Not one media commentator can agree on the exact date when the South China Morning Post’s progression from relevance to inconsequence began, but it’s certainly been an incremental process. Considered one of the best papers in Asia, and certainly the best English Language...
When Kim Jong-il passed away last December the world waited to see what his successor would be like. Very little was known about Kim Jong-un; even trivial details such as his appearance and age were a mystery. There was much global speculation as to whether Kim Jong-un would...
On the 4th of June every year since 1989, Hong Kong holds the largest annual Tiananmen Square protests on the globe; tens of thousands of democracy protestors, as well as people who just want to remember what happened, fill up Victoria Park in the central suburb of Causeway Bay....
As discussed in an earlier post on the topic, the issue of territorial conflict in the South China Sea between China and its neighbours hasn’t solved itself; again animosity has been prompted by neighbouring nations taking affront at Chinese fishing ships working and...
The launching of UNHA-3, a North Korean satellite on April 12 2012 was certainly an embarrassing event for the government of North Korea. The satellite was intended to welcome the Kim Jong-Un era in a display of power and strength. Instead, the failure of the satellite merely...
Echoing the tone of many opinion pieces in the Western media, I too was initially confused by China’s outspoken support of the violent Syrian regime, both in the UN and through their press. The brutal year-long crackdown on Arab Spring protestors in the country has had left...
In the last decade the use of the internet has spiked in China, from just over half a million users in the mid to late 90’s, Chinese ‘netizens’ now number over 500 million. This multitude of people has no doubt caused Beijing great anxiety; as a source of public dissent...
Despite it happening at the business end of 2011, the hacking of the US Chamber of Commerce (seemingly by Chinese agents), shocking as it wasn’t in this information age, seemed as nostalgic and interesting an example as any of the intrigue and excitement of the Cold War. In...
Over-fished and under-policed by a corrupt, negligent bureaucracy, China’s territorial fish stocks, after sustaining the world’s most populous nation for thousands of years, are now collapsed. Conversely the consequences of this development seem to be being felt by China’s...
On overseas trade and diplomatic trips Chinese leaders will always make a point of publicly citing the strengths and benefits of the trade relations between China and the host country. This relationship is often framed by talk of mutual respect and friendship from both sides, as...
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