Ai Weiwei joins a long line of dissenters such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Liu Xiaobo who became disenchanted by the West.
The Basic Law as the constitutional foundation of the city contains two equally legitimate but contradictory visions which, in the end, prove to be incompatible.
China most likely runs global cyberespionage, but it’s nothing compared to the US and its allies, as shown in the latest domestic CIA spy case.
Abuse and constant references to Chinese Communist Party by senator right out of McCarthyite era and reason for world to be wary of America.
On Washington’s telling, Beijing is spreading authoritarianism through producing goods and building infrastructure around the world while the US is promoting freedom and democracy by bombing and selling weapons.
Mega-starred series Expats keeps generating controversies, with the latest being allegations of censorship as the city’s viewers can’t watch two premiered episodes.
While it’s unclear whether Iran can be blamed for the drone killing of three US soldiers, it’s American decision makers like the president who put them in harm’s way in the first place.
Jens Stoltenberg may sound like an anti-China hawk but he seems to have no idea what Beijing wants from the wars in Ukraine and Palestine.
Domestic lawsuit hearings on US complicity follow International Court of Justice’s same-day ruling that Israel has a genocide case to answer.
The country’s best known ‘liberal’ post-war philosopher has come out in support of Israel’s scorched-earth military campaign in Gaza.
Sunak and Cameron can keep repeating the same lie about our city but the UK domestic security law introduced last year is even more restrictive and has been denounced by UN rights chief.
In trying to fight Beijing, Washington is causing irreparable damage to the world economy and it may be too great for even America to bear.
This year may see a farcical replay of the vicious presidential election of 1800, marking extreme partisanship and distrust of government that led to civil strife.
John Mearsheimer, in an interview, also argues South Africa’s case of genocide against Israel before the ICJ will further isolate the Jewish state and the US, while Palestinians face the bleak prospect of apartheid or ethnic cleansing.
China is guilty by investing in infrastructure, providing free education … and forcing tourists to pay to enter Xinjiang’s most sacred mosque.
New book details how America has weaponised the global economy to attack foes and bully friends, with Hong Kong among those targeted.
US commentator Gonzalo Lira was crucified for being right about the war in Ukraine. His death from medical neglect in prison has been met by a deafening silence from Western officials and pundits.
The US has become a more dangerous nation and Donald 2.0, with his instinctive aversion to war, may even be less threatening to the world.
The rest of the world has been doing everything to save Palestinian lives, but the West, led by the US, has been thwarting them at every turn.
With Israel being accused of committing genocide and the US supplying weapons to bomb Gaza, the Yemeni Houthis’ stance on ‘responsibility to protect’ Palestinians looks more courageous and legitimate by the day.
Despite what most Western pundits think, both sides will test each other’s intentions in a way that may lead to a temporary easing of tensions.
If you support Israel but feel uneasy about the high death toll, you may not want to object to the ICJ’s ‘provisional measures’ to halt carnage.
A massive data analysis of BBC reports, and responses by CBC executives, the Canadian equivalent, to viewer complaints reveals a similar reporting pattern of discrimination and dehumanisation.
China has benefited from crises in Ukraine and the Middle East, but as both wind down get ready for some dangerous times back in the Pacific.
Spreading debt distress and rising extreme poverty in Global South have more to do with Western private-public lending practices, often promoted by Washington, than China.
The sense of entitlement of a hedge fund star and the stellar investment records of members of the US Congress are further evidence that crony capitalism is too polite a term.
China’s diplomacy suddenly starts to look ‘not too bad’ compared to the genocide and ethnic cleansing, and their enabling by some democracies.
Israel is only told to be more careful in its attacks as media toll grows while Khashoggi killing is forgotten and ordeal for Assange goes on.
Western ‘universal’ values are those with the most powerful armies and navies while all other values are those with lesser ones.
