(Originally published here by South China Morning Post.) Former White House adviser Steve Bannon made a splash in Washington last week with his call to brand those who have profited from business relationships with China as traitors. The audience at the event erupted in cheers, not surprising given that it was comprised mainly of members [...]
Author: Robert F. Delaney
New York- and Toronto-based U.S. Bureau Chief for the South China Morning Post, and author of The Wounded Muse.
If friends of Huawei want to hit the US where it hurts, they should tackle the legitimacy of US sanctions
(Originally published here by South China Morning Post on April 2, 2019.) In the final stage of Patrick Ho Chi-ping’s bribery trial in New York last week, the prosecution held back, the judge doled out a lenient sentence, and the convicted man made a tearful apology. The sentencing of Hong Kong’s former home affairs secretary [...]
A Donald Trump who’s sceptical of tech and Boeing is a friend of China
(Originally published here by South China Morning Post.) In the torrent of heartbreaking news last week, perhaps the only silver lining was that none of it was created by a Donald Trump executive order. Leave aside the US president’s denial that the massacre in Christchurch was part of a rise in white nationalism, and we can [...]
Stumbles over Meng Wanzhou’s arrest won’t help the US case against Huawei
(Originally published here by South China Morning Post.) As Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced an onslaught of political attacks last week over accusations of back-room dealing, Beijing piled on the pressure. When a member of China’s state-owned press questioned Canada’s judicial independence in light of accusations that Trudeau tried to interfere with a judicial [...]
China shouldn’t celebrate if Donald Trump loses his border wall battle – his successor may be even harder on Beijing
(Originally published here by South China Morning Post.) Of all of the cuts Donald Trump has invited by declaring a national emergency to fund a border wall between the United States and Mexico, The Wall Street Journal’s might be the deepest. Citing former US Supreme Court chief justice Robert Jackson, the newspaper’s editorial board pointed out that “a president’s power is [...]
What my mother’s changing fears about China say about Sino-US relations
(Originally published by South China Morning Post on January 27, 2019) “Did you see state dept warning about going to China? Maybe re-think plans to travel there esp since you are a journalist. Love, mom.” I woke to this text a few days before my annual trip to Hong Kong, where I would be reconnecting [...]
Translating High-Profile Events into Fiction
(This piece was first published by Writer's Digest on January, 19 2019.) My friend disappeared when I was living in Beijing. Hao had been living in the city for about a year, working on a documentary about underground Christian congregations in China. The project attracted the attention of the country’s state security officials, and when [...]
