The China “Constrainment” Doctrine

LONDON – It is necessary to know some history in order to draw the right lessons from it. All too often, alleged parallels and similarities seem...

We Are Hong Kong

LONDON – In my final speech as Hong Kong’s governor on June 30, 1997, a few hours before I left the city on Britain’s royal yacht, I remarked...

The Lonesome Death of Hong Kong

Dealing with China After COVID-19

LONDON – With the coronavirus continuing its brutal global rampage, it takes a particular sort of malign genius to put the United States in the...

Truth and Viral Consequences

LONDON – Of all the challenges that humans have faced over millennia, disease has always been a particularly brutal and resourceful enemy. The...

Liberal Democracy and Its Enemies

LONDON – When the German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote that, “All power comes from the people,” he went on to ask the rather important...

Britain Enters the Unknown

LONDON – A history teacher at my school believed that every great event in the past should be approached on the basis of a tripartite analysis of...

How Truth Survived 2019

LONDON – “Truthiness,” a concept coined by the American comedian Stephen Colbert, involves saying things that you want to believe are true even...