Opinion

Second-Freest Economy? Hong Kong’s Invisible Hand is the Communist Party

In Hong Kong, you cannot buy the books you want your children to read, sell the books you believe readers will enjoy, exchange loose coins for your

Poster child for the kowtow, Apple has generously accommodated the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the years: disabling an app that helped Hong

“Global markets are now flooded with cheaper Chinese electric cars,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen earlier this week. She

Summer heat may be receding in Taipei, but the temperature is certainly rising for the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), which, for much of the buildup to

It is just three years since China profiteered and held other countries over a barrel for medical equipment as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. With the

Step into one of Taipei’s mosaic of neighborhood parks after sundown and you can expect to see somebody — perhaps a hoard of people — feeding stray

Taiwan’s young people should “absorb all the good things about foreign countries and bring them back to help our country,” Democratic Progressive

BRICS may nominally be set to cover 46% of the global population with its invitation to Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United

Xi Jinping wants to censor his way out of another crisis, this time economic. With curated news, he hopes to blow a bubble of optimism in which the

Facial recognition is already a regular feature of the British high street, but its future is controversial. Currently, bans are limited to sensitive

The gamble has always been clear: The Chinese Communist Party bets greed. With copious evidence to back its standpoint and its own rapaciousness to

Hong Kong Police Force’s latest threats to overseas activists are straight from a forcible repatriation playbook that has been honed by China for