Writer
Alex Lo
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.
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China was never an imperialist state
During its long history, Chinese dynasties were as often the victims of outside aggression as they were invaders of foreign land. Continue reading »
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The United States leaves a mess in Ukraine, moves on to China
The US State Department’s No 2 now admits the AUKUS joint submarine project between three of the Five Eyes is tied to Taiwan and mainland China. Continue reading »
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Everything Chinese is a national security threat to the United States
After the battles over 5G, social media and advanced microchips, Chinese electric cars are the new front line of US economic warfare. Continue reading »
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Hong Kong is losing competitiveness to cities on the mainland
The danger Hong Kong faces is not that it might become ‘just another mainland city’, but that it is already subpar to many of its urban cousins across the border. Continue reading »
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Washington is the supporter of genocide who sits in judgment of others
China’s contrasting political repression and economic development in Tibet and Xinjiang does not hold a candle to US-sponsored state terrorism by Israel against the Palestinian people. Continue reading »
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The world is fighting back against a real genocide
Now we know how racial mass murders are committed by watching one live on our computer and TV screens. Continue reading »
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When celebrated dissidents find the grass isn’t greener on the other side
Ai Weiwei joins a long line of dissenters such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Liu Xiaobo who became disenchanted by the West. Continue reading »
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Quite literally, China builds while America bombs, and this study proves it
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. Continue reading »
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Mearsheimer: China cements diplomatic role as Palestinian genocide isolates US, Israel
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. Continue reading »
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Look who’s committing genocide according to American media
China is guilty by investing in infrastructure, providing free education … and forcing tourists to pay to enter Xinjiang’s most sacred mosque. Continue reading »
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Some journalists’ lives are worth more than others
In politics, there is often no reward, only penalty, for being right, especially when you go against the messaging of the ruling elites. Continue reading »
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American elites may fear Trump return, but the rest of us need not
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. Continue reading »
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In Jimmy Lai’s case, the West has put itself on trial
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying is now in the dock facing charges of colluding with foreign forces under the national security law and a separate one for sedition. It will be interesting to hear the evidence, but even before that, the Western press just wants to put Hong Kong on trial. Continue reading »
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How Western allies subvert international law and norms to ‘contain’ China
The US has been ruthlessly militarising what some Pentagon strategists have called the island chains of defence in the Indo-Pacific with quiet ‘Five Eyes’ help. Continue reading »
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Is this the end of America’s sanctimonious ideology?
If somehow all those ‘rules-based’ systems work overwhelmingly to the benefit of the US and its Western allies, the rest of the world may wonder why they should follow them. Continue reading »
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America, why don’t you get your bloodied hands off Hong Kong
Weaponising human rights against the city and mainland China only becomes more farcical when the US and its close allies are busy violating them. Continue reading »
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US proxy Anthony Albanese goes to Beijing
While Australia’s formal sovereignty resides with the British monarch as part of the Commonwealth, its real sovereignty is to be found somewhere in Washington. Continue reading »
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A divided US needs an ‘enemy’ like Beijing more than it ever did
When something becomes too complicated, psychologists say we go for ‘rules of thumb’. In Washington today, that rule is ‘the China threat’. Continue reading »
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Militarising exclusive maritime zones – a new global US security doctrine?
International law of the sea is set to be subverted as America seeks to exercise extraterritorial defence claims over foreign exclusive economic zones beyond those of three Pacific island states. Continue reading »
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How Washington fought off the great Chinese balloon invasion
If the US needed millions of dollars to shoot down a couple of hobbyist balloons, a trillion-dollar military budget is not enough to fight China. Continue reading »
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There is more to the Xinjiang story than meets Western media eyes
According to independent observers who visited the region, Beijing has implemented policies to help Uygurs after crushing terrorist threat. Continue reading »
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China spy cases sound like more Western paranoia
The China threat has much more to do with the insecurity and indecision of the West towards the country, the emerging multipolar world and the erosion of Western dominance. Continue reading »
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The chip war is now a patriotic war for China
The tech fight is about economic survival for Beijing, but just another ‘war’ of choice for US politicians and technocrats. It’s easy to predict which side has the greater will to prevail. Continue reading »
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Neither the US nor China seem intent on meaningful diplomacy
One side seems to prefer dealing with former leaders rather than current ones. The other likes to talk, while piling on coercive measures. Continue reading »
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A most severe national security law you will have never heard of
When it comes to a ‘pivot state’ in Asia against China, the security apparatus of South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol is ignored or given a free pass by the West. Continue reading »
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Hong Kong a national security threat to the US? You’ve got to be joking, Uncle Sam
A ‘national emergency’ order on itself may be more useful as no country poses a greater danger to itself and others than the United States. Continue reading »
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Ambitions of NATO in Asia are simply a delusion of grandeur
The North Atlantic military alliance has no business in the continent and it should just stop going on about the so-called China threat. Continue reading »
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The art of vassalisation: the new middle kingdom of the United States
An EU paper explains how traditional Western allies on the continent are being turned into vassal states of the US as part of Washington’s strategy to contain the rise of China. Continue reading »
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For Xi Jinping, economics and unification don’t mix
While unification with Taiwan and building a strong economy are the twin pillars of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, it’s dangerous to assume, as Washington does, that a faltering economy makes Beijing more aggressive towards the island. Continue reading »
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Old Australian politicians speak truth about sleepwalking into war
The manufactured ‘China threat’ is really about Taiwan’s hidden drive for independence and America’s need to preserve regional dominance. Continue reading »
