Feb 18, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
It was exactly six years ago that Benny Tai added an unexpected political spark to the Lunar New Year holiday by introducing a new plan to break the political deadlock. He and his contemporaries had been agitating for democratic political reform since their college...
Jan 22, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
Hong Kong is learning what it means to live with mainland definitions of free speech and all its derivatives. Introducing the proposed new national anthem law, Secretary for Constitutional Affairs Patrick Nip told critical questioners they could still exercise their...
Jan 12, 2019 | Letters from Hong Kong
Everyone here has been celebrating … everyone, that is, whose sympathies are with Beijing, the Hong Kong Government, and all loyalist parties, unions, councils, committees, and the network of friendly associations that now extend throughout the territory. For them,...
Dec 28, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
We should perhaps spare a thought for Hong Kong officialdom … trapped as it is between Beijing’s current directives and the pre-1997 promises Beijing made about post-colonial Hong Kong being allowed to carry on “unchanged for 50 years.” The promises about existing...
Dec 13, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
Long ago, in the 1980s and 1990s when Hong Kong was preparing for the 1997 transfer from British back to Chinese rule, there was a basic question in many minds. The question was whether Hong Kong could be transformed into a democratically-governed city within the...
Nov 27, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
The main pro-establishment candidate won last Sunday’s special election in Kowloon West by a substantial margin, dealing a major blow to the hopes of her main competitor. The Legislative Council seat in question was an important prize for her chief opponent after the...
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