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Keith K C Hui is a Chinese University of Hong Kong graduate major in Government and Public Administration and the author of "Helmsman Ruler: China's Pragmatic Version of Plato's Ideal Political Succession System In The Republic" (2013).

• Why did Biden’s contain-China G7 dream burst so fast?

  By keith K C Hui on July 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  President Macron and Chancellor Merkel jointly held a direct talk with President Xi via video conferencing on July 5 Monday, merely four weeks after the release of the G7 communique (VOA 2021 June 13). As regards the two European leaders’… Read More ›

• Shanghai Extravagance, Silicon Valley Stoics, and US-China Agony

  By keith K C Hui on June 21, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Shanghai has just replaced Hong Kong as the ‘most expensive city’, according to Swiss private bank JuliusBär Group’s Global Wealth and Lifestyle Report 2021 (Juliusbaer.com 2021 Apr 8). By comparing Shanghai on the socialist mainland and HK as a champion… Read More ›

• Three notes on G7 Communique 2021 vs China

  By keith K C Hui on June 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  G7 meeting in Cornwall, UK 2021 (photo by Leon Neal/PA Media and captured from BBC

• This world has no rules-based order

  By keith K C Hui on May 24, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  “ … attacks against the rules-based order are intensifying … Let me be clear — the United States is not seeking to uphold this rules-based order to keep other nations down.   The international order we helped build and defend has… Read More ›

• Hong Kong press editorial: US Congress sort of declares war on China

  By keith K C Hui on April 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The ‘Strategic Competition Act of 2021’ passed through the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee by 21-1 on Apr 21 Wednesday.  The bill will very likely get approved by the 100-member Senate soon. This bill includes a boycott of the 2022… Read More ›

• ‘Don’t over-extend your Alaskan King Crab legs’, China tells the U.S.

  By keith K C Hui on March 21, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  At least five important points can be noted beyond the hostile exchange of words between the two sides during the Alaska meeting (BBC 2021 March 20 ‘US and China trade angry words at high-level Alaska talks’). First, Yang Jiechi, the… Read More ›

• Miao, Uyghur and Han Chinese get rich altogether

  By keith K C Hui on February 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  “Kung Hei Fat Choy!” (恭喜發財 spoken in Hong Kong Cantonese, i.e. Congratulations on making lots of money!) is the most common greeting during the Lunar New Year days among the Chinese people. China’s poverty alleviation mission was declared accomplished in… Read More ›

• EU’s sanity is the basis of the China-EU investment deal 2020

  By keith K C Hui on January 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The correct description of the Western reaction to the deal as “… greeted with a shrug by underwhelmed analysts” by a brilliant Jan 4 China News essay has exposed the understated insanity that many mainstream pundits remain ignorant and naïve… Read More ›

• Australia’s allies grabbing Australia’s lost market shares in China

  By keith K C Hui on December 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  At least 60 countries, many of them are Australia’s allies in the West, are taking advantages of the current Beijing-Canberra hostility, by bidding to increase their market shares in China in respect of beef, grape wine, lobster, coal, grains and… Read More ›

• NY Times discusses Beijing’s ‘first move’

  By keith K C Hui on November 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The New York Times explained why they published an article (NYT Nov 24) written by FU Ying, former vice-foreign minister of China (2009-13) as follows: “… Today, we are publishing an Op-Ed by Fu Ying, a government official in China,… Read More ›

• Beijing’s moves and lesson amid US post-election chaos

  By keith K C Hui on November 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  At least three moves have been made by Beijing in its anticipation of the U.S. post-election chaos and paralysis. On June 16, my essay “As ‘not-re-elected’ Trump may refuse to quit, Beijing is preparing for US chaos” suggested that Beijing… Read More ›

• The US-China digital currency competition

  By keith K C Hui on October 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  RMB200 digital cash was given freely to each of 50,000 consumers selected by a lottery in Shenzhen, mainland China, in early Oct as an experimental trial for use (Reuters Oct 19). Each consumer is given a ‘digital wallet’ with the… Read More ›

• Taiwan Strait’s change is also waiting for US presidential post-election chaos

  By keith K C Hui on October 7, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  A Taiwan Strait civil war is what Washington hopes for. A first gun shot from Taipei is what Beijing hopes for. A direct military participation from the U.S. is what Taipei hopes for. It is the waiting game all have… Read More ›

• ‘Foreign Affairs’ warns against US-China decoupling

  By keith K C Hui on September 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The influential journal Foreign Affairs 2020 Sept 16 came to my mailbox with these paragraphs: “… There is broad bipartisan support in Washington for taking a tougher approach to trade with China and reducing U.S. dependence on Chinese goods. But… Read More ›

• Mulan 2020: Women in key roles.

