Jun 19, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
(Originally published by the Japan Policy Research Institute as JPRI Occasional Paper No. 54, June 2017: http://jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op54.html ) In early May this year, Zhang Dejiang spent three days visiting the former...
Jun 8, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: June 8, 2017 Observers and onlookers keep asking if Hong Kong’s democracy movement is now in a state of terminal decline. They wonder how anything so diverse and fragmented can withstand the official barrage being laid down by the central and...
May 18, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: May 18, 2017 The political spotlight fell briefly this month on two cities half a world apart, to reflect contrasting images of Beijing’s Hong Kong dilemma. Washington D.C. and the former Portuguese colony of Macau make for unlikely partners in...
May 2, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: May 2, 2017 Beijing has so far not handed down any more ultimatums on Hong Kong’s political way forward. Official lines have been drawn with the August 31, 2014 decision on political reform and the November 7, 2016 interpretation of Hong Kong’s...
Apr 19, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: April 19, 2017 No one knew exactly what to expect from central government officials in Beijing when Hong Kong’s Occupy protest movement erupted on September 28, 2014 and went on to blockade major city thoroughfares for 79 days. The last of the...
Mar 27, 2017 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: March 27, 2017 This is the way they like it. Old loyalists said after Hong Kong’s 2014-15 election reform proposals were vetoed that if it was up to them, the proposals would never be resuscitated and reintroduced. They were supposed to fulfill...
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