Jan 4, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Jan. 4, 2012 With the November District Councils election now an unhappy memory for Hong Kong democrats, attention has re-focused on the next (decidedly un-democratic) phase of its long drawn out 2011/12 election cycle. Here there are no jokes...
Dec 5, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Dec. 5, 2011 Of all the post-mortems conducted after the November 6th District Councils election, none have been more painful to watch than those done on the Civic Party. Painful not because party members fared so badly because they really...
Nov 14, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Nov. 14, 2011 … (updated Nov. 21) Sure enough, Hong Kong’s political battlefields are now littered with the bones of pro-democracy fighters who tried parachuting into other people’s territory despite the known risks. Radicals wanted to...
Oct 17, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Oct. 17, 2011 With only days to go before the November 6th District Councils election, nothing has happened to dispel the clouds looming for months over pan-democrats’ campaign efforts (Aug. 24 post). At the district level, democratic...
Sep 7, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Sept. 7, 2011 Nothing better illustrates the political distance that still exists between Beijing and Hong Kong than the August 16-18 visit of Vice-Premier Li Keqiang. From the 1980s when they had to begin thinking seriously about Hong Kong’s...
Aug 24, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Aug. 24, 2011 Hong Kong may not have an elected government but onlookers would never know it from the sights and sounds of August, heading into a year that will see four separate local contests. If one of the prerequisites for achieving...
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