  By keith K C Hui on September 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Disney’s film ‘Mulan’ 2020 is a superb display of femininity. Niki Caro is now known as the first female director making a USD200+ million budget movie. Caro has proved she is not merely able to master the production of this… Read More ›

• Gold, Vaccine, and Chinese Renminbi/US Dollar

  By keith K C Hui on August 19, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “Gold prices rose through and $10 above the $2000 per ounce level in London trade Tuesday (Aug 18), peaking $65 below early August’s record spike ($2,075 on Aug 7) …” “Silver meantime outpaced gold prices once more, rising back above… Read More ›

• A new US tactic: Pompeo suggests to change CCP’s behavior

  By keith K C Hui on July 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “…And if we don’t act now, ultimately the CCP will erode our freedoms and subvert the rules-based order that our societies have worked so hard to build. “If we bend the knee now, our children’s children may be at the… Read More ›

• Deep in the Thucydides Trap, but US-China is far from a ‘hot’ war

  By keith K C Hui on July 20, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  The term ‘Thucydides Trap’ has become a hot topic after American political scientist Graham T. Allison published his book ‘Destined for War: Can America and China Escape the Thucydides Trap?’ in 2017. It suggests that a war is likely to… Read More ›

• Pyongyang helping Beijing strengthen ties with Seoul

  By keith K C Hui on July 8, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  North Korea kept its promise to dismantle its nuclear facilities but still the US refused to lift the economic sanctions. What was worse was that Washington did not allow Seoul to engage in normal trade with Pyongyang within the Korean… Read More ›

• As ‘not-re-elected’ Trump may refuse to quit, Beijing is preparing for US chaos

  By keith K C Hui on June 16, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  “… the military will escort Mr. Trump out of the White House if he loses the election and doesn’t leave …” said Joe Biden when being asked about such a scenario (CBS News June 11). Do not be so naïve… Read More ›

• Meritocracy: from China to worldwide in the 21st Century

  By keith K C Hui on June 3, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  At the end of my 2019 Sept 11 China News post ‘Mooncake and China’s ascending culture’, I said “… I will start a series of articles explaining the nature of the present regime in China, so as to let readers… Read More ›

• What next after US sanctions China’s Hong Kong SAR?

  By keith K C Hui on May 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Washington has been deadly sure to sanction China in certain way (Bloomberg May 26). While the COVID-19 pandemic may not be a sufficiently justified excuse, Beijing’s move to enact a national security law (Guardian May 28) for its Hong Kong… Read More ›

• How could the isolated post-pandemic China survive?

  By keith K C Hui on May 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Both COVID-19 and political tensions will obstruct cross-border human traffic as well as civilian purchases in the coming, at least, two years. Realistically speaking, for example, Chinese tourists will be much less welcome in the retail streets of the ANZ,… Read More ›

• UK Lancet Editor: ‘unfair to blame China for COVID-19’

  By keith K C Hui on May 3, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the renowned medical journal The Lancet said on May 1 Friday during an interview by CCTV that “China isn’t responsible for this pandemic. It’s happened.” “… saying that while it is important to understand the… Read More ›

• Can China recover faster and better after Coronavirus ?

  By keith K C Hui on April 20, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  The Plague of Athens (429-426 BC), probably an outbreak of smallpox or typhus after the arrival of a ship from Ethiopia, claimed between 75,000 to 100,000 lives in the city-state. Yet, Athens managed to survive after the Peloponnesian War (431-404… Read More ›

• ‘China Shock’ 2.0 is haunting the U.S.

