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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.
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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

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US-China relations

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

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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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Smoke rises from Gaza, as seen from Israel, May 6, 2025. Photo: Reuters
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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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.

Mainland China

My Take | Canada cannot decouple from China or de-risk from the US

Winning a full-term premiership is the easy part for Mark Carney, who must now lead a country squeezed between two rival superpowers.

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Canada’s Liberal Leader and Prime Minister-elect Mark Carney in Ottawa on March 9, 2025. Photo: AFP via Getty Images
Electric & new energy vehicles

My Take | China’s ambitions in electric vehicles go beyond making lots of cars

To become a powerful car nation, China must lead in smart automotive technologies, China’s former industry minister argues.

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US-China relations

My Take | Tariffs caused many sad endings during the 1930s

Not long ago, not far away, another powerful country resorted to tariffs to beat up the world, ending in mutual destruction.

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My Take | We are witnessing the end of the United States as we know it

Far from being the guarantor of global liberty, prosperity and security, America has become a threat to all three pillars of human civilisation.

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Mainland China

My Take | When it comes to a ‘civilisational state’ is there really such a thing?

Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong poses some intriguing questions about being Chinese, though his conclusions seem quite off the mark.

A ceremony is held at the Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Beijing in July, 2024. A recent high-level training session focused on unified historical narratives for museums. Photo: Xinhua
China economy

My Take | Could China ever learn to live with GDP growth of less than 5 per cent?

Three Chinese economists argue rigid growth target causes local governments to misallocate resources and take on excessive debt.

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Central growth targets play a crucial role in shaping China’s economic trajectory and contribute to the spectacular infrastructure of many of its cities. Photo: Xinhua
Hong Kong

My Take | Wise pope tamed retired Hong Kong bishop and reached out to Beijing

Francis sidelined Cardinal Joseph Zen, restraining his anti-communist opposition to stabilise relations between China and the Vatican.

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My Take | Can US tariffs really choke the life out of Hong Kong?

The US is after Hong Kong’s survival, top Beijing official says. But the free port and trading hub must weather the storm with vigilance.

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Ukraine war

My Take | China does not want the West’s Ukraine and Mideast quagmires

Western propaganda alleging direct Chinese military support for Russia and Yemen has become so outlandish it is bordering on the absurd.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) talks with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, February 28, 2025. They failed to reach a deal after a fiery exchange. Photo: TNS
Hong Kong economy

My Take | Magic of Hong Kong’s coastal areas must not be lost in drive for tourist dollars

While development seems inevitable, the priority must be sustainability and, most of all, preservation of these valuable natural assets.

Britain

My Take | Don’t blame China’s Jingye for failing to save UK steel industry

There was no communist plot behind British Steel’s collapse. If anything, the government takeover may amount to nationalising Chinese property.

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Diplomacy

My Take | It’s time for the European Union to do a ‘Kissinger’ with China

If Brussels wants to achieve ‘strategic autonomy’ in what has become a multipolar world, the only option that it has is to draw closer to Beijing.

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EU and Chinese flags are seen in this illustration taken, March 20, 2025. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong courts

My Take | Hong Kong cannot allow its system of foreign judges to wither and die

Such justices can still play an important part in the city’s future. The judiciary needs to make some big signings, however difficult that may be.

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The Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong

My Take | Donald Trump will make China, not the United States, great again

As with Napoleon’s blockade of Britain under the Continental System, American economic and tech wars have already led China to innovate.

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United States

My Take | Why Trump tariffs have resulted in Canada and China fightback

Both countries want to cut deals with the US president, but know they must go all out to deny the White House bully a cheap and easy win.

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US-China decoupling

Opinion | As Trump’s tariffs roil markets, will new global order bypass the US dollar?

Amid fears of full-blown trade war and demise of rules-based globalisation, Beijing signals it will resist economic coercion and guard free-trade system.

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US-China trade war

My Take | The United States, not China, turns out to be the real bogeyman

The significance of Trump’s tariffs is that they have destroyed the credibility of America on which its global alliances have long depended.

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A screen showing stock prices at the end of the trading day on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 4, 2025. World financial markets are continuing to react to reciprocal tariffs that US President Donald Trump implemented. Photo: EPA-EFE
Hong Kong economy

My Take | Football feast to be the highlight of the city’s summer mega-events

With four of the biggest European teams to play, Hong Kong must put in a performance of the highest level, free from scandals or blunders.

United States

My Take | Donald Trump’s tariff madness targets not only allies but animals

Penguins, seals and seabirds have not been spared in America’s global trade war, likewise territories with significant US or allied military assets.

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