims about Xinjiang while denying real monstrous crimes elsewhere that many of them sponsor or otherwise justify.
Years before Washington would target Beijing’s tech industry, the Chinese leader unleashed the country’s scientific potential.
The revamped electoral system is designed to attract patriotic but also professional people to Legco. Beijing has zero reason to interfere with the coming election.
If Hong Kong people can remove their colonial blinds, they would be able to see the economic detritus left around the world by Western ideology.
In the face of China’s rare earth export controls, the US is desperate for alternatives to keep its advanced weapons systems modern and mobile.
After staging a remarkable political comeback in the 2000s, she has earned respect for her dedication and policy experience that few can match.
Apart from persistently high state subsidies, labour exploitation, human trafficking and crime cartels also plague US agriculture and are reasons enough for Beijing to sanction the industry.
While some have already written off the company behind the viral collectible, all is not lost for Pop Mart if it can go beyond ‘blind box’ retailing.
It’s hard to tell who will ultimately win the tech race but this year’s Nobel economics prize gives us some clues.
Whether it’s the Antichrist, the eugenic need to propagate smart babies to colonise Mars, or Cold War rhetoric against China, they are imposing eccentric and often dangerous ideas on the public.
Washington blames Beijing for being unreliable but, for Chinese policymakers, export controls are merely a response to US trade provocations.
Winner Maria Corina Machado can be held up as a poster child of American militarism against her own country, Venezuela, and across Latin America.
China has mistakenly thought the European Union could play a greater and more independent role in world affairs, not necessarily to tilt towards Beijing but to stop being a lapdog to Washington.
China’s ruling model may be the only remedy for what the political writer argues is the erosion of free speech and free elections by media-controlling plutocrats.
Security services such as London’s MI5 and Ottawa’s RCMP appear to be going after individuals and organisations out of pure antagonism and distrust against Beijing rather than having actual evidence.
The times when the US could manipulate opposition figures to destabilise governments in East Asia are long gone. How disappointing that all that investment has gone to waste.
In the mid-20th century, the esteemed mathematician found troubling contradictions within one of the United States’ founding documents.
The US once went after a media empire to contain its influence on a key demographic, a motive which may explain Washington’s TikTok deal.
