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Pro-Beijing forces established significant influence at grass-roots level in Macau back in the 1960s, so the city never had a civil society and political activism on Hong Kong’s scale. But there were some pan-dems and workers’ rights groups. No more. … Continue reading →

RTHK is producing a new show in collaboration with Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po. A sample… Chief Executive John Lee has said Hong Kong role [sic] in the nation’s 15th Five-Year Plan has been “upgraded” – in what … Continue reading →

After being imprisoned for participating in the pan-dems’ 2020 primary elections, Joshua Wong now faces a second NatSec conviction for ‘collusion with foreign powers’… He is accused of conspiring with self-exiled activist Nathan Law and “other persons unknown” between July … Continue reading →

An RTHK story for those nostalgic for the old Hong Kong… Police on Monday said they have arrested 125 people over suspicions that a triad syndicate used intimidation, arson, criminal damage and other violent means to corner the lunch box … Continue reading →

Ryan Ho Kilpatrick on ‘Sinicization’, with reference to Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt and Hong Kong… …to treat Sinicization, in Communist Party parlance, as synonymous with Hanification, is to miss out on a crucial point. That is that, according to influential … Continue reading →

By Bangkok officials, at least. Thailand has 463 times the land area of Hong Kong, and a population nearly 10 times bigger – the kingdom has 363 people per square mile, versus Hong Kong’s 18,200. The kingdom’s nominal per capita … Continue reading →

The SCMP interviews Hongkongers spending the holiday across the border… …[Edward Wong said] that Hong Kong eateries, which often required table sharing and imposed dining time limits, were less competitive than their mainland counterparts. “Restaurants on the mainland are more … Continue reading →

HKFP reports the closure of Undergrad, the Hong Kong U student paper founded in 1952… …after failing to recruit enough members for its editorial board …  In a statement, the 2025 editorial board attributes the move to ‘the natural ebb … Continue reading →

From a book review by Ian Johnson in Foreign Affairs…  …the country’s own leaders implicitly doubt the very concept of their nation. Government officials and many ordinary people vehemently proclaim the sanctity of China’s borders, even as many of its … Continue reading →

HKFP reports a rare thing in Hong Kong these days: a demonstration. But it’s not anti-government. Well, it’s anti-UK government… The Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) on Tuesday protested against the jailing of retired police officer Bill Yuen, … Continue reading →