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Australia’s government lives in a Pentagon-penned fiction of US primacy

Incredibly, the Australian government has been tricked into swallowing the fiction that China, their country's biggest importer and trade partner, is threat to the nation's existence. RMIT lecturer Binoy Kampmark reports. FEBRUARY 7 SAW THE first AUKUS meeting held between officials of the Trump administration and their Australian servitors since the changing of the guard…

February 17, 20250Comments ByBinoy Kampmark

Hong Kong News Opinion

How the HK Bar Association lost its way – and was guided back on track

In Hong Kong's nightmarish 2019 insurgency, the once-respected Hong Kong Bar Association became a powerful anti-China group, thanks to politicized leaders - and connections with a notorious CIA front organization called the NED. Finally the group has returned to doing what it used to do so well: world class law. Grenville Cross reports. THE HONG…

February 12, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

China news

Sorry, Canadians, Taiwan is not a country – according to your own protocol

Taiwan is not a country - the United Nations is clear about that, and so is Canadian protocol, and even the Taiwanese constitution agrees. So why are officials in Canada getting it wrong? Aidan Jonah reports. CARELESS USERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA sometimes make the mistake of referring to Taiwan as a country, which is no…

February 12, 20250Comments ByAidan Jonah

Hong Kong News News

USAID: ‘Sterilize your women or you get nothing this year’

Writers at The New York Times, the Guardian, and other mainstream press are this week working really hard to mislead their readers into thinking USAID was purely an aid organization, nothing more. But Elon Musk says it is a "criminal organization" which was "beyond repair". What’s the real story? A study of its accounts reveals…

February 6, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture Hong Kong News

Hong Kong comic book artists take wing to show off their art

Hong Kong comic book artists flew to a global graphic story convention in Europe last week—and drew their images live in front of audiences to get attention. The city's comic book artists have got their buzz back, with a series of community support programs keeping them afloat in their home town, and active attendance at…

February 4, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture Opinion

After the rain, the world looks different: thoughts on Trump’s return

THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL election happens every four years. And this time, the leader changes: A man some consider mad returns to power, the world is becoming turbulent again, and it is unclear how the relationship between East and the West will go. But we should look at the essence of things. Blood types have not…

January 28, 20250Comments ByWilson Chan

China news Culture Opinion

US thinks China’s culture is a mirror of its own. It isn’t

American agents, covert and non-covert, are all over the world, interfering in politics and churning out disinformation to keep the US as the world's dominant power. Its leaders assume that rising China is exactly the same. But its culture is totally different. John Menadue reports. As China grows and prospers many in the U.S. want…

January 22, 20250Comments ByJohn Menadue

China news Hong Kong News

Gutsy UK finance chief Reeve faces down the anti-China mob

When new British finance chief Rachel Reeves said she was going to rebuild the friendship between China and the UK, a multi-pronged operation was launched to spoil her mission. It failed. Grenville Cross reports. In 1986, then-US president Ronald Reagan said, “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.” As the…

January 17, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News Opinion

Golf controversy leaves the law stranded in the bunker

A decision to use a section of Hong Kong's best-known golf course for much-needed public housing became a major controversy. The necessary environmental impact assessment was misunderstood as a referendum on the public housing project, leading to widespread confusion, reports retired judge Henry Litton. The government’s proposal to take over a portion of the Fanling…

January 16, 20250Comments ByHenry Litton

Features Hong Kong News

In Hong Kong and mainland China, we’re hooked on aircons

HONG KONG IS COOL. And not just in the metaphorical sense. Fully 99% of homes in the southern Chinese city are well-chilled thanks to technology. With hot, humid summers, and mild winters, air-conditioners are ubiquitous, and most residents use them for much of the year. Fortunately, energy bills are relatively low, with about 20% of…

January 16, 20250Comments BySimon Renshaw