Alex Lo
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- Sep 27, 2026
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My Take | How Beijing is neutralising Washington’s sanctions machine (opens the original)
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As alternative networks like China’s CIPS gain traction, the multilateral pushback is steadily eroding US financial dominance Last week, the president of the United States stood at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly and asked aloud whether he should “annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly”. Donald Trump then turned to Venezuela’s oil and declared: “To the victor belong the spoils, you’ve all heard that …”
As I see it | China and the US can make nice, if not peace (opens the original)
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Outright enmity is too costly for both superpowers. Even without trust, shared interests leave room for pragmatic cooperation Washington and Beijing have spent nearly a decade trading tariffs, export controls and blacklists, with each round threatening rupture. Yet they keep recovering from the brink. As the two presidents met at the White House this week, that pattern was repeating. Simply put, decoupling is proving ruinously expensive on both sides: two-way goods and services trade fell 25.1 p
As I see it | Taiwan might as well give up now (opens the original)
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If Washington can’t or won’t defend the island, Taipei has no choice but to settle with Beijing The United States does not care much about democracy in general or Taiwan’s democracy in particular. Defending the island’s political system is a fairy tale it and its allies tell others; their real intention has always been to prevent China’s reunification and contain its rise. In reality, the island is a key node in the so-called first island chain for defence, or rather, offence against mainland Ch
As I see it | Why mainland Chinese despise the British – but Hongkongers don’t (opens the original)
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Whereas Hong Kong people experienced a milder form of colonialism, mainland Chinese were subjected to the extremes of Western imperialism What explains the vastly different attitudes of Hong Kong people and their mainland Chinese counterparts towards the United Kingdom? The first and easiest answer is, of course, Western freedom and democracy as allegedly practised – or at least taught – in colonial Hong Kong, as opposed to Chinese communist propaganda on the mainland. That is the most oft-cited
Opinion | The world is not so much embracing China as recoiling from Trump’s US (opens the original)
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The US is haemorrhaging goodwill around the world, but China will have to build up its own trustworthiness and credibility to win hearts and minds Global surveys show China is now more popular than the United States in most countries. The reality is China hasn’t become more popular, only that Uncle Sam has become odious. The SCO summit, representing organisations that account for roughly 40 per cent of all the people in the world, issued a joint declaration that laid bare the depth of internatio
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