Understanding the elections in Taiwan The main, Western-backed separatist party has returned to power – but with a smaller majority, thanks in part to the emergence of a ‘third camp’ sitting between full independence and reunification with China, explains KENNY COYLE
Tuesday 27th Apr 2021 The Myanmar coup and Aung San Suu Kyi In this second part of the Morning Star’s exclusive interview with a spokesman from the Communist Party of Burma, KENNY COYLE asks how they analyse the roots of the conflict between the military elite and the National League for Democracy
Monday 26th Apr 2021 Myanmar’s communists speak out on the coup In the first of a two-part series KENNY COYLE interviews the Communist Party of Burma about the social and economic mismanagement of the military regime
Tuesday 27th Oct 2020 Shenzhen – 40 years of radical growth As the Chinese Communist Party central committee meets to discuss the next Five Year Plan, KENNY COYLE takes a look at the extraordinary success of what is today a dynamic megacity and home to many of China’s cutting-edge companies
Sunday 21st Jun 2020 Edward Snowden and the Hong Kong crisis When the tell-all US spy fled to Hong Kong to expose the unprecedented illegal monitoring he had been party to, he also revealed that the Chinese territory itself was being targeted — no wonder Beijing is now closing these loopholes, writes KENNY COYLE
Wednesday 10th Jun 2020 Hong Kong: cross-party support for imperialism What should we make of the new declaration from the British political elite that as a 'former colonial power' it must intervene on the Chinese island, asks KENNY COYLE
Monday 25th May 2020 ‘Blame China, praise Taiwan’ - what's behind the strange narrative of Western powers? The West is irrationally elevating the Chinese island’s response to the outbreak above its neighbour's purely to score political points, explains KENNY COYLE
Books Thursday 22nd Apr 2021 Books Killing Communists in Havana: The Start of the Cold War in Latin America by Steve Cushion Concise study of anti-communism in Cuba and beyond in the 1940s
Monday 15th Jul 2019 A faded empire strikes back The cynical Tory-led campaign on Hong Kong and the neocolonial propaganda of the corporate media must be firmly pushed back, argues KENNY COYLE
Sunday 07th Jul 2019 Hong Kong opposition and the Trump administration Is it just coincidence that the Extradition Bill emerged in the middle of a US trade war with China, asks KENNY COYLE
Tuesday 02nd Jul 2019 Hong Kong and the politics of extradition KENNY COYLE explains how the Hong Kong protests came about and how chief executive Carrie Lam’s botched legislation has inflamed the situation