Jun 11, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
On June 4, 1989 all eyes were focused on Beijing and the Chinese government’s use of the People’s Liberation Army to clear protesters from Tiananmen Square. They had been camped out there for weeks in an unprecedented show of student-led popular defiance....
May 23, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
Newly elected legislator Au Nok-hin 【 區諾軒 】 is looking at no end of trouble. He’s not alone. But he already has three major political strikes against him and he was only just elected in the special Legislative Council (LegCo) by-election on March 11. If Au...
May 11, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
Considering the course of events since Hong Kong’s last, 2016, Legislative Council election, it seems almost as though the pro-establishment majority would breathe a collective sigh of relief if they could turn the clock back to colonial days … to sometime...
Apr 25, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
Professor Benny Tai’s recent musings about a possible future democratic China and an independent Hong Kong, have produced a thunderous response from on high. But oddly enough, he has published the same views here in Hong Kong to no adverse effect whatsoever. On...
Apr 16, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
He’s back! Benny Tai is making waves again. No sooner had the Occupy protest effect finally faded than Professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting【戴耀廷】 sparked another important political controversy. This time it’s about free speech and the nature of dictatorship. Tai...
Mar 27, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
What happened? The post-Occupy effect evaporated, and the sympathy vote did not materialize. Hong Kong’s democracy activists had been expecting they would do well in the special by-election on March 11, and so did everyone else. The election was held to replace...
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