Lau Siu-kai
Lau Siu-kai is a professor emeritus of sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a consultant of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies.
Recent articles by Lau Siu-kai
27 May 2024
America’s febrile anti-China madness
The vast majority of US politicians, media and scholars adhere to an outdated Cold War mentality, regard China as an existential threat, and use all means possible to harm it. The purpose of discrediting, isolating and containing China is to maintain the US’ global hegemony. However, the US’ hostile policy toward China will eventually bring the US down. The US political elites are still not aware of this catastrophic endgame, refuse to admit it, or are aware of it but are reluctant to publicly talk about it for fear of losing support for their anti-China policy.
24 May 2024
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s treacherous gambit is doomed to backfire
Taiwan’s new leader, Lai Ching-te, delivered his inaugural speech on Monday, comprehensively expounding his stance on “Taiwan independence”. Unlike his two predecessors, Chen Shui-bian and Tsai Ing-wen, Lai failed to clearly refer to the 1992 Consensus and the one-China principle, indirectly indicating his rejection of both crucial notions. Instead, Lai unabashedly referred to the notions of “two Chinas” and “one China, one Taiwan”, calling the island a “sovereign and independent country”.
16 March 2024
The US-dominated International Order is collapsing
History will prove that the Russo-Ukrainian war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were catalysts for paradigmatic changes in the international landscape and the driving force behind the eventual demise of the US-led liberal international order.
7 December 2023
China, US offer different approaches to achieving lasting peace in Middle East
In the aftermath of the Suez Crisis of 1956, the United States replaced Britain and France as the sole hegemon in the Middle East. The Middle East has never achieved lasting peace under US hegemony; and years of war and devastation have plunged many Middle Eastern countries into great economic difficulties.
26 August 2023
Rise of the Global South: Saudi Arabia, Iran join BRICS
With the increase in the number of BRICS countries, this emerging international order dominated by the countries of the Global South will ultimately become the primary international order in the world, gradually replacing the fading international order dominated by the US and the West.
21 June 2023
Competing with the US and the West for discourse power
For a long time in the future, in the increasingly fierce and implacable competition between China on one side and the United States and the West on the other, the competition for global discourse power will be the decisive battlefield between them. And who can defeat the enemy on this battlefield will determine to a considerable extent which country will be the final winner in this strategic game related to the worlds future.
21 May 2023
China should not be blamed for decay of 'liberal international order'
In recent years, to contain and isolate China, the United States has repeatedly accused China of continuously ignoring, abusing, distorting, undermining, or violating the rules and institutions of the rules-basedliberal international order (LIO).
13 May 2023
Will America decline peacefully?
There are numerous signs that the United States is undergoing a secular and irreversible process of decline, especially relative to China and other powerful developing nations.