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America vs China, is why. The East is the Enemy. :)

• SeanLuke 12y ago
  It's true that the Kuok family, the current owners of the South China Morning Post, are somewhat pro-Beijing. But this isn't a chinese newspaper. It's an english-language Hong Kong newspaper, founded in 1903, with a strong tradition of british style journalism. I think that defect was used in exactly the same context as "so and so defected from Google to Microsoft".