👤 Alex Lo

2026-09-25 · South China Morning Post · Politics

China and the US can make nice, if not peace

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2026-10-20 · South China Morning Post · Politics

Britain’s ban on pro-Palestinian author Sally Rooney makes it a laughing stock

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2026-10-06 · South China Morning Post · World

Can’t Uygurs drink Starbucks and taste American freedom?

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2026-11-03 · South China Morning Post · Politics

The new Canada is much like the old one

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2026-11-01 · South China Morning Post · Politics

Washington’s unending vendetta against Cuba

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2026-10-30 · South China Morning Post · Politics

The flaw in Australia’s ‘China threat’ thesis

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2026-09-04 · South China Morning Post

🔮 The Pentagon is expected to take a direct stake in the parent of North American Blue Energy Partners, the private oil producer hand-picked by Washington for the deal. assertive

2026-09-06 · South China Morning Post

🔮 As a strong advocate of the Western model of liberal democracy, Acemoglu, co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, may be considered the ideological opposite of the Chinese president. mixed

2026-09-13 · South China Morning Post

🔮 He said that “the Iranians have really survived an attack that almost no other country in the region would be able to survive”. assertive

2026-09-15 · South China Morning Post

🔮 The world is not so much embracing China as recoiling from Trump’s US 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 assertive

2026-09-27 · South China Morning Post

🔮 In the same speech, Trump said the United States would not join global regulation of AI and urged countries to abandon the International Criminal Court. assertive

2026-09-29 · South China Morning Post

🔮 Armageddon is what will happen when billionaires, or even trillionaires, are given free rein. assertive

2026-10-09 · South China Morning Post

🔮 European warships near Taiwan will not make Beijing back down. assertive

2026-10-18 · South China Morning Post

🔮 The decisions of the coming decade, Rubio said, “will determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world or resigns itself to a future of atrophy and servitude and decline”. assertive

2026-10-20 · South China Morning Post

🔮 From where everyone else is sitting, she might as well have been talking about her Labour Party colleagues, such as fellow former home secretary Yvette Cooper, who spearheaded the proscription under former prime minister Keir Starmer. mixed

2026-10-23 · South China Morning Post

🔮 Amid a proxy war with Russia, growing acrimony with the US and roiling protests at home, it is madness for European leaders to pick a trade fight with China 3-MIN READ3-MIN Alex Lo has been an SCMP columnist since 2012, commenting on China and international affairs. Beijing has told Brussels not to “fantasise” that pressure will extract concessions. assertive

2026-11-01 · South China Morning Post

🔮 The article cites a Cuban government submission to the UN secretary general, according to which roughly 1,400 megawatts of generating capacity – about a third of demand – could not be used at the end of May because there was no fuel. assertive

2026-11-03 · South China Morning Post

🔮 Pierre Poilievre, the current Conservative Party leader, who was at times dubbed “Canada’s Trump”, might have beaten Carney in the last election had US President Donald Trump not antagonised Canadians by threatening to make their country the 51st US state. assertive