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.
Alex's recent articles
16 July 2023
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.
9 July 2023
For Xi Jinping, economics and unification dont mix
While unification with Taiwan and building a strong economy are the twin pillars of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, its dangerous to assume, as Washington does, that a faltering economy makes Beijing more aggressive towards the island.
5 July 2023
Old Australian politicians speak truth about sleepwalking into war
The manufactured China threat is really about Taiwans hidden drive for independence and Americas need to preserve regional dominance.
8 June 2023
Aukus leaders prefer posturing and provocation over dialogue
Shangri-La Dialogue was a missed opportunity for talks as defence chiefs Austin and Marles insisted on belligerence and doublespeak.
4 June 2023
How to translate Western diplomatic jargon
Such terms and phrases as a rules-based system, de-risking, democracy vs autocracy, and coercive behaviour are not exhaustive but still expose obfuscation and double standards.
25 May 2023
US war on terror leads bloody way in recent deadliest conflicts
With more than 4.5m killed and millions displaced, American revenge for 9/11 attacks puts Ukraine in the shade for 21st century slaughter.
10 May 2023
Demonisation and the US encirclement of China
Its quite clear from recent policies that the US aims to curb Chinas economic development and encircle the country with military bases in unfriendly (from Chinas viewpoint) countries. Such demonisation only reinforces repressive trends in China and benefits security-obsessed hardliners in Chinas political system. Thats why de-demonisation can help those in China who favour a more open and humane social and political system. I have yet to meet a single academic, for example, who favours more rather than less censorship and de-demonisation can help to strengthen such forces, says Daniel Bell in a recent interview with Alex Lo.
8 May 2023
Red scare in US causes multi-year flood of refugees with PhDs to China
OECD data shows China sustains net gain of scientists while US suffers net loss as ethnic Chinese researchers fear US government surveillance and prosecution.
5 May 2023
In a multipolar world, the third pole is not Europe, but Global South
Ukraine war and new cold war against China have accelerated the re-emergence of the old non-aligned movement of developing nations.
20 April 2023
Mainstream press pounces when vassals speak truth to power
Leaders of France, Brazil and Mexico slammed for stating the obvious that is usually ignored by the Anglo-US media industrial complex.
25 March 2023
A tale of two octogenarian politicians
Former Australian leader Paul Keating still has fire in his belly, while US President Joe Biden appears to be losing his mind and when it comes to Aukus and a nuclear submarine deal to counter China, theyre on opposite sides.
19 March 2023
Diplomacy in Beijing, war pact in San Diego whos the belligerent?
Under the Aukus military accord, Australia and Britain are committing serious self-harm to defend the American empire in the Indo-Pacific.
14 March 2023
Existential threat? Its China that faces the prospect of annihilation
Members of a key US House committee wanted anti-Beijing antagonism and that was what they got together with the spectre of armed conflict.
25 February 2023
The real news Washington does not want you to know about
Faced with a mini-Chernobyl in Ohio and bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, the Chinese balloon was a distraction White House needed.
14 February 2023
China statecraft must avoid war with US and keep Taiwan peace
It would be a grave mistake for Beijing to respond in kind in the face of incessant provocations and escalations by America and its allies.
21 January 2023
West just cannot decide whether it actually wants China to fail
With Western unity enabled by Irans nuclear scheme and Russias invasion of Ukraine, China must not oblige with ruinous cross-strait war.
17 December 2022
The complex and differing images of jailed former tycoon Jimmy Lai
The latest prison term for former media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying will inevitably be portrayed by the Western media as further communist persecution of the citys leading pro-democracy fighter. But many local people who lived through more than two decades of Lais media dominance will have a very different take. If you want a better understanding of this intriguing and complex figure, you need to take into account both his local and international images.
15 September 2022
Death of Elizabeth marks return to Little England
The passing of the beloved monarch will herald the inevitable descent of this once-powerful nation from global empire to no more than a fractured island.
29 August 2022
The US-A genocidal warmongering nation disguised as a democracy?
From its inception to the present, the US rarely distinguishes between diplomacy and war. Today, it has ambassadors working in one-third of the worlds countries, but has special force operators active in three quarters of them.
21 July 2022
Canberra wants a new arms race in Asia
Australias new defence minister has warned the region is facing a dangerous military build-up. His solution? Lets arm to the teeth with Americas help.
16 June 2022
US hysterics over a Cambodian naval pier
The Chinese navy will struggle to threaten the region or launch a war from a tiny pier earmarked for upgrade at the Ream Naval Base.
26 May 2022
The US is priming Asia-Pacific for war
For Washington, containing China is more important than risking the lives of millions in the region. Such a war will, after all, be fought on the other side of the world, so far as ordinary Americans already sold on the evil of communist China and the benevolence of their own country are concerned.
31 March 2022
How Russia teaches China by counter example about the weaponisation of the global economy
Moscow may have launched a hot war in Ukraine, but the West has declared total financial warfare on Russia. That is a unique learning experience for Beijing, one it will take full advantage of in the years ahead
21 March 2022
The West with its double standards is deluding itself about its moral prestige and geopolitical prowess
News stories from the leaders of Aukus are just too much these days. They would have been amusing if the issues at hand werent so serious, even tragic.
8 February 2022
How Xi Jinping became the real-life Dr Evil through the mainstream Western media
Endless negative news stories and opinion pieces about how bad China is in almost every way are bound to shape public perception.
14 November 2021
US military exonerated over botched, deadly drone strike
The United States should be treated as it treats other countries and be sanctioned for Afghanistan drone strikes.
6 November 2021
Amnesty Internationals hidden politics, not Hong Kongs, is the real problem
As a human rights group, Amnesty has nothing to fear in Hong Kong. As a foreign political organisation, it doesnt have much of a future.
5 September 2021
Hong Kongs success continues despite foreign critics.
China has its own version of good governance and understanding of civil society, law and order and financial system. Dismiss them at your peril.
31 August 2021
White Man's Media: How the Western media hegemony operates
In a formal democracy, particularly one with a global empire to uphold, public opinion is too important to be left to the people to think for themselves.
14 August 2021
How Washington co-opts Hollywood and the news media
Latest expos of Pentagon documents show how Washington manipulates an ostensibly free and independent media industry.
4 August 2021
A foreign policy built on shamelessness and hypocrisy
As US lectures other countries on human rights and press freedom, its military has been busy killing foreign civilians and its prosecutors are going after journalists, whistleblowers and ethnic Chinese researchers.
11 July 2021
Hong Kong returns to its old self: economically rich but politically neutral
The city is not losing a democracy it never had but simply going back to being an apolitical community focusing on finance and trade, as it had always been, after a brief and anomalous period of intense and often violent politicisation.
28 June 2021
Why do so many US intelligence chiefs become media pundits?
Retiring from being in charge of intelligence, counter-intelligence and counterterrorism to working as mainstream news commentators, this has become an established career path in the US; now you can rest assured of the objectivity and independence of the worlds greatest democratic free press...I am sure they provide objective and unbiased analyses, and their paymasters make sure they do. And pigs fly over the mountains