Category Archives: Blog

Commentary from Bloomberg on a possible New Year’s resolution for UK (and other) policymakers, referencing the book All That Glitters by Martin Thorley… Again and again, parties that appear independent and self-interested on the surface turn out to have connections … Continue reading →

After Hong Kong starts allowing up to 100 private cars a day to enter the city from the Mainland, a lawmaker complains that some are breaking local rules on tinted windows. That’s not the worst of it. Social media now … Continue reading →

Not a great holiday season for the man in his 70s who was badly injured in Yuen Long on Saturday when – walking on a sidewalk separated from the road by railings – he was hit by a car. The … Continue reading →

A letter in the WSJ from Mark Simon on the Jimmy Lai trial… Under China’s national-security law, the proceedings were a farce: hand-picked judges, no foreign lawyers, no jury. The city’s common-law heritage—which nominally rejected retroactivity in criminal law—was junked. … Continue reading →

In the New Statesman, Jonathan Sumption – former overseas member of the Court of Final Appeal – on the Jimmy Lai verdict. He blames the law, not the judges… Reading through this very long judgment (it runs to 855 pages), … Continue reading →

Eric Lai in the Diplomat… …the Lai verdict reveals something … troubling: local courts are endorsing authorities engaged in information manipulation about Lai and Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. The ruling represents more than just another conviction in a city where … Continue reading →

Answer: the G7… The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) today (December 18) strongly disapproves and objects to the slanders and smears by the foreign ministers of the G7, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United … Continue reading →

If Hong Kong law enforcement agencies were a small plumbing/electrician business, their motto would be ‘no job too small’. From HKFP… A Hong Kong man has pleaded guilty to one count of criminal damage after being accused of vandalising election … Continue reading →

After all the vitriolic mouth-frothing recently, let’s start with a pleasantly worded letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hong Kong office to the locally based overseas media… To help foreign media gain a more comprehensive understanding of the case, as the … Continue reading →

Jimmy Lai found guilty of endangering national security by colluding with foreign forces, and sedition. HKFP report. And all other HKFP stories on the case. There is no good publicity for Hong Kong in this – just a display of … Continue reading →