On August 23, a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman shouted “Hong Kong is part of China and its affairs are China’s internal affairs. We will not allow the U.S.…
Category: Hong Kong Protests
A recurring them one comes across reading about British thinking about Hong Kong is how vulnerable they felt. In World War II, for instance, the British and Commonwealth forces collapsed…
I went out to protest after the mask ban was announced on Friday and walked from Central to Causeway Bay with a scholar of social movements who was in Hong…
I’m inclined to view the mask ban as a high risk/high reward gamble by Beijing. I say Beijing instead of Lam because I don’t think she’s calling important shots like…
Whether one is reading Charles Tilly or Erica Chenoweth, the literature on social movements and resistance campaigns usually begin with a recognition that the state is not monolithic. Personally, I…
Much has been written about the comments, guidance, and threats from official (and unofficial) government leaders about how teachers and schools should deal with the ‘threat’ of independence activism in…
I’ve been struggling to make sense of what I see as the central contradiction of the ‘Xi’s Era’ – his focus, if not obsession, with ideology and ideological discipline. Let…
Where to begin? Maybe with the end of the night – which was now 7 am – sitting outside McDonalds about a mile from the ongoing riot. Sitting with a…
This is Part IV of Hong Kong and the Anti-Cosmopolitan Moment, a response to Ivan Krastev’s Why Did the ‘Twitter Revolutions’ Fail? Where Krastev is weakest is explaining the origins of…
This is Part III Hong Kong and the Anti-Cosmopolitan Moment, a response to Ivan Krastev’s Why Did the ‘Twitter Revolutions’ Fail? This has an ongoing intellectual journey for me. As…