My speech during England China Business Forum Annual Dinner on 7th February 2023 When England China Business Forum (ECBF) was established in early 2013, David Cameron visited China later in December, and Xi Xing Ping returned the favour in 2015. …

The celebration of a New Year to welcome spring is practised by many people in East and Southeast Asia. The celebration is usually referred as the Spring Festival in China. Chinese people and the Chinese diaspora generally greet each other with Happy New Year or Prosperous New Year (in Mandarin…

– a Commentary on the Rights and Wrongs of Both Sides — On Sunday 16th October, according to a statement by the Greater Manchester Police, the following incident happened. ‘Shortly before 4pm a small group of men came out of the building and a man was dragged into the consulate grounds and assaulted … Due to our fears for the safety of…

Speech given by Dr Yeow Poon during the Act of Hope and Remembrance at St Paul’s Cathedral during National Hate Crime Awareness Week. — (Also, posted in We Stand Together Against Racism (carguk.com)) Racism against people of Chinese, East and Southeast Asian heritage goes back to at least the 19th Century during the Opium Wars between the UK and China. The phrase Yellow Peril became popular and it was particularly bad in the period…

Back in March 2022, I was having a coffee with Bill, a very good friend, in Birmingham Chinatown. Given our shared interests around China, we started discussing our concerns at the mostly negative press on China from Western media. Bill then proposed that we write a book to promote better…

A Homage and Reflection — (This article first appeared as a blog in Chinese Liberal Democrats Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022) — A Homage and Reflection) As the Honorary President, on behalf of the Chinese, East and Southeast constituency that the Chinese Liberal Democrats represents, I wish to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II…

Prequel to Beginnings of Journeys He stood close to the edge. A few feet below him a continuous thunder of foaming water rushes by and plummets over the chasm. …

Is China a threat to the security and prosperity of an emerging multi-polar world or only to Western exceptionalism? — Following Tony Blair’s speech at the annual Ditchley Foundation lecture in mid-July[i], where he advocated higher military spending to defend Western values and way of life from China, came Sunak Rishi and Liz Truss outdoing each other in hard-line China rhetoric. …

In a multipolar world, should the West be strong enough to defend our values or strong enough to live up to our values? — The Guardian on 16th July 2022 published a PA Media article[1] on Tony Blair’s delivery of the 58th Ditchley Foundation Annual lecture. The title of his lecture was “After Ukraine, What Lessons Now for Western Leadership?” and his focus was on China[2]. “The biggest geopolitical change of this century will…