Alex Lo
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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Past articles by Alex:
Lords and ladies of Britain really need to get their facts right
As London looks set to break human rights laws, privileged voices fall short of the truth on a veteran Hong Kong journalist and his detained wife. → Read More
War cries from Down Under will merely threaten regional peace
Leading news outlets are selling a false narrative that Australia will have to fight with US for its national security in conflict over Taiwan. → Read More
What European philosophy can teach about US foreign policy
An erudite reader applies French existentialism to analysing the state of decline of the American empire while I counter with my own highly inadequate version of Hegelianism. → Read More
Are US Fed economists Chinese propagandists too?
A foreign ministry document cataloguing American hegemonic abuses in the political, economic and military fields has been dismissed by top US envoy Nicholas Burns as propaganda, but a new US Fed paper makes exactly the same economic points. → Read More
Asean must seize the moment for regional security and prosperity
The fate of the Asia-Pacific region is too important to be left to the arrogant West and belligerent China, and their out-of-control rivalry. → Read More
Existential threat? It’s China that faces the prospect of annihilation
Members of a key US House committee wanted anti-Beijing antagonism and that was what they got together with the spectre of armed conflict. → Read More
Deadly balancing act for region with US hell bent on China war
Nations must be aware of Washington’s unreliability, irresponsibility, propensity for conflict and that taking sides is a recipe for disaster. → Read More
A Marxist guide to investing in the American stock market
The largest holding in my portfolio is the Vanguard total stock market ETF, which roughly mirrors the S&P, so I am really not boasting here. → Read More
Forgotten Washington-inspired genocide is back in the headlines
Joko Widodo has acknowledged Indonesia’s past rights abuses, if only US would admit its role in massacre of up to a million under Suharto → Read More
In Ukraine, Western interests don’t equate to a universal moral principle
A new international survey explains succinctly why the rest of the world does not stand with the West over a war that is not of their own making. → Read More
Key to regional, perhaps world, peace rests with Taiwan voters
KMT government led by someone like Wayne Chiang in next year’s poll will return cross-strait relations to normality and trade to vibrancy. → Read More
New Nato doctrine on China resurrects old geopolitical row
In the latest struggle for supremacy, it’s the ‘Rimland’ of the West expanding to contain and encircle the ‘Heartland’ of Russia and China. → Read More
Ukraine war has been good for the US, but its allies not so much
While propagating the need for the West to unite against autocracies, Washington is ruthlessly pursuing its own interests against those of its allies. → Read More
Tokyo the worst place to launch Western tirades against China
Political has-beens hitch a ride in Japan to show who can sound tougher on China in a demonstration of groupthink that may doom us all. → Read More
The real news Washington does not want you to know about
Faced with a ‘mini-Chernobyl’ in Ohio and bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, the Chinese balloon was a distraction White House needed. → Read More
A war over Taiwan? You can forget about it
Thanks to Putin, all sides with real stakes in cross-strait relations get an in-your-face reality check on the costs of war that are too high and unaffordable for anyone. → Read More
Balloon brouhaha is American political hysteria at its worst
US domestic politics generates the kind of belligerence from both the Democratic and Republican parties that may lead to a third world war. → Read More
Why the opposition was crushed in Hong Kong
As the international political landscape rapidly changed in the late 2010s, many in the city backed the wrong horse by siding with the Western powers and Taiwan. → Read More
Banks are doing BN(O)ers in UK a favour by withholding their MPF pensions
Anti-China MPs in Britain have claimed human rights violations by banks such as HSBC for making MPF withdrawals difficult while their own government has seized US$2 billion worth of gold from the people of Venezuela. → Read More
China and the United States are ‘mirror images of each other’
Their conflicts and internal struggles underlie attempts by both systems to resolve the problems of capitalism to which there is no alternative. → Read More