Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th August, 2019) Disturbing pictures obtained by The Mail on Sunday appear to show that China has secretly boosted its military deployment in […]
China / World
The Hong Kong protesters are scared but resolute even as a crackdown by China may loom
Published by The Washington Post (13th August, 2019) HONG KONG — As the hopes of the Arab Spring dissolved into brutality and chaos in 2011, I reported from […]
China / Politics / World
Democracy is under siege around the world
Published by The i paper (12th August, 2019) Once again, I am reporting on turbulent events in a place where ordinary people are risking their liberty to demand […]
China / World
The teenagers taking on the brutal tyranny of China
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th August, 2019) In their colourful T-shirts, cut-off denim shorts and carefully styled hair, the four female students look like countless other […]
China / World
Tear gas and triads
Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th August, 2019) Hong Kong last night descended into ugly scenes of confrontation for the ninth weekend in a row as armed […]
China / Politics / Technology / World
The debasing of democracy
Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th March, 2018) Back in those far off days before the internet consumed our world, a teenager from New York launched a […]
China / North Korea / South Korea / United States / World
So could North Korea’s cruel regime be next on the hit list?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th April, 2017) When Donald Trump sat down to dinner with China’s Xi Jinping in his garish golden palace of Mar-a-Lago in Florida […]
China / North Korea / United States / World
Donald Trump’s shock tactics on North Korea might just work
Published by The Guardian (3rd April, 2017) Song Byeok used to paint propaganda pictures for North Korea’s dictators. But when famine struck, his family was starving like millions […]
Africa / China / Europe / France / Germany / Iran / Lebanon / Nigeria / United States / World
Forget fear and loathing: 15 reasons to celebrate the world in 2015
Published by The Independent (28th December, 2015) Who will mourn the passing of 2015? It seems such a grim year filled with terrible tales of atrocities, extremism and […]
Arts / Books / China / United States / World
Sunny side up
Published in The Observer (February 23rd 2014) The Upside of Down by Charles Kenny (Basic Books) During the last United States presidential election, the then-rising Republican star Chris […]