Writer
Christine Loh
Christine Loh is the chief development strategist at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Institute for the Environment. She was a former undersecretary for the environment in the HKSAR Government (2012-17), a former legislator in Hong Kong, and former CEO of the non-profit think tank Civic Exchange. She is also a visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA
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Striving to unite biodiversity, climate and finance
We take nature and biodiversity for granted. Nonhuman life is like a backdrop — we don’t pay much attention to it. This is a mistake. Continue reading »
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Green energy growth impressive in China amid its slow economy
China’s economic growth rate may have slowed, but its global market competitiveness should not be underestimated. Continue reading »
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Expanded Brics will continue to chip away at US dollar’s dominance
How the US has used its dollar privilege for its own interests, without regard to the damage it causes others, has not gone down well with developing countries. The BRICS’ formation and expansion must be seen for what it is: a rallying cry for a fairer world order. Continue reading »
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Reporting and surviving in an age of geopolitical paranoia
Journalism is tough at a time when many topics could be seen through a political lens. Hong Kong provides an interesting case, although it is not the only place where journalism is having to navigate shifting geopolitics and social developments that divide countries and communities. Continue reading »
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Hong Kong: living on the fault line
A multipolar world is being forged by the Global South. Tectonic shifts are taking place between the “collective West” led by the United States and the “Global South” with China in this camp. Hong Kong’s predicament is that it lies on a fault line of the geopolitical plates. Continue reading »
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The US is focussed on its own interests, not the people of Taiwan
Taiwan’s politics is tied to that of mainland China because of the unfinished business of the Chinese civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT). Continue reading »
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Hong Kong is not the place to bet against
It is fashionable in some circles to say Hong Kong is finished because it is now just another Chinese city with diminishing attractiveness for “global” attention. Continue reading »
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Hong Kong must not be swayed by the West’s demonisation of China
The spectre of geopolitical disruption is upon us. Hong Kong must not fall into the trap of pessimism. It must be ready to play defence as Western leaders seek to punish China for its success. Continue reading »
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US provocation of China over Taiwan
On his visit to Taipei, Mike Pompeo, advocated on 28 February 2022 that the US government should “immediately take necessary and long-overdue steps to do the right and obvious thing, that is to offer the Republic of China America’s diplomatic recognition as a free and sovereign country.” . Continue reading »
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Change the White supremacist narrative: a blueprint for a better world
Christine Loh reviews Dismantling Global White Privilege – Equity for a Post Western World by Chandran Nair. Continue reading »
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White Man’s Media: leaving the colonial mindset behind
For well over 100 years, the British colonial viewpoint was conveyed to and absorbed by Chinese living in Hong Kong. Fundamental to securing this outcome was the centrally dominant role of English in colonial life. The English media that mattered told a particular story of Hong Kong that the British and varied expatriates prioritized. This Continue reading »
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Climate change is an area of cooperation for China and the Five Eyes countries
Despite the deterioration in relations between the UK and China, they will continue to cooperate on climate change due to the force of circumstances because the UK is hosting the UN Conference of the Parties on climate change in Scotland in November – referred to as COP26. Continue reading »
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The power of perspective: An insight to the ongoing fractured relationship between Beijing and Hong Kong
Hong Kong exists in two parallel universes; one to escape from because there is no freedom and justice; and one of peace and opportunity. Continue reading »
