Dec 28, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
Further on that favorite question everyone was asking last July when Hong Kong was celebrating the 20th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule: the question was whether people should be optimistic or pessimistic about the future and what the next 20 years might...
Nov 30, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
The political scene in Hong Kong today, following President Xi’s 19th party congress confirmation of Beijing’s cross-border intentions, is reminiscent of events soon after the first big anti-Beijing protest march on July 1, 2003. That was when half-a-million people...
Nov 20, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
Everyone else saw the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), held in Beijing last month, as the culmination of Xi Jinping’s rise to power. By reason of the posts he holds and the dominate position he occupies, as President of the People’s Republic and...
Oct 23, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
China’s leaders have had a lot to say in recent months about Hong Kong: what they like and what they don’t, and what they want to do about it. The most authoritative version of the Hong Kong problem as Beijing sees it comes from the number one leader himself. Xi...
Oct 16, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
Hong Kong now has a new Chief Executive, duly selected last March and formally sworn into office by Chinese President Xi Jinping on July First. Having served her first 100 days in office, she delivered her first formal speech to the Legislative Council on October 11....
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