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Richard Cullen

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How NOT to write about Hong Kong and mainland China

The western mainstream media's brutally negative narrative about Hong Kong has spontaneously caused the emergence of a range of voices energized to stand up and speak out for the community, says Richard Cullen. AFTER ENCOUNTERING a fresh set of unvaried, China-thumping articles in the New York Times, I sometimes wonder if others, like me, mentally…

October 5, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

Opinion

Life on a geopolitical fault line

Hong Kong can do nothing right, it seems. But it’s not the community’s fault: it lives on a fault line, trying to balance between two much larger, more powerful entities. Richard Cullen recalls a different occasion when two big powers, the US and the UK, had a difference of opinion. Often, much smaller communities end…

August 31, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

News Opinion

Hong Kong’s fugitives and Canberra’s remarkable response

The Hong Kong authorities recently issued arrest warrants for eight individuals living offshore who are alleged to have breached the National Security Law. Canberra has swiftly jumped to express concern for the two fugitives who live in Australia. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that this rash response reflects, in part, a felt-need in…

July 18, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

Features News

The untold truth about Taiwan’s real legal position

The daily Western presentation of Taiwan as a functionally independent nation on the verge of being “invaded” by China flies in the face of the actual facts, as specified by global agreements recognized and codified by people on both sides of the strait. China’s governing constitutional instruments specify that the mainland and Taiwan are one…

June 28, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

Opinion

Harvard China academic takes on the Economist

The Economist magazine recently pushed dramatic statistical claims about the USA’s apparently world-beating economic growth. These figures raised the eyebrows of a prominent Harvard professor who responded that the numbers worked just fine - but only if China was omitted! The publication responded to his impudence by going on an energetic attack with a cover…

June 7, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

Features

Intriguing tale of China’s speedy pandemic recovery

No jurisdiction has managed a flawless COVID response, says Richard Cullen. But China, despite its imperfect COVID management experience, did better than any other major jurisdiction and, in fact, displayed many examples of early-best-practice unseen elsewhere. Exasperatingly, the West found, yet again, that it there is much it can learn from China - and then,…

May 8, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

Features

Why is no one factchecking these statements on militarization?

Major figures are making provocative public statements which appear to be demonstrably wrong, increasing the possibility of conflict in Asia. But who is pointing this out and setting the record straight? Sadly, the media isn't, laments Richard Cullen. THE RECENT ASIAN Security Summit in Singapore convened by the International Institute for Strategic Affairs –…

July 1, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

Opinion

The West is just taking whatever it wants: that will blow back

Financiers are expressing growing concern about the under-reported western assault on international property rights The neutrality of the world's reserve currency has been sacrificed for political ends, but where's the outrage? Or even discussion? Jim Rogers and others are warning of serious long-term negative consequences, saying the US dollar will ultimately die THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING…

April 23, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

Features

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

China’s firm, serious approach to managing the Covid pandemic has differed from that of many other countries, and has clearly worked rather well. Yet Western media outlets feel compelled to tell China that it has slipped badly behind the times by not shifting, as they have, to Living with Covid. Seeing other (surely inferior!) societies doing…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

Features

Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

For two years, Hong Kong demonstrated an admirable capacity to retain robust control of COVID-19 outbreaks. This durable achievement was, however, grimly transformed by the Omicron driven fifth wave of COVID cases. Richard Cullen looks at what went wrong A RESPECTED, VETERAN Hong Kong journalist, Peter Kammerer, argued in the South China Morning Post…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

Richard Cullen

How NOT to write about Hong Kong and mainland China

Life on a geopolitical fault line

Hong Kong’s fugitives and Canberra’s remarkable response

The untold truth about Taiwan’s real legal position

Harvard China academic takes on the Economist

Intriguing tale of China’s speedy pandemic recovery

Why is no one factchecking these statements on militarization?

The West is just taking whatever it wants: that will blow back

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

Starmer meets Xi today, hopes to rebuild UK’s relationship

Treasures from 800-year-old sunken vessel exhibited in Hong Kong

At the Great Wall, I learned how the Chinese dealt with their enemies