Blog Band – Fridayeveryday

Hong Kong, now safe from hostile interventions, is back on the map

Hong Kong is number one on the global economic freedom index, number one in a study of best university cities, number one in the world IPO chart, and so on. There's much to celebrate on its 28th post-colonial birthday, says Grenville Cross. TODAY, THE HONG KONG Special Administrative Region celebrates the 28th anniversary of its establishment. With…

17 hours ago0Comments ByGrenville Cross

News Opinion

Three US-aided black ops that devastated Israel’s neighbors

Israel, with US help, quietly implemented three tech-based operations to lash out at neighboring countries: Iran, Lebanon and Syria. The operations were clever, ruthless, and outside international law. Jeffrey S Myers tells the incredible story. A STUDY OF THE TIMELINES leading to Israel's illegal attack on Iran reveals that the operation was planned long in…

June 20, 20250Comments ByJeffrey Myers

China news Culture

China-Laos rail’s success defies Western media’s excessive negativity

LAOS, ONE OF THE POOREST countries in Asia, is developing after China built a major railway and other infrastructure, a United Nations official said this week. And the difference between what is actually happening and what the BBC and Reuters predicted would happen is breathtaking, users noted. The BBC predicted the railway would bring financial…

June 5, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Opinion

Why China has a father or ‘grandpa’ and the US has a commander-in-chief

Professor Wang Pei (汪沛教授), a young scholar at Hong Kong University, has recently published a new extended essay that draws on Jungian archetypes to investigate: “Hero and Father: Contrasting Leadership Styles in the USA-China Rivalry” (available here). AMERICA JUMPS THE RAILS Just over a year ago, at Fridayeveryday, I maintained that, “America bombs while China…

June 4, 20250Comments ByRichard Cullen

China news

New docs reveal what really happened in Beijing, 1989

NEWLY UNEARTHED DOCUMENTS today reveal what really happened in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 1989—how the protests were prepared, how teams caused them to escalate, and how they really came to an end. And they provide the most detailed account yet about one of the biggest hoaxes in modern history—one so successful that the perpetrators, an…

June 1, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Opinion

Almost everything you read about the South China Seas dispute is wrong

China outrageously claims the WHOLE of the South China Seas with its nine-dash line! It does so, despite LOSING a UN court battle that ruled that the Philippines had sovereignty over the waters! Heard those arguments before? Such myths are printed everywhere, year after year. Now read what really happened. Pierre Herbst reports.…

May 15, 20250Comments ByPierre Herbst

Hong Kong News

Hong Kong edges back up global financial charts

STOCK PRICES of dual-listed international companies are rising in Hong Kong and falling in New York. "This should be reason enough for companies to re-list in Hong Kong and maintain listings in both Hong Kong and New York, in our opinion," said financial analysts writing in Forbes yesterday. CASH FLOWING SOUTH This divergence is interesting,…

May 1, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Opinion

A hillbilly White House and the wisdom of peasants

In 2016, US Vice President JD Vance published a best-selling memoir entitled “Hillbilly Elegy”. Curiously, he explained on the Fox News network recently that China’s pivotal influence on American consumption was due to the US borrowing “money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture” (YouTube link here). Let's consider the sort…

April 23, 20250Comments ByRichard Cullen

Chinese history Hong Kong News Opinion

Today’s shifting allegiances reminds me a shocking true tale of wartime tragedy

HERE'S A SHOCKING TRUE STORY. Americans torpedo a ship. British victims are drowning. Japanese soldiers fire guns to kill survivors. Chinese fishermen come to the rescue. This unbelievable but true story is a complex real life incident. It took place more than 80 years ago, during World War II, but I was reminded of it…

April 22, 20250Comments Bykenneth Li

China news

China just stopped exporting rare earths. The US is worried

CHINA JUST STOPPED exporting its rare earths to the US—in a bizarre reflection of the US halt on stopping exports of high-end chips to China. On April 4, the Chinese leadership placed export restrictions on two categories of rare earth products. One listed six specific heavy rare earth metals, and the other dealt with the…

April 16, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi