Jan 7, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Jan. 7, 2011 For all the disagreement about how to realize them, Hong Kong’s democracy movement is united in its ideals and its respect for those who dedicate their lives to the cause at whatever cost. Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Shaobo is...
Dec 13, 2010 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Dec. 13, 2010 Hong Kong may have succeeded in bringing pressure to bear for tainted-milk hero Zhao Lianhai, but protesting the imprisonment of democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo has so far earned only a different kind of attention from the powers...
Dec 6, 2010 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Dec. 6, 2010 (A January 3, 2011 update on the Zhao Lianhai case is appended to this December 6, 2010 post) Hong Kong’s democracy movement may be faction-ridden and unable to agree on what kind of universal suffrage elections it wants or where these...
Nov 15, 2010 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Nov. 15, 2010 Everyone knew it was too good to last. A new day seemed to be dawning after the two “radical” sponsors of last May’s protest referendum settled a potential point of conflict with scarcely a murmur of discontent. At issue was...
Nov 1, 2010 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Nov. 1, 2010 Hong Kong may not have a democratically-elected government, but in recent years many familiar sights and sounds have taken hold. These date especially from the 1990s when the last British governor, Christopher Patten (1992-1997),...
Oct 8, 2010 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Oct. 8, 2010 Just as the dynamics of Hong Kong’s political reform debate progressed among democrats throughout the summer, so too did a countervailing force that has worked against their movement and its forerunners for a hundred years. Since...
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