Why I left Hong Kong
The national security law and its chilling effect on our civil liberties compelled me to leave my home.
Category Archives: Opinions
China’s rise and America’s decline spell conflict
Monday's summit between Xi and Biden addressed everything from trade to security and human rights, but resolved nothing.
Who is benefitting from the Poland-Belarus border crisis?
The escalation of tensions in Eastern Europe is a convenient smokescreen for domestic troubles.
It is time for global action against cervical cancer
COVID-19 is the wake-up call for health equity: Let’s use it to help women rise from the nightmare of cervical cancer.
Do Scottish nationalists really want another referendum now?
Momentum is currently with the unionists and the SNP and Green Party know this.
For Taiwanese, the threat of a Chinese invasion is part of life
After decades of living with the threat of war, we cope by being both highly tense and unexpectedly relaxed.
The little boat that could
How a Canadian pro-Palestine group won a rare victory against Israel.
Why isn’t British ‘sleaze’ called what it really is?
British politicians do what African politicians do. Yet they insist on calling it something else.
Havana Syndrome: an act of war or just an act?
Are US diplomats and CIA emissaries really subjected to mysterious 'neurological attacks' around the world?
De Klerk was merely a footnote in South African history
The late South African politician tried and failed to leave a meaningful mark along South Africa's democratic path.
Zimbabwe is set on tackling climate change
But to have a chance at making a difference, it needs sanctions imposed by the West to be lifted.
US and Turkey: It is not over yet
US-Turkish relations are tense but it is too early to talk of decoupling.
The Global South does not need debt. We need climate justice
Dear world leaders, we do not need words or debt, but reparations.
The COP26 deal will not be enough to end SA’s coal addiction
The amount offered by rich nations is nowhere near sufficient to ease South Africa’s concerns about decarbonisation.
Hollywood Orientalism is not about the Arab world
It is about the American world.
What can the UN do for Afghanistan now?
Given the reluctance to recognise the Taliban government, the UN can play central role in mitigating the Afghan crisis.
Justice denied for the victims of Afghanistan’s Mai Lai massacre
The US military killed civilians, lied about it, was caught and still exonerated itself.
One more body in the septic tank that is British colonial history
The killing of Agnes Wanjiru - and the Kenyan state's inability bring her killer to justice - is not an anomaly.
Bosnia’s disillusionment with the EU is dangerous
The perceived EU disengagement with Bosnia is encouraging separatist politics.
On the death of my maternal grandmother: an anti-obituary
When people die, sometimes it is OK to say ‘good riddance’.