Published by The Spectator (6th January, 2024) Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy by Shibani […]
China / World
In sucking up to China, Sunak and Cleverly risk looking as obsequious and naive as Cameron and Osborne
Published by The Daily Mail (31st August, 2023) Eight years ago George Osborne, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, took a large delegation of business and cultural leaders to […]
China / World
Why do we kowtow to a vile dictatorship that covers up Covid’s origins, threatens Taiwan and carries out genocide?
Published by The Daily Mail (2nd May, 2023) As he flew back from the ceremonies marking the handover of Hong Kong to China in July 1997, the future […]
China / World
How Hong Kong was swallowed by the Chinese dragon
Published by The Daily Mail (30th June, 2022) For almost half a century, the glitzy Jumbo Floating Restaurant was one of Hong Kong’s best-known sights as it sat majestically […]
China / World
Orwellian repression is stamping out the last flickers of freedom in Hong Kong
Published by The Daily Mail (24th June, 2021) When Jimmy Lai was a child, he worked as a porter carrying bags for passengers at the railway station in […]
China / World
China’s Communists cannot gloss over their history
Published by The i paper (7th June, 2021) President Xi Jinping has declared that he wants to rebrand China as a ‘credible, lovable and respectable’ country that is […]
China / Covid19 / World
What a surprise: world health ‘experts’ have let China off the hook on Covid
Published by The Daily Mail (31st March, 2021) More than 420 days have passed since the World Health Organisation declared that a strange new disease killing people in […]
United States / World
The casual corrosion of democracy
Published by UnHerd ((5th November, 2020) Shortly before 10pm yesterday, I was wandering along the boarded up streets of Washington towards the White House. I passed people dancing […]
China / Covid19 / World
‘I had to flee my home and family to tell the world the truth about China’s cover-up before I became another of the disappeared’
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th August, 2020) When Li-Meng Yan was asked to pop into her boss’s office on the final day of last year, she […]
China / World
The hideous crushing of Hong Kong’s freedom is a victory for despots over democracy
Published by The Daily Mail (2nd July, 2020) The first arrest was a man clutching a black flag inscribed with the words ‘Hong Kong Independence’ in both English […]
China / Covid19 / World
How China is exploiting pandemic panic
Published by UnHerd (30th April, 2020) Who could argue with this statement on coronavirus made by Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, as pandemic rampages around the planet? ‘This […]
China / Taiwan / World
A victory for democracy in Taiwan
Published by The i paper (13th January, 2020) While the world has been transfixed by explosive events in Iran, an eruption has taken place in a small island […]