  By keith K C Hui on September 25, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The China Shock Doctrine’, written by Samual Hammond and published in The American Enterprise Institute’s National Affairs Issue Number 41 – Fall 2019, is a nearly 5,000 words long essay on how the United States was shocked by China’s success… Read More ›

• Saudi oil attack cultivates a critical juncture for China to play a role

  By keith K C Hui on September 18, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The Sep 14 Saudi Arabia oil attack exposed at least three issues. First, Saudi is highly vulnerable. It seems there is a lack of sufficient military capacities of detecting intrusion, becoming alert to attack timely, and taking immediate reactions to… Read More ›

• Mooncake and China’s ascending culture

  By keith K C Hui on September 11, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Like turkey for Thanksgiving Day, mooncake for the full-moon Mid-Autumn Festival in China is a must. It is dated on the 15th day of August in Lunar Calendar (Sep 13 Friday, this year 2019). Its meaning is more than family… Read More ›

• Obama’s ‘first film’ is too late to soften US-China antagonism

  By keith K C Hui on September 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  This film documents what happened to an Ohio General Motors plant that closed after the 2008 financial crisis and was later bought by a Chinese company. Its name is ‘American Factory’. CBS News reported that it is the “first documentary… Read More ›

• John Pilger warns a West-China ‘war situation’ is developing

  By keith K C Hui on August 28, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  “World War 3: The West is already at war with Russia and China”, warns John Pilger (1939- ), two times ‘Journalist of the Year’ 1967 and 1979 (British Press Awards), ‘International Reporter of the Year 1970’ (Society of Editors), and… Read More ›

• A quick look at Dalio’s warning of US T-Bond weaponization by China

  By keith K C Hui on August 21, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  World’s largest hedge fund manager, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater, said “he wouldn’t rule out China using its Treasury holdings to gain an upper hand against the U.S, in the trade war — a view that contrasts with many other observers… Read More ›

• Assuming Versace, Coach and Givenchy are simply careless, it still matters to China

  By keith K C Hui on August 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “…This weekend, all three companies (Givenchy, Coach, and Versace) apologized to Chinese customers after backlash over inaccurate T-shirt designs… “Between Sunday night and early Monday morning, both Givenchy and Coach issued apologies after social media users called for a boycott… Read More ›

• Why Myanmar prefers China to the West

  By keith K C Hui on August 6, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  In early August 2019, Myanmar proudly celebrated their first domestically produced car. The manufacturer, which is a China-Myanmar joint venture, can produce 5,000 local brand vehicles a year. On Sep 18, 2012, when Hillary Clinton, the then US Secretary of… Read More ›

• China joins Russia and allies experimenting blockchain tech to dethrone USD

  By keith K C Hui on July 31, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  “China, Iran, Venezuela are developing crypto in effort to dethrone US”, reported by Yahoo Finance on July 11, quoting a report published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). Cryptocurrency is a medium of exchange in digital form, and… Read More ›

• UK-China relations depends on tactics Boris Johnson will adopt

  By keith K C Hui on July 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The prospect of the UK-China relation, according to the analysis of the ‘UK in a Changing Europe’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and based at King’s College London, is that: “ … the UK will be left… Read More ›

• Southeast Asia overtook US as China’s 2nd major trade partner, and why it matters

  By keith K C Hui on July 17, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  “The U.S. is losing importance as a trading partner of China as their tariff war drags on, dropping a notch to third place in the first half of 2019 to trail the European Union and Southeast Asia…” reported by Nikkei… Read More ›

• US’ Bible shortage (caused by Trump’s tariff) reminds the world of CCP’s Marxist doctrine

  By keith K C Hui on July 10, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  ‘USA Today’ reported on July 8: “… Religious publishers say President Donald Trump’s most recent proposed tariffs on Chinese imports could result in a Bible shortage. That’s because millions of Bibles – some estimates put it at 150 million or… Read More ›

• Africa News explains why Africa will choose Huawei

  By keith K C Hui on July 3, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  Africanews’ June 6 article “Why Africa will choose Beijing in ongoing US-China trade war” provides valuable information to support my May 22 comment here that Africans have a decisive role in shaping Huawei’s global future. “… Much of the continent’s… Read More ›

