(Photo Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty Images via ChinaFile) I’m part of the new ChinaFile discussion: What Does Hong Kong’s Post-Protest Report Signal For Relations with Beijing? The full discussion is here. My contribution is also below: Sino-Hong Kong relations urgently need one thing to salve the ills of today and ensure a better tomorrow, and that is..
My latest thoughts on Hong Kong are in the new ChınaFile debate here. My contribution — No one who lived through China in 1989 emerged unscarred. Beijing residents learned their government and army would do anything to keep the Communist Party in power. Hong Kongers learned that their post-colonial future suddenly looked more ominous. Journalists, like myself,..
I’ve contributed my thoughts to a new ChinaFile debate on Hong Kong. The full debate is here. My contribution: Hong Kong’s tragedy is that its political consciousness began to awaken precisely at the time when its leverage with China was at its lowest ebb. Where once China needed Hong Kong as an entrepôt,..
