Sep 25, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
Despite some initial sabre-rattling after Hong Kong’s current upsurge of anger turned violent on July First, Chinese military assets will evidently not be moving into town any time soon. Local law enforcement has risen to the challenge and learned how to crack heads,...
Sep 19, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
The summer of 2019 has been like no other in living memory. But of all the unprecedented protest events, the most audacious was the assault by masked black-clad young protesters on Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building. After several attempts, they finally...
Sep 6, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong, Uncategorized
Can this end well? It might, depending on what “this” and “well” mean. The question also has two dimensions: one local, the other national. DEFINITIONS If “this” refers only to Hong Kong’s upsurge of public anger over the local government’s attempt...
Aug 27, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
When faced with an intractable problem of community concern, the favourite response of civil servants here is the time-honored delaying tactic of “discussion.” Sometimes, if the problem is important enough, the authorities might even launch a formal public...
Aug 7, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
Officials are no doubt trying to think what else they can do to eliminate his influence. But even though political life has now been reduced to a mere shadow of what Hong Kongers once hoped it might be under Chinese post-colonial rule, Beijing’s “one-country,...
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