Oct 27, 2020 | Letters from Hong Kong
(Note: This article was first published in Hong Kong Free Press, under the title “How Judges Became the Last Front Line in the Battle for Hong Kong’s Freedoms,” on October 24 2020) Last June, when Beijing officials and their local representatives were preparing...
Oct 5, 2020 | Letters from Hong Kong
(Note: This is a revised version of the article originally published by Hong Kong Free Press on Oct. 3, 2020) Prospects looked bright for Hong Kong’s newly elected pro-democracy legislators as they debated among themselves the pros and cons of staging an inaugural...
Sep 21, 2020 | Letters from Hong Kong
(Note: This article was first published by Hong Kong Free Press, on 19 Sept. 2020) The new National Security Law was promulgated by Beijing and went into effect here on June 30. Demolition of Hong Kong’s democracy movement began soon after with the...
Aug 31, 2020 | Letters from Hong Kong, Uncategorized
(Note: This is an updated version of an article originally published in Hong Kong Free Press, on Aug. 30, 2020, under the title; “Two Months on from Hong Kong’s National Security Clampdown – the Developments So Far.”) A year ago, at this time, everyone was...
Aug 11, 2020 | Letters from Hong Kong
(Note: This article is out of chronological order. It should have been posted soon after it was published in Hong Kong Free Press, on June 25, 2020. Posted here and now “for the record.” See also the wordpress backup copy.) At last, Beijing officials are speaking...
Aug 10, 2020 | Letters from Hong Kong
(This article was first published in Hong Kong Free Press on August 9, 2020) Rarely has victory been transformed into defeat quite so quickly, but things move at high speed once Beijing takes charge. The watershed event was Hong Kong’s new national security law,...
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