Antony Dapiran

South China Morning Post • 27th May 2021

Defying the Dragon: Stephen Vines examines two turbulent years in Hong Kong and China’s standing in the world

Book Review: "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" by Stephen Vines

New Statesman • 12th January 2021

How international events emboldened China’s latest Hong Kong crackdown

Beijing's new round of mass arrests in the territory is a bid to end opposition politics.

Mekong Review • 10th January 2021

Losing hope

Personal reflections on mass arrests in Hong Kong, and the aftermath of a moment of hope.

LARB China Channel • 11th December 2020

Hong Kong’s Protest of Enchantment

How the soft power of Hong Kong's democracy movement is still alive. Based on extracts from City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong.

LARB China Channel • 8th December 2020

Hong Kong: Shock Therapy

Review of "Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong", edited by Holmes Chan.

Mekong Review • 13th November 2020

The takeover

Review of "Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law" by Michael C. Davis

Inside Story • 14th August 2020

Hong Kong’s ever-adaptable dissenters

The city’s protesters are using unconventional methods to navigate a legal minefield.

New Statesman • 13th August 2020

Under siege: why Hong Kong’s press remains defiant

In the wake of a media crackdown by the authorities, Hong Kongers have rallied in support of a pro-democracy newspaper.

Asialink Insights • 29th July 2020

Hong Kong, PRC: The world needs to come to terms with Hong Kong’s new reality

Hong Kong has a new ‘Party Secretary’, a new all-powerful government agency, and a new basis to charge the opposition as terrorists. The National Security Law effectively replicates in Hong Kong the same Party and government structure that exists in the rest of China – and the implications are profound.

Inside Story • 9th July 2020

Hong Kong’s second handover

China’s new security law makes life near impossible for the territory’s pan-democrats

Bloomberg Opinion • 9th July 2020

Is Business About to Get Harder in Hong Kong?

Uncertainty about the implications a new law could undermine the city’s hard-won status as an international legal center.

Ninth Letter • 10th June 2020

City of Tears

An excerpt from my book, "City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong", published in the journal Ninth Letter.

The Guardian • 2nd June 2020

Hong Kong's own leaders have sacrificed its autonomy

If Hong Kong has become a pawn between the US and China, it is because Carrie Lam and her government have allowed it.

Coda • 2nd June 2020

No place for Tiananmen vigil in China's new Hong Kong

Days after China moved to enact new security laws, Hong Kong’s police refused permission for an annual vigil honoring the victims of the Tiananmen Square protests.

New Statesman • 28th May 2020

Is China aiming to break the spirit of Hong Kong’s democrats?

The new national security law threatens Hong Kong’s autonomy and way of life.

Foreign Policy • 22nd April 2020

The Pandemic Is Cover for a Crackdown in Hong Kong

The gap between the mainland and the city is closing fast.

i-news • 9th April 2020

Hong Kong's coronavirus lockdown is merely the calm before another protest storm

Hong Kong stands at a crossroads, its people emboldened by last year’s protests and infuriated by government culpability for the virus.

Quartz • 20th December 2019

What do we call Hong Kong’s nameless “2019 protests” in 2020?

As Hong Kong’s protest movement passed the six-month mark and the year drew to a close, the question of what name to give a movement that began in June 2019 becomes a vexed one for editors and reporters, academics, and commentators.

New Statesman • 19th November 2019

The week Beijing let Hong Kong burn

In the most chaotic week since the current anti-government protest movement began almost six months ago, the city’s streets were lit with burning barricades, petrol bombs hurled at police lines, and cars torched. Hong Kong this week feels a city balanced on the edge of a precipice.

Mekong Review • 4th November 2019

Hong Kong Burning

A "protest diary" of Hong Kong's Summer of Discontent.