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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.
Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte gives a speech at Chatham House, London, Monday June 9, 2025, during his visit to the UK. Photo: AP
Mark Rutte

My Take | Hey, Nato boss man, keep your hands off the Asia-Pacific region

The West’s unspoken assumption is that Asians cannot be trusted to manage their own affairs, at least when Western interests are involved.

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Mainland China

My Take | US risks soft power by alienating Chinese students

China economy

My Take | What will China look like in 2030? A forecast on the next 5-year plan

United States

My Take | What were 2 Chinese scientists who took a pathogen into the US thinking?

The toxic fungus may be a legitimate research subject, but they have handed Washington the perfect excuse to hype up the China threat.

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A 3D illustration of Fusarium fungi. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong politics

My Take | Ombudsman sets a new year zero by removing reports from website

Ensuring easy public access to carefully preserved archives allows for Hong Kong’s history – recent or distant – to be better understood.

Hong Kong politics

My Take | HK eyes open to real China after fall of Western-allied opposition

Far from being afraid, Hongkongers now do what sensible people would have done long ago – dine, shop and play on the mainland.

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Taiwan

My Take | ‘Strategic clarity’ over Taiwan is just so much American bombast

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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Soldiers lower the Taiwanese flag at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. Photo: AP
US-China trade war

Opinion | Sorry, but the ‘China shock’ was actually pretty good for America

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.

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Cryptocurrency

My Take | Hong Kong’s stablecoin ambitions offer Chinese yuan a way into the crypto world

Beijing’s tolerance of and supportive attitude towards Hong Kong’s stablecoin ambitions is interesting to observe.

China technology

My Take | Springtime for China’s engineers and scientists. In US, not so much

As the chip war rages, Chinese firms and institutes have had a boost in state support while their counterparts face crackdowns and restrictions.

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The United States last month announced a global ban on the use of advanced artificial intelligence-powered chips made by Chinese companies – the latest in a string of export curbs targeting China’s semiconductor industry. Photo: AFP
Taiwan

My Take | Taiwan’s Lai does not have the cards with Washington or Beijing

By aligning with the US and annoying the mainland, Taipei under the DPP has sacrificed future prosperity and security for little or nothing.

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Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te (right) observes an anti-landing drill inside a military base in Taiwan on May 16. Photo: EPA-EFE
Israel-Gaza war

My Take | European Union has finally shed crocodile tears for Palestinians

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.

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US-China relations

My Take | American financial exploitation vs Chinese financial repression

The superpowers’ rivalry is not so much about competing social-economic systems, but two different versions of capitalism.

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United States

My Take | US kicking out foreign students to the benefit of China and others

Hong Kong and the mainland are among those hoping to lure refugees from Harvard and other top universities scared away by Trump crackdown.

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Harvard sweatshirts are displayed for sale in a school store window on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 15, 2025. Photo: AFP
Britain

My Take | Hongkongers in the UK deserve to be supported, not let down

The British government should clarify the position of BN(O) visa holders and exclude them from the impact of a campaign to cut immigration.

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The Embankment in London is a popular for sightseers in the British capital. Photo: AFP
United States

My Take | Trump drums up a fake genocide while sponsoring real one in Gaza

US president tries to confront South African counterpart in Oval Office with unsubstantiated allegations of atrocities against white farmers.

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Asean

My Take | Closer Asean ties can help China counter US militarisation of region

However, Beijing’s foreign policy and economic agenda are at cross purposes, with nations in the bloc suffering from chronic trade deficits.

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Donald Trump

My Take | US presidents often hide the true state of their health from the public

Revelations of Biden’s mental decline and advanced prostate cancer latest example of White House dishonesty based on the constitution.

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Former US president Joe Biden. Photo: TNS
US-China relations

My Take | US should change the opioid crisis narrative if it wants China’s full support

While exerting pressure abroad, Trump should ensure resources at home that ease fentanyl crisis are not affected by his budget cuts.

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Libya

My Take | The world’s biggest rogue state looks to sanction little Hong Kong

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.

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US-China relations

My Take | Unlike Plaza Accord, Mar-a-Lago deal would speed up US decline

Weakening the dollar to rebuild domestic manufacturing and exports is a pipe dream, but that will not stop ‘brains’ behind tariffs from trying.

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Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Stephen Miran seen outside the White House in Washington, on April 16. Photo: EPA-EFE
US-China relations

My Take | China and US manage to avoid a lose-lose trade war, for time being

Trump will probably sign some modest deals, and maybe with Beijing, but it could have been done without threatening to destroy world trade.

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Chinese and US flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing, China. File photo: Reuters
Palestinian Territories

My Take | The Western world has already dug its own grave in Gaza war

By enabling Israel to unleash its genocidal impulse, most leaders of developed nations have crossed a moral red line that cannot be undone.

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Canada

My Take | Alberta throws down gauntlet on becoming an energy superpower

Separation threat to Canada from resource-rich province comes when unity and wealth needed to protect against global dangers and Trump.

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South China Sea

Editorial | It seems Donald Trump has just ended Nato with stance on force

If attack on alliance member is one against all, what happens now he has refused to rule out aggression to annex Canada and Greenland?

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US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meet in the Oval Office at the White House. Photo: EPA-EFE

My Take | Retired Cardinal Joseph Zen is more welcome in Hong Kong than Rome

Suggestions that the former Catholic leader should ‘defect’ to the Vatican fail to take into account the political realities of both cities.

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Retired Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen attends a mass at the Holy Cross Church in Hong Kong on May 24, 2022. Photo: AP
Hong Kong

My Take | Rights of all have to be respected following transgender decisions

In Britain, calm is required as the implications of a landmark legal ruling are worked out – and in Hong Kong an activist continues to seek clarity.

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Taiwan

My Take | Western media ignore crackdown on opposition in Taiwan by Lai

Mainstream reporting targets illiberal regimes in Europe, but favours the island leader and his pro-US, independence-seeking government.

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