Hong Kong’s ever-adaptable dissenters
The city’s protesters are using unconventional methods to navigate a legal minefield.
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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.
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.
Hong Kong’s second handover
China’s new security law makes life near impossible for the territory’s pan-democrats
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.
City of Tears
An excerpt from my book, "City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong", published in the journal Ninth Letter.
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.
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.
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.
The Pandemic Is Cover for a Crackdown in Hong Kong
The gap between the mainland and the city is closing fast.
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.
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.
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.
Hong Kong Burning
A "protest diary" of Hong Kong's Summer of Discontent.
Singin' About A Revolution
The soundtrack of this year's Hong Kong protests marks a somber turn from the Umbrella Movement
‘The End of Hong Kong as We Know It’
Previous demonstrations in the city were colorful, hopeful, and exuberant. Rallies this summer have been more forlorn.
How Hong Kong's shopping malls became a new arena in the fight for democracy
In Hong Kong’s “shoppers’ paradise”, malls have become a key site for protests, exposing an age-old conflict between profit and principle.
The Hong Kong Way protest shows enchantment is a powerful weapon
Peaceful protests like this human chain help to counteract the violence and cynicism shrouding the city.
Beijing Is Shooting Its Own Foot in Hong Kong
Political paranoia is making it hard for the Chinese Communist Party to sell its own narrative.
Hong Kong: A city on the brink
Beijing appears set for a war of attrition, a war in which all of the tools of China’s state power are being brought to bear.
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