Opinion | When officials in drought-prone Chinese region got just deserts for student-places fraud

Opinion | When officials in drought-prone Chinese region got just deserts for student-places fraud

Last week, I wrote about the conviction of Singapore’s former minister of transport S. Iswaran for improperly obtaining valuables, a case that has shocked Singaporeans, who, like Hongkongers, do not tolerate corruption in the government and civil service. A case involving corruption in China in the late 18th century was so massive in scale that … Read more

Opinion | How Deng Xiaoping’s ‘one country, two systems’ dates back to 1957 in Tibet

Opinion | How Deng Xiaoping’s ‘one country, two systems’ dates back to 1957 in Tibet

Some 25 years before Deng Xiaoping first proposed “one country, two systems” as a creative political solution to facilitate Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau’s return to China, Mao Zedong tasked him with finding an answer to the Tibet issue. It was 1957, six years after Beijing and Lhasa signed the Seventeen-Point Agreement that confirmed Tibet … Read more