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...
Mar 14, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
The post-Occupy sequence did not hold. That sequence linked Hong Kong voters with the pro-democracy activists who shut down major Hong Kong thoroughfares for over two months in a show of political defiance against Beijing. The grievance then, in 2014, was the central...
Feb 27, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
Since 1997 when Hong Kong’s new Basic Law mini-constitution went into effect, Chapter III on Fundamental Rights and Duties has held out the promise that permanent residents “shall have the right to vote and the right to stand for election” (Article...
Feb 12, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
The question will no doubt remain forever unanswered, but it should be asked all the same. If Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella-Occupy democracy movement had not registered so great an impact, and the protest over re-sentencing three young leaders had not reverberated...
Jan 30, 2018 | Letters from Hong Kong
The special by-election to replace four of six empty seats in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) is scheduled for March 11. But unless the government does a speedy rethink, one name will not be on the candidate lists. Agnes Chow Ting was the choice of all...
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