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Andy Mok: Is space the final frontier with Chinese characteristics?
China reached another important milestone earlier this month when three taikonauts aboard the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft docked with the Tianhe, the core module of the Tiangong space station, a modular orbiting platform that will be completed in 2022.
June 27 , 2021 -
Andy Mok: FCC ban of Chinese surveillance equipment may further erode U.S. government trust
According to a Pew Research Center study released last year, just 20 percent of U.S. adults say they trust the government in Washington to "do the right thing" just about always or most of the time. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) recent plan to ban Chinese surveillance equipment from Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. , Dahua Technology Co. and others will raise costs and create unnecessary problems and safety gaps for schools, police departments and other vital institutions across the United States.
June 23 , 2021 -
Laurence Brahm: The spirit of China-We shall overcome
Throughout China's past four decades of rapid economic growth, it has met the challenges of alleviating poverty and promoting education and economic advancement with unprecedented achievement. To a great extent, this has been achieved on the basis of unity among China's unique population that includes 55 ethnic minorities.
June 16 , 2021 -
Harvey Dzodin: US’ scheme at G7 meeting only divides allies
And it will not be easy to implement even the generalized areas of the agreement to counter China, which are more like wish-lists than concrete plans with funded commitments.
June 16 , 2021 -
Harvey Dzodin: The coming apart of US
As an American, I was reluctant to admit that my country was coming apart at the seams, even after Trump, but now the straw that broke the camel’s back came with the revelation that Arizona has decided to execute convicted criminals in a gas chamber powered by the same chemical, hydrogen cyanide known as Zyklon B, that resulted in millions of deaths of Jews, gays, gypsies, disabled people and others at the hands of Adolph Hitler and his Nazi henchmen in the 1940s, most notably at the Auschwitz death camp.
June 10 , 2021 -
[CGTN] Andy Mok: Addressing China’s population challenge will require both proven and imaginative new approaches
China has successfully mastered complex policy challenges in the past, but this demographic challenge may be one of the most complexes it has ever faced since successfully addressing these issues require both proven policy approaches as well as the imaginative creation of entirely new ones involving both theory and practice that must be applied in a much more diverse and complex society.
June 03 , 2021 -
[SCMP] Wang Huiyao: 20 Years Anniversary of China Joining WTO and Its Impact
Twenty years after accession, China is well placed to use its heft in the WTO constructively to help retool the organisation and revive the multilateral trade agenda for the post-pandemic era.
May 25 , 2021
