China Books Review • 4th April 2024 In-Between City Book review of "Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong" by Vaudine England.
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.