Covid-19, not to mention SARS, Bird Flu and Swine Flu, have been trying to drive home the message that the consumption of animals, domesticated and wildlife, is deadly to humans. Hopefully, Covid-19 has got this message across to humanity. While China and the U.S. are duking it out over who is to blame for what […]
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As an American-Hongkonger living in Hong Kong, I am embarrassed being repeatedly asked why Americans are being so stupidly stubborn about face masks and social distancing. This includes conversations with Chinese-Americans and black and white American brothers and sisters in Hong Kong and America. Bottom line, I feel safer living in Hong Kong with its […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has poisoned the U.S.-China relationship and turned it into a Kung Flu blame-game slugfest. Both Presidents Trump and Xi are flexing their negotiating muscles for their own political benefit and survival, playing up to their respective home audience by blaming each other for the pandemic that has infected more than 9 million […]
Link to article How Hong Kong got its coronavirus response right – by taking care of business Although the handling of the national anthem and national security laws has been disappointing, Hong Kong has done an admirable job of coping with the economic crisis from the Covid-19 pandemic, as it struggles to contain a political […]
Beijing — not Covid-19 — killed the Hong Kong goose laying golden eggs for China. The new Hong Kong Article 23 national security law tabled May 22, that was adopted May 28, to be passed into law by the Standing Committee of the National people’s Congress (“NPC”), probably sometime in July-August, before the Legislative Council […]
Presidents Trump and Xi are facing political headwinds at home, both within their respective political parties — and domestic front with the public at large. To distract their political constituencies from their trade war, domestic economic recessions and unemployment brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, they are flexing their military muscles in the South China […]
As health measures such as air travel restrictions are being relaxed in countries amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, I wonder what airlines will do to recoup losses when people, in the millions, begin to travel again. Would they pack passengers to the maximum, like sardines, as they used to do in the pre-pandemic days? Seating […]
The arrest, after 74 days, of retired police officer Gregory McMichael and his son Travis, two white men, for the shooting murder of unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery that was captured on video, running in his neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia, because they thought he was a suspect in a series of area burglaries, shocked the […]
China has repeatedly accused Western “Black Hands,” the U.S. and U.K. in particular, of being the financial backers and provocateurs of the violent street protests in Hong Kong, in what first started as protests against the government’s now withdrawn extradition law – that have now turned into protests demanding democracy. America has been blamed for […]