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Stuart Lau

Stuart Lau is a Brussels-based journalist specialising in geopolitics, NATO and Indo-Pacific issues. He has worked for Politico, BBC News, the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, and the South China Morning Post.

Articles by Stuart Lau (9)

Stuart Lau 15 Apr 2025

Xi and Putin drive Japan and NATO closer together

Tokyo wants to learn more about Russia’s tactics in preparation of potential conflicts with China, while NATO eyes Japan’s defence industry.
Stuart Lau 27 Mar 2025

JD Vance lays bare Europe scepticism ahead of Greenland trip

Traditionally staunch US allies worry at a transatlantic break-down with Ukraine a further casualty.
Stuart Lau 29 Apr 2019

Tsai wins US sympathy, but what about Taiwan’s voters?

Taiwan’s President portrays herself as the only reliable choice against an assertive China.
Stuart Lau 30 Nov 2018

Wang Qishan and China’s charm offensive against US trade war

China’s vice-president and right-hand man to Xi Jinping is known as “China’s firefighter” and is playing a key role.
Stuart Lau 29 Oct 2018

With Trump in Mind, China Realigns

America's anti-China trade policies are compelling China to realign.
Stuart Lau 5 Oct 2018

“Chinese rice bowl!” Backing state-run enterprise

Xi Jinping toured northeast China to assure troubled conglomerates and push self-reliance in the face of a US trade war.
Stuart Lau 19 Sep 2018

Taiwan: the lonely winter

China aims to cut Taiwan off from Japan, as well as backing from the Vatican, to ensure the island is out in the cold.
Stuart Lau 11 Sep 2018

China’s trans-Himalayan tango with Nepal

After Doklam, confrontation has given way to economic contest, and perhaps the real China-India rivalry is yet to start.
Stuart Lau 16 Aug 2018

China takes on Hong Kong’s press club

Hosting a fringe party leader promoting Hong Kong independence drew Beijing’s ire.