Articles by South China Morning Post

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China Builds as the USA Bombs: This Study Proves It
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

1 Feb 2024 – On Washington’s telling, Beijing is spreading authoritarianism through producing goods and building infrastructures as the US promotes freedom and democracy by bombing and selling weapons. Remember George Orwell? “War is peace. Ignorance is strength.” Reality is easily turned upside down.

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As China-Russia Economic and Diplomatic Ties Advance, Their Cultural Bond Flourishes with Ballet, Theatre and Music
South China Morning Post | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

29 Dec 2023 – As the Russian musical Anna Karenina is set to be staged in Shanghai and Beijing this month, theatre director Alina Chevik hopes to see how it can connect the two peoples at a time when Russian artists have been shunned in Western markets.

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Why Do Many Scientists Oppose Fukushima Radioactive Waste Discharge?
Victoria Bela | South China Morning Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

30 Aug 2023 – The release of treated waste water from the nuclear plant has begun, despite concerns from major scientific organisations. IAEA is monitoring the operation but many experts are questioning the amount of data being collected.

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‘This Is a War of Propaganda’
John Pilger | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

10 Jul 2022 – John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange: 20 minutes of truth… and a pretty sweet ending.

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Marcos Must Tread Cautiously as US and China Seek to Reset Ties with the Philippines
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III | South China Morning Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

10 Jul 2022 – As newly-inaugurated President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, son and namesake of the former Philippine strongman, begins forming his trade, security, and foreign policies, the United States and China are expected to seize the chance to reset ties amid a competing rivalry for influence.

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China’s Red Lines on Taiwan Are Clear Regardless of the US’ Policy of Strategic Ambiguity
Zhou Bo | South China Morning Post/Scheer Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022

10 Jul 2022 – In spite of Biden’s reiteration afterwards of US adherence to the “one China” policy, his apparent gaffe – the third in nine months – would seem to signal a burgeoning US policy of “strategic clarity”, a shift from its decades-old policy of “strategic ambiguity”.

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What’s in a Covid-19 Vaccine?
South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2021

Countries around the world are ramping up efforts to vaccinate their populations in a race to achieve herd immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But what exactly goes into each vial? How different are the components? Here’s what you need to know about the ingredients that make up the vaccines against Covid-19.

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Must the United States Demonise China?
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jun 2020

26 Jun 2020 – Simply existing as a prosperous power is enough to make China an enemy, which must be isolated, contained, if not destroyed, like a disease. Hong Kong is but another factor in this hegemonic calculus.

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How US Media Dish Out Their Own Propaganda on China and COVID-19
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2020

12 Apr 2020 – Their stereotypical framing of China’s actions against the pandemic verges on parody and caricature, portraying even innocent and uncontroversial measures in the most insidious light possible.

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Stay or Go? Hong Kong’s International Students Pack Their Bags amid Protest Chaos
John Power and Meaghan Tobin – South China Morning Post, 18 Nov 2019

13 Nov 2019
• Foreign students are being called home or face the agonising decision of whether to wait out the unrest
• Hundreds of mainland Chinese students are also fleeing, while Taiwan is evacuating 81 from Chinese University after campus clashes

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Blood Sutra: Whatever Happened to Buddhism, Religion of Peace and Compassion?
Paul Fuller – South China Morning Post, 25 Jun 2018

The emergence of radical groups like the MaBaTha that promote a Buddhism based on racial and national identity is fuelling violence across the region.

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How the Hague Ruling against China Could Spell Trouble for Japan
Julian Ryall – South China Morning Post, 18 Jul 2016

Japan has built structures on uninhabited rocks 1,740 km from Tokyo to mark its territory – just like China has done in the South China Sea. The Hague ruling completely delegitimises Japan’s claim to those waters. — Stephen Nagy

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Japanese Investigator Says Lessons of Fukushima Disaster Ignored
Kristine Kwok in Tokyo – South China Morning Post, 10 Mar 2014

8 Mar 2014 – According to the foundation’s research, the government and Tepco operated under the belief that nuclear plants were completely safe. Before the earthquake, government regulators and Tepco avoided addressing the potential risks because this would cause “unnecessary anxiety and misunderstanding” among the public, Funabashi wrote in a paper published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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