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Opinion | TikTok, America turns back the clock

America's dirty shoe has finally dropped. By a vote of 352 to 65, or 81% of congress members, US legislators have decided to kill off TikTok. The bill gives its Beijing-based owner ByteDance six months to find a buyer or face a ban in America. TikTok's days look numbered. The pretext is national security. The subtext is its Chinese ownership.

Opinion | Come on, Ambassador Burns, take a Viagara or two

I am getting worried about your health. You never seemed to smile. Since coming to China as US ambassador, you have been wearing a permanent scowl. From time to time, you spout fantastical theories about the China Threat. Only the other day, you swore that the US would never accept living in a world dominated by China, with its Chinese values. China dominating and ideologically brainwashing the world? You are living in Alice's Wonderland. China is no monster, and the US is no saint.

Opinion | The Gaza Genocide—the beginning of the end of the American era

There are no winners in the Gaza war. The biggest loser is of course the Palestinians, dismissed as "children of a lesser god". Their pathetic lives are worthless in the eyes of Israeli and American decision-makers.

Opinion | The Ugly American is a twin brother to the Ignorant American

There is an epidemic of ignorance cross-contaminating the disease of idiocy in America. I can easily relate to Charles Pierce's book title: "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free."

Opinion | A bitter lesson in Canadian democracy

"Go back to your country!" These words are poison to an immigrant. A vile white woman shouted at a long-time Chinese-Canadian resident to "Go back to Hong Kong", calling him unCanadian for rejecting the proposed injection site for drug addicts in Richmond—a topic that has dominated kitchen tables in local Canadian Chinese households.

Opinion | Thank you Leo Messi—for uniting Hong Kong

Thank you Leo Messi. You have managed to unite a divided city against uncalled- for public humiliation. Your half-presence and non-participation in that non-game must surely go down as a moment unique in our history. Never has an event been so hyped, so fought-over, so eagerly anticipated and such a colossal anticlimactic letdown. Never has a slap to our face been so painful and so loud. It is a galactic PR disaster without parallel and without precedent.

Opinion | No more finger-pointing at China

The word "genocide" should be retired next to Xinjiang. It exists only in the murky minds of Western politicians out to tar-and-feather China.

Opinion | The Tyranny of Political Correctness: Misgoverned Canada goes downhill

Politicians and pundits in the West never tire of calling China a repressive society. But what if I told you that there is another form of repression far more tyrannical in how it operates. It is called political correctness, or wokeness. What is being woke? It is liberalism gone loony. Case in point, LGBTQ values have become aggressively mainstream in Canada. The prevailing climate of opinion sucks the oxygen out of freedom of expression on this matter.

Opinion | How to explain Donald Trump, an American Hitler in the Making

Trump is a phenomenon that appears only once in a thousand years. East or West, he is the most indicted, impeached and sued politician in history. The ultimate Teflon-don, he is utterly shameless and scandal-proof. Nothing ever sticks to him. A lesser politician would have been felled by one of his 91 indictments. But, unbelievably, Trump actually profits from his crimes, the more the merrier, as he laughs all the way to the bank with donations pouring in from his gullible supporters.

Opinion | What kind of people are the Chinese?

Take a sneak peek into the Chinese soul, and you will see that it is soaked in Confucian values, gentle on the outside and big-hearted on the inside. Since 1949, Communist teachings have stiffened their spine.

Opinion | The death of book stores and other heartbreaking changes in Hong Kong society

In my younger days, I harbored the dream of living an ideal life: being the proud owner of a book store, earning a comfortable living, breathing the books that I love. That dream is no longer viable. These days, on the subways and buses, it is a rarity to see passengers holding or reading a book or even a newspaper. Without exception, every dumb head is glued to the smart phone.

Opinion | Unshackle Europe from American foolishness

Europe's relations with China have been hijacked by America's Sino-phobia. For decades, Europe has been handcuffed to America's global agenda, often against its own interests. Trump makes no bones that America comes first. Europe is just an afterthought. He might even disband NATO altogether, and pursue his separate peace with Russia. Trump is practically living in Putin's pocket.

Opinion | What's wrong with Chinese education?

Statistically speaking, China has made a great leap forward in education. Thirty years ago, only 3.4% of its high school leavers graduated to a university education. Today, that figure is nudging 60%. This is a stupendous achievement but one that is fraught with problems: an exam-driven education has left graduates mismatched with the real needs of the marketplace.

Opinion | Gordon G. Chang: A China-hater, a self-hater and a fear-monger

Gordon G. Chang is touted as a China expert. He is not. In 2001 he hogged the headlines with a spectacular prediction that China would collapse in 2011. It did not. On the contrary, China has since become the world's second largest economy. That public error has not exposed him as a pseudo-expert nor dislodged him from the pulpit where he spouts similar China Armageddon predictions. He is a lousy tea-leaf reader, because his prophecies are just wishful thinking dressed up as objective analysis.

Opinion | Goddess of democracy or puberty puppet?

Politics isn't a teenager's playground. And yet in Hong Kong, it had become precisely that.
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