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Can Europe dare to do the smart thing, and partner with China in Africa?

Europe’s relationship with Africa encompasses significant grim history. Yet the continent is more central to how Europe’s future will look than ever. Meanwhile, China’s remarkably constructive relationship with Africa today presents a potential primary mode for substantially enhancing Africa’s prospects. This geopolitical fact also represents a crucial opportunity for Europe to partner with China and…

February 19, 20250Comments ByRichard Cullen

News Opinion

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

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

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

Opinion

Extent of UK’s vassal-dom to US shown by stunning new study

Quiz: Which of the following stores you find on high streets all over the UK are American and which are British? 1. Boots (chemist) 2. Waterstones (bookshop) 3. McDonalds (fast food) 4. Morrisons (supermarket) 5. Gail's (bakery) 6. Majestic Wine (alcoholic drinks) 7. KFC (fast food) 8. Costa (coffee) Did you find that difficult or…

January 13, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News Opinion

When Hong Kong’s leader was wrongfully jailed as a criminal

It was a shocking turn of affairs. A respected former leader of Hong Kong was relentlessly pursued by lawyers and eventually thrown in jail as a criminal – before further examination established that he was not guilty of anything and had been wrongly imprisoned. It was a long nightmare for Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, a popular…

January 10, 20250Comments ByHenry Litton

China news Opinion

Starmer wants China friendship but MI5 is following a different script

Working to create positive relationships between the peoples of UK and China is now a crime in the eyes of MI5. This harmful policy has been easy to implement when they just pointed at ethnic Chinese. But now leader Keir Starmer wants a positive relationship too. Grenville Cross reports. On Oct 16, 2022, black-clad provocateurs,…

January 3, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News Opinion

When lawyers decided to bring down Hong Kong’s Chief Executive

One of the signs that Hong Kong has a world-class legal system is the way judiciary and government often disagree on outcomes. That shows healthy independence. But there have been cases in which people in the city's legal sector, using taxpayer legal aid money, attack the Chief Executive to create political theatre and hurt our…

January 2, 20250Comments ByHenry Litton

Opinion

Can Europe dare to do the smart thing, and partner with China in Africa?

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

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

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

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

Golf controversy leaves the law stranded in the bunker

Extent of UK’s vassal-dom to US shown by stunning new study

When Hong Kong’s leader was wrongfully jailed as a criminal

Starmer wants China friendship but MI5 is following a different script

When lawyers decided to bring down Hong Kong’s Chief Executive

Tucker Carlson has become the conscience of the western media: or has he?

How horrible is nuclear war: lessons from a 1957 novel

Idea: Existing tech can be used to ease Hong Kongers’ time spent in Chinese mainland