May 28, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: May 28, 2012 To say the long-running campaign for Western-style directly-elected representative government is essentially lost (May 14, 2012 post) is not to say the campaigners have surrendered. Since they refuse to admit defeat, and behave...
May 14, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: May 14, 2012 The guessing game continues but for now one of the two main questions surrounding Leung Chun-ying’s selection as Hong Kong’s next Chief Executive (April 25 post) is receding. Suspicions about his communist party membership have...
Apr 25, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: April. 25, 2012 The speculation that preceded his March 25th selection as Hong Kong’s next Chief Executive has continued unabated ever since. Winning candidate Leung Chun-ying remains as much a man of mystery one month later as he was during...
Mar 29, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: March 29, 2012 The biggest handicap for Hong Kong’s democracy movement has always been its lack of precedents and institutional memories. Before 1997, the colonial governing tradition was all about keeping democracy at bay and the tradition...
Mar 21, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: March 21, 2012 For the first time ever, politics among the power-brokers here is fun to watch, probably because lots more people are getting into the act than the small circle of 1,200 electors who will vote on March 25. This is thanks not only...
Mar 1, 2012 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: March 1, 2012 During the past 20 years, local democracy activists have used every argument they could think of to make the case for “genuine” universal suffrage elections. In response, people liked to joke that Beijing would never allow...
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