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Alex Lo

Pearls and Irritations

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Steadfast state support is key to China winning tech race with US

01.02.2026 5

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As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted

26.10.2025 10

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How anti-China witch hunts in Canada and the UK ruin lives

12.10.2025 10

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Our bravest journalists today are all working and dying in Gaza

16.08.2025 10

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The future of surveillance tech is already here – in the US, not China

25.07.2025 10

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A warning from the past about the United States of today

14.07.2025 10

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‘Strategic clarity’ over Taiwan is just so much American bombast

07.06.2025 10

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Closer ASEAN ties can help China counter US militarisation of region

23.05.2025 8

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Shell-shocked voters of US allies choose stability over disruption

11.05.2025 10

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The US is upset China wants to be self-reliant in producing chips

16.01.2025 10

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Trump has been Beijing’s most effective science talent recruiter

Many fear the supposedly defunct ‘China Initiative’ – a racial profiling programme targeting Chinese-born scientists in the US – could return...

29.12.2024 5

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