Election system breeds laxity in Legco
By Chris Yeung — Expectations were poles apart in Hong Kong and Beijing over the formation of a Legislative Council after the 2021 election was…
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All not quiet on national security front
By Chris Yeung — Three years after the Hong Kong national security law took effect, there have been no signs of an easing of…
The phantom of foreign forces lives on
By Chris Yeung — Former chief executive Leung Chun-ying said it. His successor Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-nor ditto. John Lee, their successor, also said it….
A hard Hong Kong story to sell
By Chris Yeung — To Nobel economics laureate Milton Friedman, Hong Kong was his favourite economy, or a kind of free-market utopia. The former British…
For whom the national security bell tolls
By Chris Yeung — Ching Hoi Hau (靖海侯) is not his real name. He is said to be a former journalist at a mainland official…
Change, not continuity, is Beijing’s new HK plan
By Chris Yeung — Much has been said about the importance of continuity in Beijing’s “one country, two systems” policy for Hong Kong. Horse-racing shall…
Hunt for HK activists goes global
By Chris Yeung — Just one day after the Hong Kong Police offered a bounty of HK$1 million for each arrest of eight wanted activists…
HK talks global, but walks inwards
By Chris Yeung — As Hong Kong entered the second half of its 50-year-old guarantee lifespan of “one country, two systems,” the contradictions between the…
The vanishing Hong Kong surveys
By Chris Yeung — About this time every year since 1997, a leading Hong Kong pollster has published findings of an annual survey about the…
Bao Choy victory a small consolation
By Chris Yeung — An unanimous ruling of Hong Kong’s final appellate court last week in favour of ex-RTHK journalist Bao Choy in her appeal…