Oct 19, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
November 25 is the next special election, scheduled to fill another of the seats vacated in the long-running oath-taking saga. A total of six legislators-elect were disqualified after Beijing unexpectedly stiffened the rules on oaths-of-office. The six, all democrats,...
Oct 10, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
Evidently the reassuring words from members of Hong Kong’s ruling establishment were not meant to be taken at face value. It’s getting to be a habit. The words followed a vociferous campaign spearheaded by former Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to...
Sep 26, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
Barrister, Executive Councillor, and veteran Hong Kong legal authority Ronny Tong Ka-wah is most indignant. The New York Times, he says, must be a very “strange” sort of newspaper. Strange, indeed. Many have aspired to see their names in print on the Times op-ed...
Sep 14, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
Book Review * FROM A BRITISH TO A CHINESE COLONY? Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover Edited by Gary Chi-hung Luk Berkeley, California: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2017. China Research Monograph; 75. The title is no...
Aug 27, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
No sooner had Hong Kong independence advocate Andy Chan Ho-tin finished his August 14 speech and answered the last question than the expected thunderclap sounded in the northern sky. It came first from the Hong Kong office of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and...
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