Palace Museum a place of arts and politics
By Chris Yeung – By eliminating Leung Chun-ying from the upcoming chief executive race last month, Beijing is holding out hopes peace and harmony, in…
2017 CE race
Beijing sets tasks for next chief executive
By Chris Yeung – The 2017 chief executive race entered a new phase as a key mainland official in charge of Hong Kong affairs set…
How Leung loses his second term
By Chris Yeung – Flashed back to November 8, 2014, Day 42 of the Occupy Central movement. Chinese President Xi Jinping highly praised Chief Executive…
Chief executive with a sense of humour, please
By Kannas Wu – To ABC (Anyone But CY) supporters, Christmas came early this year. Two weeks before the festival, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying turned…
One election, two campaign fields
By Chris Yeung – Though coincidental, the contrast between the deeds and words of Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and John Tsang Chun-wah in the recent…
The chief executive race goes unscripted, for now
By Chris Yeung – Coming slightly more than three months before the March 26 Chief Executive election, Leung Chun-ying’s annual duty visit to Beijing this…
Carrie Lam vacillates on ‘run, or not to run’
By Chris Yeung – What are they waiting for? Retired judge Woo Kwok-hing has kept asking his would-be rivals to follow him after took the…
‘Tung embrace’ with Carrie Lam a blessing or a curse?
By Chris Yeung – Twenty years ago, the then Chinese President Jiang Zemin came forward towards a Hong Kong delegation to find Tung Chee-hwa, then…
The certainties and uncertainties of CE race
By Chris Yeung – Make no mistake. The shocking departure of Leung Chun-ying, now the outgoing Chief Executive, from the 2017 election does not mean…
Beijing jitters over Election Committee results
By Chris Yeung – Words from some quarters of the pro-establishment have there been that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying is almost certain to be given…