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.
Christine's recent articles
16 April 2025
When elephants clash: The strategic logic behind Trump’s tariffs and China’s response
The world is mesmerised — and unsettled — by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
30 January 2025
Asian vision of peace a bulwark against “America First”
At the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim stood out as a voice of reason and diplomacy, presenting the Asian vision of peace, development, and regional cooperation.
25 January 2025
Donald Trump’s return: gloves off reset
Donald Trump’s return to power for a second term has sent ripples across the globe. On his first day in office, he wielded executive authority with vigour, signing many executive orders, including withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement for the second time. This move reversed the country's climate commitments yet again, signalling Trump’s prioritisation of energy dominance and domestic interests.
30 June 2024
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.
7 September 2023
Green energy growth impressive in China amid its slow economy
Chinas economic growth rate may have slowed, but its global market competitiveness should not be underestimated.
4 September 2023
Expanded Brics will continue to chip away at US dollars 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.
12 July 2023
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.
10 June 2023
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 Kongs predicament is that it lies on a fault line of the geopolitical plates.
7 December 2022
The US is focussed on its own interests, not the people of Taiwan
Taiwans 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).
27 October 2022
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.
7 August 2022
Hong Kong must not be swayed by the Wests 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.
8 March 2022
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 Americas diplomatic recognition as a free and sovereign country. .
4 January 2022
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.
25 August 2021
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 is the priority-legacy on which the global Western media draws today as it increasingly scowls in alarm at the rise of China.
16 May 2021
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.
25 March 2021
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.