• China-Japan relations won’t be altered by Trump’s ridiculous ‘unfair military alliance’ remark

  By keith K C Hui on June 26, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Tokyo (and probably the whole world) was shocked when Bloomberg News reported on June 25 that: “President Donald Trump has recently mused to confidants about withdrawing from a longstanding defense treaty with Japan, according to three people familiar with the… Read More ›

• Science journal ‘Nature’ says Chinese investments fuel growth in African science

  By keith K C Hui on June 19, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  “… US hegemony is the result of objective material conditions … the perpetuation of US primacy is a matter of policy …” (Layne 2006, p.12) It is one of the most academically known conceptions about ‘Hegemony’ stipulated by Christopher Layne… Read More ›

• Canada is the second to suffer from China’s plastic waste import ban

  By keith K C Hui on June 12, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  “… ‘It was like an earthquake,’ Arnaud Brunet, director general of Brussels-based industry group The Bureau of International Recycling, said…” reported by AFP on Jan 21, 2018. It was a response to China’s official ban of plastic waste import with… Read More ›

• The Regan-Liu (Fox-CGTN) Debate did have winners

  By keith K C Hui on June 5, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The essay title “A debate with no winner” was used to describe the “first time in history” TV live debate between Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan and China Global TV Network (CGTN)’s Liu Xin by The Star Online on June… Read More ›

• US-China ‘trade’ war, if not ended soon, may spill over to ‘finance’

  By keith K C Hui on May 29, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  “On the international monetary front, the key problem was the acute dollar shortage in post-war Europe … In the effort to reconstruct a viable Western Europe, the United States conceded degrees of protection and discrimination in trade that were incompatible… Read More ›

• Huawei’s global future? Africans have a decisive role

  By keith K C Hui on May 22, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  After being cut off by service providers like Google and hardware suppliers including Intel, Qualcomm and Xilinx, Huawei’s future in the OECD countries is definitely dim. Populous Asian countries like India, Indonesia and the Philippines, with sizable markets, will probably… Read More ›

• China’s top negotiator underperformed his job in the China-US trade talk

  By keith K C Hui on May 15, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Liu He, China’s Vice Premier and the top negotiator for the current China-US trade talk, did not do his job good enough as he either said too much yes during the face-to-face talks, or significantly underestimated the ultimate terms, including… Read More ›

• Managing TikTok Internet app is the first global test to China’s cultural power

  By keith K C Hui on May 8, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Beijing-based TikTok “added approximately 13.2 million new users [in] the United States during Q1[2019]…” reported on April 10 by the Mobile App Store marketing intelligence agent Sensor Tower. If you do not know what TikTok is, this Influencer Marketing… Read More ›

• Ukraine’s Stepan Kubiv proposes a China-EU corridor via Ukraine

  By keith K C Hui on May 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Stepan Kubiv, the First Deputy PM of Ukraine, while attending the Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing on April 25, “offered” to build a logistics corridor to link China and the EU through Ukraine. Just 4 days before this… Read More ›

• US using Iran to punish China for supporting Venezuela

  By keith K C Hui on April 24, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The Trump administration announced on April 22 that “buyers of Iranian oil must stop purchases by May 1 or face sanctions …” reported by CNBC on April 23. “The move, which took many market participants by surprise, ends six months… Read More ›

• Chinese netizens’ response to the Notre Dame fire and the meaning of ‘freedom’

  By keith K C Hui on April 17, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  In China, “ … the trending Weibo hashtag #NotreDameCathedralLargeFire (#巴黎圣母院大火#) has been followed over 1.2 billion times, and over 500,000 netizens are discussing the topic ….” as reported by an April 16 article published on Thatsmags.com, most of the Chinese… Read More ›

• RAND: “Russia can be contained, but China cannot.” Really?

  By keith K C Hui on April 10, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  A recent research conducted by RAND Army Research Division says that “Russia is not a peer or near-peer competitor but rather a well-armed rogue state that seeks to subvert an international order it can never hope to dominate. In contrast,… Read More ›