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Talking Post is a new show from the South China Morning Post, featuring conversations with people who matter to help you to understand what’s important in today’s world of fast-paced news. Using his decades-long experience interviewing and commentating in both the television and newspaper industries, the Post’s chief news editor Yonden Lhatoo goes beyond the news to engage professionals and personalities in dialogue covering Chinese, Asia-pacific and global affairs.
Season two of Talking Post will launch with an exclusive interview with the incoming Hong Kong chief executive, John Lee Ka-chiu.
Post executive editor Chow Chung-yan and managing editor Yonden Lhatoo unpack Beijing’s biggest annual plenary event.
Jane Goodall praises China’s conservation of giant pandas and its environmental record, and explains why she remains hopeful that climate change can be slowed.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why he sees China and the US as ‘frenemies’ in their space race, and weighs in on God, aliens, and flat-Earthers.
From policeman to politician, Hong Kong’s incoming chief executive John Lee has his work cut out for him when he takes office on July 1, 2022. In an exclusive interview kicking off the new season of Talking Post with SCMP chief news editor Yonden Lhatoo, Lee promises a more aggressive approach to countering “fearmongering and bad-mouthing” by the city’s critics, and reveals plans for a possible easing of tough Covid-19 restrictions.
Speaking with the Post, Leung says Hong Kong has been ‘sleeping’ while mainland China learned to trade with the rest of world.
In a wide-ranging interview with Talking Post, chief executive maintains her administration is firmly in charge of running the city and says challenges brought by social unrest only made her stronger.
In Talking Post, futurist Kaku says the Chinese space programme should be commended and predicts a democratisation of space travel when mum-and-dad tourists take off.
